The aim of this paper is to make a comparative assessment of the industry organization in a selected number of European countries and understand the regulatory implications of the shifting of boundaries between market and public service domain. Using an institutional economic approach, focused...

Our main consideration here is to investigate the challenges and future prospects of the Greek Social Economy in light of the implementation of Law 4019/2011, the first ever on Social Economy and Social Entrepreneurship. Low administrative and academic visibility along with inherent...

The German water sector is still an exception area in terms of competition law. In contrast to other network industries like electricity or telecommunication almost no competition takes place in the German water supply, which is to a high degree organized in decentralized, small scaled, regional...

Avec l’apparition de nouvelles habitudes de consommation des populations, l’ensemble des villes algériennes doit faire face au phénomène d’une brusque augmentation des quantités de déchets produites. Une dégradation de l’environnement et un risque sur la santé publique en ont...

Since 1989 and the regionalization of public transports in Belgium, the Société des transports intercommunaux de Bruxelles (STIB), i.e. the public operator of urban transport in Brussels, has undergone many changes, both structural and organizational. Meanwhile, the company has managed to...

This is a study of the most important features of European agricultural cooperatives. It emphasises the business aspect as a key factor in their economic development. A cluster analysis is performed on them to classify them in relation to variables linked to their business aspect, especially its...

The Europeanisation of public services is frequently considered to have created pressure for Member States to progressively converge towards a new dominant organisational model, based on deregulation, de-integration and privatization. However, while in some sectors (eg. electricity,...

The paper investigates whether and to what extent European Community national legislators have decided to regulate accountability and transparency for financial and social reporting of social enterprises. The aim is to describe the basics of the outlined reporting systems, pointing out the...

Social economy initiatives are often considered as the most effective social inclusion strategy both in policy guidelines and academic discourse. In particular, social enterprises are expected to provide work integration for those furthest away from the labor market, to foster the development of...

From 1985 until 2009, water distribution service has been delegated to private operators in Paris. Starting from 2001, a progressive process of re-publicisation (in the sense of a reappropriation by the local authority of its role of organising authority) has been developed. It has led to the...