The economic literature highlighted that social capital within companies, seen as a good working climate, can increase production levels and residual claimant profit. In this paper we show that workers of social cooperatives, if observed by the team-reasoning theory point of view, can perform...

Over the past two decades nonprofits organizations have been urged to become more business-like in order to survive and grow, and to depart from the single-minded pursuit of their missions. This paper explores investment decisions of nonprofits under current US tax law, and specifically...

The paper analyzes the determinants of subjective well-being using data on the Cooperative Sociali Italiane Survey 2007. Aim of the work is to verify whether the genuine relationships among people and participation in activities with high social content may be qualified as essential components...

This work presents a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Italy including, for the first time, an economic account of the non-profit sector. The year it refers to is 1999. Once provided a statistical definition of the non-profit sector and how I include it in the framework, I then go on to set out...