High mountain tourism poses a dilemma for an increasing number of those concerned due to the conflict between recreational enjoyment of the area, its economic exploitation and conservation of the fragile areas that will inevitably be affected by it. This is a particularly important issue in the...

The paper aims to deal with the problems of efficiency measurement of organisations managing state social services from the perspective of the corporate image they project to different social collectives, and particularly, users. Taking the initial hypothesis that management of state services in...

Theoretical debate about the nature of charitable foundations has traditionally become polarized around two distinct conceptual approaches: the non-profit or third sector approach, versus the social economy approach. This research tries to find a common ground between these two approaches, and...

After providing a socio-historical outline of the development of the Welfare State and the Third Sector, this article analyses and describes the nature, reconstitution and institutionalisation of the social Third Sector within the context of a reorganisation of the Welfare State that it has been...

The present paper is the result of teamwork, whose methodology and reference date (1995) were in turn coordinated with a transactional study under the guidance of John Hopkins University in Baltimore. This work made a quantitative assessment of the Spanish Non-profit Sector and found 253.507...

In this paper, we intend to analyze some scientific questions of current importance in the Social Economy field and Non-profit sector. In the first place, we show the growing economical importance of this field in Europe, based on the results obtained in the last transnational study. Secondly,...

The historical antecedents and the constitutional process of giving expression to the right of founding as a constitutionally protected right are analysed, subsequently entering into an analysis of the legal nature of the right to found, its possible limits and guarantees, its qualification as a...

Insertion enterprises are described as economic nature activities whose goal is the socio-economic insertion -by generating employment opportunities- for the so-called "social disabled people": ethnic minorities, immigrants, homeless, former convicts, former alcoholics and former drug addicts....

The evolution of the Social Economy concept over the last 30 years is analyzed in this article, both from the point of view of its own protagonists and its presence in scientific, specialized literature. Together with the Social Economy concept, the non-profit sector concept is also analyzed as...

This paper is based on the fact that foundations need to end their isolation, via accountability and practising social responsibility. This task can be accomplished using the social balance, which is defined as the ideal instrument for communication between foundations and the Administrations...