For decades, the cooperative enterprise (CE) produces market goods and/or provides
services in the interest to its members, such as communities, customers, and suppliers. The …

The cooperative organizational form is by nature a sustainable one, which has proved to be
resilient in the face of crises and a solid lever in addressing present-day societal challenges …

We contribute to the social innovation debate, integrating the social entrepreneurship and
cooperative-network innovation fields, by investigating the effect of product, technological …

The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between economic and social
performance in an organizational context. We perform a meta-analysis to test this …

Although the public debate tends to privilege investor-owned organisations, alternative
forms of organisation are mushrooming at the borders of the capitalist economy. In this work …

This paper provides an analysis of the performance of European packaging waste systems,
focusing on Extended Producer Responsibility schemes and Producer Responsibility …

Although scholars of the nonprofit sector have looked at the theoretical implications of social
enterprises (SEs), more details and clarification are desirable. In particular, most previous …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the financial structure of Italian cooperatives
in the period before and during the crisis (2004-2013), in relation to two discriminating …

This article aims at delivering new theoretical interpretation and quantitative evidence
concerning the emergence and development of social enterprises (SEs) in Italy. Where the …

A multiple factor analysis is developed to assess the differences in the economic
performance and employment levels of social cooperatives in three main geographical …