Since the 19th century, co-operatives have served their members through a system of mutual benefits between members and organisations, aggregating homogeneous stakeholders. What are the reasons for this change? This study reviews the relevant literature, taking an historical institutional...

After several years of economic crisis, people are increasingly demanding more socially responsible economic activities rather than speculation, and better distribution of social wealth. This structural crisis is encouraging some groups to use their common resources to self-organise local...

Since the 19th century co-operatives have operated for their members' prosperity by promoting economic activities in different fields. This paper seeks to analyse how community co-ops are modifying the traditional co-op structure in order to address new social issues. why do these co-ops also...

During the last years, the regeneration of spaces and buildings inside cities has become an important issue, which involves public governments, private actors and the third sector. The failure of neoliberal market-oriented models, as a tool against social exclusion, has led to the re-thinking of...

During the last years, the regeneration of spaces and buildings inside cities has become an important issue, which involves public governments, private actors and the third sector. The failure of neoliberal market-oriented models, as a tool against social exclusion, has led to the re-thinking of...

This article focuses its attention on inner cities and asks questions about their possible redevelopment. How can an urban regeneration project improve its social innovation effects? We argue that community-led enterprises with social values can drastically improve social innovation in urban...

Italian Abstract: I profondi cambiamenti economici che hanno caratterizzato gli ultimi anni sono stati studiati sotto molti punti di vista da diversi accademici. La rigenerazione urbana ha suscitato molto interesse, in particolare il tema dell’innovazione sociale (Moulaert e Vicari, 2009;...

In this paper we derive closed-form solutions for the cumulative density function and the average value-at-risk for five subclasses of the infinitely divisible distributions: classical tempered stable distribution, Kim-Rachev distribution, modified tempered stable distribution, normal tempered...

In 2013 Chinese government unveiled one of the biggest transport plan schemes worldwide: the One Belt One Road (OBOR) strategy, now called the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This scheme includes the development of a group of specific transport and logistics corridors that encompass three...