Managers play a key rôle in Social Economy corporate governance and can determine the path that these companies will take. This article analyses the theoretical aspects underlying the central rôle of managers in Social Economy enterprises, the nature of these strategic human resources,...

This article continues an article written by the same author and published by CIRIEC-España in 1997 (no. 25). It analyses social economy at three cognitive levels: first, as a social reality (Social Economy); second, as a scientific discipline which studies its previous reality (the science of...

This paper aims to address the theoretical basis of public policies related to cooperatives and to social economy in general. To this end, strong justifications are found in the economic theory of market and institutional failures and externalities. On the other hand, it assesses and classifies...