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Purpose This study aims to understand the social cooperative model's empowerment and social cohesion impacts based on … the case of a cooperative with the partnership of local and refugee women in southern Türkiye to give evidence for the … impact of cooperatives on their members and the wider community. Findings The social cooperative economically empowers women …
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cooperative banks by examining other variables that have never been used before. It also seeks to examine bank performance before … and during the economic crisis in Greece. The survey is based on previous similar research. Design … cost efficiency; and cooperative banks in general at the beginning of the crisis were less influenced by the economic …
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touristischen Entwicklung auf Lesbos (Griechenland), insbesondere unter den Gesichtspunkten der Strategien zur Regionalisierung der … Lesvos (Greece). It is focusing on the strategies for regionalization of food: labeling of regional products and creating of …
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/methodology/approach This paper shows what followed from a decision of a researcher to do an ethnography of a co-working cooperative established … despite its failure in the form of a bankruptcy, the co-working cooperative succeeded in enabling “social innovation” in the …
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in the north-west of England, a small food cooperative run by volunteers. Social capital comprises the bonds, bridges and … interactions between and within the three main stakeholder groups involved in the cooperative is presented. This model shows how …
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Abstract This article describes the recent changes in the political, cultural and socioeconomic environment of the third sector (TS) in Portugal in the context of crisis and structural adjustment. Belatedly, when compared to many other countries, an overall sector is being structured in...
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Purpose With the aim of finding a balance between social and economic benefits, the social economy has reemerged in the crisis of the welfare state. The Fordist welfare state can be characterized by state-provided welfare, the mediation of paid work and welfare by the labor market and...
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Purpose – The aim of this paper is to evaluate critically the extensively used social versus commercial entrepreneurship dualism that depicts these as entirely discrete realms possessing distinct and separate logics. Design/methodology/approach – To challenge this dichotomous representation...
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. Design/methodology/approach – This exploratory study uses feedback from participants on open access co‐operative and social … worker co‐operative, a trading charity and a self‐employed consultant) in order of likelihood of obtaining the SEM. Findings …, and design new wealth sharing arrangements. Originality/value – The paper suggests there has been a shift away from the co‐operative …
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Purpose This purpose of this paper is to concern with the extent to which social economies can be constructed as alternatives to private and state markets and their purported neoliberal tendencies. Design/methodology/approach The paper presents a meta-evaluation of an integrated set of projects...
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