When cooperatives were first invented, it was assumed their membership would be limited to one type of user. The Rochdale Pioneers favoured consumers, and employee representation was deliberately limited to a set percentage of board members. Similarly, Schulze Delitsch and Raiffeisen privileged...

This work is motivated by the question of how organisational governance can address the needs of vulnerable groups. This paper offers a conceptual reflection on how the production of complex health-related services, such as aspects of preventive psychiatric illnesses, can be governed to the...

This paper considers resource coordination in production systems featuring the presence of enterprises and organizations pursuing social, health-related, educational, cultural, and environmental aims, or social enterprises (SEs). The resource coordination problem is one of allocating and...

Italian Abstract: Il paper affronta il tema del possibile meccanismo di coordinamento che si può utilizzare per la produzione culturale, e in particolare per la cultura musicale. La nostra riflessione si colloca all’interno delle specifiche innovazioni istituzionali introdotte in Italia con...

Henry Hansmann has argued that ownership is best allocated to only one group of homogeneous patrons, the group for which the total of cost of governance and contracting is minimized. This paper suggests a different model of governance, which is inclusive of multiple affected patrons, and which...

Italian Abstract:Il working paper presenta risultati di una ricerca sul volontariato culturale e nello specifico analizza la natura delle bande e il loro ruolo all’interno della comunità trentina. I dati sono stati raccolti nel mese di agosto 2021 con un questionario originale indirizzato a...

The paper deals with the mediating role of immaterial satisfaction between substantive organizational substantive features, defined as resources by on-the-job autonomy, involvement, teamwork and workload pressure, and organizational performance, defined in terms of improvements in product...

The paper aims to analyze the theme of “shared administration”, recently affirmed within the Italian law reforming the third sector. This case has introduced a new mode of relationship between public administration and non-profit organizations engaged in the production of goods and services...