Cooperative and mutual companies belong to a social economy; they can (probably better than firms) take up new social issues, among them sustainable development. The principles adopted by cooperative and mutual companies lead to a better respect of social equity. Moreover, these organisations...

Social Economy and Sustainable economics are two independent fields that sometimes refer one to another. The former is primarily concerned with “social capital” issues, while the latter deal with “natural capital” stakes. When referring to the other field, there is no systematic analysis...

Contemporary society is characterized by a number of social problems that have multiple causes that range from structural weaknesses of purely individual factors. In the challenges of globalization phenomenon and in the context of sustainable development needs of humanity, the cooperative...

The current modern civilization and, in this context, the Romanian one, faces a great challenge in finding the most effective and practical methods of implying the human capital in the process of ensuring the eco-economic progress and the sustainable development one in which people to live in...

EU social economy takes a wide variety of national, regional, local, which does not prevent the formation of networks of social economy enterprises cooperation at national and European level. The dominant principle of social economy institutions is increasing scope of social responsibility...

Social economy must meet the challenge of facing the dangers of dilution or trivialization of its characteristic features that give specific social usefulness. To this end, the actors of social economy must become more aware of their common core values, use all the social and cultural means...

In recent years, we have observed how some companies have firmly stood by their commitment to sustainable development values. In this respect, there is an increasing interest in bringing about a change in the traditional method of company growth which has been favoured by those who, like Milton...