”. Therefore main characteristics of co-operative companies are: capital variability and most of all the pursuit of a mutual … purpose. The cooperative company, while pursuing a mutual purpose, carries out in any case a business activity. Lawmakers has … intervened at various times on the financial structure of cooperative companies, providing access to increasingly articulated …

Italy, community co-operatives are emerging as bottom-up initiatives for local commons preservation and use, regeneration of … multiple site visits and interviews of cooperative members conducted throughout 2018. The paper considers three case studies in … different sectors and regions of Italy, with an eye toward their efficacy for implementing the SDGs …