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The paper reveals a relevant dimension of social economy in Europe: cooperatives. Like many other types of enterprise, cooperatives face the challenge of finding the most efficient means to distribute insufficient resources. But contrasting most other enterprises, cooperatives also need to seek...
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The aim of the work presented here is to show how the problems of organisation and power represent a serious hindrance on the business development of agricultural co-operatives. It should be pointed out that this work is based on a field study which focuses on studying cooperativism in firms...
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Even if the ‘social economy’ has traditionally been marginalized and a subordinated form of production within capitalist societies, the economic, social, territorial and environmental problems of the present times have tended to make it a strategic instrument. This is not only because of its...
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Economic literature first turned its attention to the co-operative movement in the period of the flowering of classical political economics. From then on and to the present day, co-operatives have aroused the interest of the different currents of economic thought. In this article we review the...
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There has been a considerable growth in legal research on the social economy over the last twenty years. The purpose of this article is to present some of the most important aspects of this work, referring to the key areas of research covered and future trends. We have grouped the subjects being...
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The evolution of the Social Economy concept over the last 30 years is analyzed in this article, both from the point of view of its own protagonists and its presence in scientific, specialized literature. Together with the Social Economy concept, the non-profit sector concept is also analyzed as...
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related to a density of links, raises the problem of owner associate in a corporate governance. …
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seen as trends that lean towards democracy. We could classify participation in profits and various collective incentive … mechanisms (through profits or shares) as tendencies with a slant towards economic participation. Quality circles and total … and trends due to their particular emphasis on achieving the objectives of social and economic participation. By assuming …
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social commitments among companies. Shareholders activism has succeeded in introducing corporate governance and corporate …
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Entities of the Social Economy are ruled by practices of collective action and democratic participation within the … framework of what is known as good governance. This is based on a set of values and principles belonging to the organisations … between said good governance practices and business results by means of a literature study, finally formulating a theoretical …
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