The relation with all stakeholders, especially the main ones, is fraught with resources and management problems. It is thus necessary to find the assets best suited to pursuit the mission, initiating and fostering the potential benefits that can come from interacting with the social foundations of the organization. Euricse helps… Read More
This paper considers the fact that it is not always clear whether cooperative banks’ members have the proper incentives to actively participate in making decisions that relate to bank strategies and policies. Read More
This paper suggests a framework to assess coordination structures and mechanisms in terms of their ability to include the publics and their interests, and to generate socio-economic value consistently with those interests. Read More
This paper offers a conceptual reflection on how the production of complex health-related services, such as the prevention aspects of psychiatric illness, can be governed for the benefit of users and society at large. Read More
The article aims to explore some specific aspects of governance of worker cooperatives, with particular reference to the participation of the worker member in the management of the enterprise. Read More
The researchers, collaborators of Euricse, Silvia Sacchetti (Open University Business School, UK) and Ermanno Tortia (University of Trento, Italy) published an article in the most recent issue of “Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics” (Volume 87, Issue 1, 2016) entitled "The extended governance of cooperative firms: inter-firm coordination and consistency of values”. Read More
The governing bodies of the Institute The President is elected by the Board of Institutional Members based on a nomination by the Rector of the University of Trento. The President convenes and presides over the Board of Institutional Members, the Steering Committee and the Management Committee and is… Read More
Building on evidence from the literature, the paper systematises and highlights some of the potential problems in the governance of cooperative firms concerning the accomplishment of cooperative mutualistic aims. In exploring the internal conditions that may affect cooperative performance, we focus in particular on the role of rules and incentives towards such aims. Read More
The goal of this paper is to apply the theory of commons to residential contexts and verify if and how collective institutions can be used to produce habitability, i.e. a set of particular socio-environmental conditions conducive to inhabiting a particular area. While most literature on the study of the commons has a specific focus on the management of natural resources, this paper argues that collective institutions can work also in urban contexts. Read More
In 2008, Legacoopservizi member cooperatives approved a governance code. This study measures the degree to which the code has been disseminated 2 years after its approval in 49 service cooperatives with a turnover of more than 25 million euros. The study focuses on the rules for admitting new members and how the board of directors is elected and composed. Read More
A delegation of representatives, managers and directors of cooperative credit banks from Ecuador is participating in the international training with industry experts centered on the topics of cooperation, social economy and cooperative credit. Read More
This report focuses on the study of Community Enterprises in Italy, with particular attention to their development over the past two years, analyzing their territorial and organizational characteristics. Read More