The study, part of a broader research on user cooperatives in local public services, focuses on case studies conducted through open interviews integrated with chamber data and information on cooperative budgets. Read More
The study, part of a broader research on user cooperatives in local public services, focuses on case studies conducted through open interviews integrated with chamber data and information on cooperative budgets. The sectors analyzed are energy, water services and telecommunications. Read More
The aim of this report is to analyze the legal framework concerning the withdrawal of members in cooperative societies, examining the reasons for withdrawal and the role of statutory autonomy, in order to assess criteria and methods for regulating this practice, including the implementation of withdrawal policies within the cooperative system. Read More
The aim of this report is to reconsider the role of cooperatives in the context of the liberalization of public services, examining their suitability as an organizational form and analyzing Italian and European experiences in the sector. Read More
The aim of the conference is to point out experiences of cooperatives and social economic organizations on creativity and innovation. For that, the conference wants to bring together researchers, policy makers and practitioners from different cooperative and social economic fields and from different countries to debate about the amazing creativity that cooperatives harness to innovate and to develop new solutions for their members. Read More
The International Handbook of Cooperative Law has just been published. The book represents a fundamental instrument for training and research, especially comparative, in the area of cooperative law. Read More
On November 17th-18th, Italy launches a participatory and policy-oriented conference on Social Economy. Read More
Cape Town, November 2013. The International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) - with the scientific and technical support of Euricse - launches the 2013 report of its global statistical project: The World Co-operative Monitor. In this new edition the Report have been enriched with a new feature: a ranking list based on ratio turnover on the gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. Read More
The World Co-operative Monitor is a project designed to develop a ranking of the biggest co-operatives and mutual organizations worldwide based not only on turnover but also on social value.The 2014 report was officially released at the International Summit of Co-operatives on October 8th, 2014. Read More
This volume is published in collaboration with Area Studi Confcooperative and Centro Studi Legacoop. It portrays the Italian cooperation sector during the period 2008- 2011 and it provides a comparison with other forms of enterprises and several in-depht analysis of the different economic sectors. Read More
El objetivo del estudio fue comprender la dinámica organizativa y el potencial de las organizaciones de base de recolección de residuos en el área metropolitana de Santiago de Chile para pasar de una situación de informalidad, asociada a la idea de economía popular, a la capacidad de incorporarse como organizaciones más estructuradas en el contexto de la economía social y solidaria. Read More
The cooperative movement underwent in 2012 a renewed impulse with the declaration of the “International Year of Cooperatives”. In this paper we present the results of the interviews conducted with international experts of the sector, who belong to national organizations following the Delphi methodology. Read More