The Italian region Emilia-Romagna ranks first among the world's most important cooperative districts. Using a unique … focusing on employment, revenue and profits of cooperative firms as compared to conventional firms, we disentangle the … role of cooperative firms: they seem to optimize a mixture of employment and profits, assigning a greater weight to the …

In Italy, social cooperatives are an economic reality that is constantly expanding and plays an increasing role in the …

The numerous studies made of the persistence of the co-operative movement during the course of the 20th century, have … efficiency is linked with “culture,” I wish to examine the cultural components of the Italian co-operative movement which emerged … could generate high per capita welfare expenditure. Indeed, such indicator would seem to be closely linked to co-operative …