Despite the growing interest in cooperative enterprise, our knowledge of the real economic, social, and employment size of the cooperative movement, both internationally and within individual countries, is scarce and fragmentary. In Italy over the years, a number of public bodies, institutions,...

Italian Abstract: La convinzione che le cooperative godano di elevate e ingiustificate agevolazioni fiscali è assai diffusa sia tra i policy maker che tra gli operatori economici. E sono in molti a ritenere che si tratti di privilegi ingiustificati che causano situazioni di concorrenza sleale e...

Italian Abstract: Da qualche tempo i media, gli attori sociali e gli amministratori pubblici stanno dedicando una particolare attenzione alle difficoltà del sistema cooperativo trentino, ma con una tendenza a soffermarsi su specifiche realtà, senza affrontare invece la questione in termini...

In the last twenty years, the interest of researchers, policy makers, national and international institutions and society in general has been growing in organizations and enterprises set up and managed in a participatory manner by non-investor actors and whose object is not the profit but rather...

1. The economics of social enterprises : an interpretive framework / Carlo Borzaga and Ermanno Tortia -- 2. The competitive advantages of social enterprises / Sara Depedri -- 3. The impact of social enterprises on output, employment, and welfare / Ermanno Tortia -- 4. From economic growth to...

The paper aims to study the organizational structure, namely the integration developed among social cooperatives in Italy over their thirty years of history. In addition to organizing political and trade union representation, the social cooperation movement has felt the need to develop a system...