Project status: on-going Description Research about social and community enterprises is linked to the broader theme of the co-production of public services or public utilities and the participatory management of community goods. This theme has recently taken on new relevance with the increasing tendency to delegate the direct… Read More
Following the Pre-conference forum, the 5th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise “Building a scientific field to foster social enterprise eco-system” has officially started today with the plenary session “Social Enterprise and the third sector: Changing landscapes in an international perspective” chaired by Marthe Nyssens, founding member of the EMES European Research Network and Professor at the University of Louvain. Read More
The International Co-operative Alliance’s 2015 global conference is the platform for co-operators to stay on top of developments and take best practices home. Co-operatives need to continue to affirm and communicate their leadership as socially embedded and sustainable enterprises. Sustainability is one of the focal points of the conference, together with participation, identity, access to capital and legal frameworks. Read More
Centri di servizio per il volontariato (CSVs) are volunteer support centres established by the framework law on volunteering (Italian Law 266/91). Their function is to provide support and training to voluntary organizations, and they have been conceived as institutions that manage regional funds in the interest of voluntary organizations. Read More
This research sprung out of the practitioner forums (known in Italian as Cantieri, “building sites”), run by Euricse, and specifically the cooperative credit practitioner forum. The group’s objective was to define what makes a “Buona Cassa Rurale” (good cooperative bank) and what are the parameters on which cooperative banks should work in order to respect all of their objectives and principles, both those relating to banking and to their cooperative nature. Read More
The aim of this research project was to evaluate the ability of a large consumer cooperative (COOP) to promote internal participation by members and to attract volunteer members, involving and satisfying them and inspiring loyalty through the policy of making members active by introducing the figure of the “elected volunteer member”. Read More
Taking consumer cooperatives as its subject, this research project focused on the issues of attention towards members and attention towards the community, with the aim of delving into the mutual nature versus the social role that consumer cooperatives perform in their local areas. Read More