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2023, Volume 12, Issue 2
- 1-6 Editorial: Cooperative Firms, Participatory Culture, and Contemporary Challenges. Essays in Honour of Johnston Birchall
by Silvia Sacchetti & Lou Hammond Ketilson & Carlo Borzaga - 7-32 Institutional Design and Cooperative Success: The Case of Producer Cooperatives
by Derek C. Jones - 33-55 Platform Cooperatives and Poverty Eradication: Building on the Legacy of Johnston Birchall
by Morshed Mannan & Simon Pek & Trebor Scholz - 56-72 Social Resources and Cooperative Resilience: Findings from the Canadian Cooperative Sector During the COVID-19 Pandemic
by Anne-Marie Merrien & JosŽe Charbonneau & Iva Jankovic & Sonja Novkovic & Fiona Duguid & Claude-AndrŽ Guillotte & ƒtienne Fouquet - 73-98 Employee-Owned BusinessesÕ Responses During the Pandemic: Economic, Non-Economic Goal and Democratic Resilience and Their Link to Ownership, Control and Benefit
by Juliette Summers & Boyka Bratanova - 99-115 Cooperative Membership and Strategizing in a Korean Consumer Cooperative Network: The Case of iCOOP
by Sumi Cho & Seungkwon Jang
2023, Volume 12, Issue 1
- 1-24 Increasing Scale and Impact in a Brazilian Social Entrepreneurial Initiative
by Bruna Lessa Bastos & Georgina M. G—mez - 25-55 Entrepreneuring in Diverse Neighbourhoods: Policies and Minority Business in Copenhagen, Istanbul, Milan and Warsaw
by Eduardo Barberis & Ayda Eraydin & Rikke Skovgaard Nielsen & Ewa Korcelli-Olejniczak - 56-74 How Do Cooperatives Support Their Members in Managing Aquaculture Risks? The Case Study of the Northern Coastal Provinces of Vietnam
by Thi Thu Hang Ngo & Lan Phuong Mai & Huu Cuong Tran & Philippe Lebailly - 75-84 Doing Transdisciplinary Action Research: A Critical Assessment of an Italian Lab-Like Sustainable Food Initiative
by Michela Giovannini & Francesca Forno - 85-89 Enrica Chiappero Martinetti (Ed.): La sfida dellÕuguaglianza. Democrazia economica e futuro del capitalismo [The challenge of equality. Economic democracy and the future of capitalism]
by Renata Targhetti Lenti - 90-117 Contesting Ownership: Employee-Ownership, Staff Participation in the English Care Sector
by Aaron Lee Gain & …dŸl Bozkurt
2022, Volume 11, Issue 1
- 1-22 Challenges to the Development of Work Integration Social Enterprises in Latvia
by Lasma Licite-Kurbe - 23-54 Participatory Bureaucracy: Addressing Gender Inequality in Worker Cooperatives
by Joan S. M. Meyers - 55-81 The Influence of Board Diversity and Board Conflict on Performance in Consumer Cooperatives in South Korea
by Sun-Hee Lee & Hyun-Ju Kang & Sang-Youn Lee - 82-85 15th International Conference of the International Society for Third-Sector Research (ISTR)
by Youngrok Kim & Elizabeth Searing - 86-89 Morris Altman, Anthony Jensen, Akira Kurimoto, Robby Tulus, Yashavantha Dongre and Seungkwon Jang (Eds.): Waking the Asian Pacific Co-operative Potential
by Hyungsik Eum
2021, Volume 10, Issue 2
- 1-28 Does the Share of Female Managers Affect the Firm's Geographic Spread? Evidence from the UK
by Panagiotis Fouskas & Federica D'Isanto - 29-53 Scaling Co-operatives Through a Multi-Stakeholder Network: A Case Study in the Colorado Solar Energy Industry
by Julia Martins Rodrigues & Nathan Schneider - 54-70 COVID-19, Co-production and Governance of Japanese Healthcare Providers
by Victor Pestoff & Yayoi Saito - 71-76 Social Network Analysis at the 2021 Annual Conference of the Italian Society for Economic Sociology (SISEC)
by Federico Bianchi & Niccolò Casnici & Antonello Podda - 77-82 David Ellerman: Neo-Abolitionism: Abolishing Human Rentals in Favor of Workplace Democracy
by Ermanno C. Tortia
2021, Volume 10, Issue 1
- 1-21 Entrepreneurial Intermediation in Innovation: A Study of Multilayered Contexts and Embedded Dynamics of Organisation-Creation
by Niels Arvid Sletterod & Espen Carlsson & Daniel Hjorth - 22-47 Exploring Local Dynamics of COVID-19 in Italy: Local Labour Markets and the Cases of Bergamo and Brescia
by Marco Lomuscio - 48-72 Ontologies of Employee Ownership: A Comparative Analysis of Trust-Owned, Directly-Owned and Cooperatively-Owned Enterprises
by David Wren & Rory Ridley-Duff - 73-83 Social Enterprises and COVID-19: Navigating between Difficulty and Resilience
by Carlo Borzaga & Giulia Tallarini - 84-87 CIRIEC World Conference in Latin America: Social and solidarity economy as an inclusive, sustainable and resilient development model in a post-COVID-19 world
by Leandro Pereira Morais & Daniel Francisco Nagao Menezes - 88-91 Victor Pestoff: Co-production and Japanese Healthcare: Work Environment, Governance, Service Quality and Social Values
by Francesca Pennucci
2020, Volume 9, Issue 2
- 1-22 Cultural Third Sector Organizations and Local Development: New Actors and Tools for Urban Regeneration in Deprived Contexts
by Angelo Laudiero - 23-44 Social Enterprises and Welfare Systems. The Role of Multi-stakeholder Governance and Price Discrimination
by Ermanno Celeste Tortia & Carlo Borzaga - 45-61 The Usefulness of Sharing Social Impact Data. Early Findings from an International Benchmarking on SROI Assessments
by Luigi Corvo & Lavinia Pastore - 62-65 Academy of Korean Studies International Conference: Reciprocity in Comparison: Spain, Vietnam, Italy, and Korea
by Do-Hyun Han - 66-70 Eric Bidet and Jacques Defourny (Eds.): Social Enterprise in Asia: Theory, Models and Practice
by Bok Gyo Jeong
2020, Volume 9, Issue 1
- 1-25 Exploring the History of the First Social Enterprise Type: Social Co-Operation in the Italian Welfare System and its Replication in Europe, 1970s to 2011
by Alberto Ianes - 26-44 Social and Relational Variables in Worker Cooperatives: Implications for the Objective Function
by Marina Albanese - 45-61 Advancing the Theory of Cooperative Organization: Interrogating the Developing Country Perspectives
by Manas Ranjan Bhowmik - 62-68 Empower-SE COST Action International Research Workshop: Towards and enabling ecosystem for social enterprises
by Mihaela Lambru - 69-74 Janelle A. Kerlin (Ed.): Shaping Social Enterprise: Understanding Institutional Context and Influence
by Simone Poledrini
2019, Volume 8, Issue 2
- 1-26 Management Education in a Public University in the Economic Periphery: Reflections in Action on UBC in Interior British Columbia
by Roger Sugden - 27-45 Relationships on the Job and Work-Related Stress within the Third Sector in Europe
by Nunzia Nappo - 46-70 The Knowledge-based Agricultural Cooperative: A Validation from the Trentino Case
by Eddi Fontanari & Silvia Sacchetti - 71-76 ISCTE-IUL 2019 International Conference: Social Solidarity Economy and the Commons - Contributions to the Deepening of Democracy
by Alessandra Piccoli & Jacopo Sforzi - 77-79 Dennis R. Young, Elizabeth A.M. Searing, and Cassady Brewer (Ed.): The Social Enterprise Zoo: A Guide for Perplexed Scholars, Entrepreneurs, Philanthropists, Leaders, Investors, and Policymakers
by Gordon Shockley
2019, Volume 8, Issue 1
- 1-21 Renewing the City through Public Participation and Cultural Activities. The Case Study of Gillet Square, a Community-Led Urban Regeneration Project
by Michele Bianchi - 22-41 Democratic Governance Mechanisms in Cooperative Banks: A Reassessment
by Mitja Stefancic & Silvio Goglio & Ivana Catturani - 42-64 Does Online Accessibility, as a Transparency Mechanism, Play the Same Role in Private and Public Nonprofit Organizations?
by Francisco J. López-Arceiz & Lourdes Torres & Ana J. Bellostas - 65-83 Structure and Performance of Italian Cooperatives: A Quantitative Analysis Based on Combined Use of Official Data
by Carlo Borzaga & Manlio Calzaroni & Chiara Carini & Massimo Lori - 84-87 The Annual Conference of the Italian Society for Law and Economics (ISLE)
by Ermanno Tortia
2018, Volume 7, Issue 2
- 1-18 Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship in Early Childhood Education and Care. Lessons from Three Case Studies of Innovative Services in Emilia-Romagna, Italy
by Andrea Bassi - 19-38 Is the Appointee Procedure a Real Selection or a Mere Political Exchange? The Case of the Italian Health-Care Chief Executive Officers
by Roberta Troisi & Vittorio Guida - 39-61 The Legal Nature of Cooperative Membership
by Ville Pönkä - 62-86 The Business Transfer through the Cooperative Model. A Comparative Analysis Italy-France
by Cristina Di Stefano - 87-100 The Comparative Advantages of Single and Multi-Stakeholder Cooperatives: Reflections for a Research Agenda
by Silvia Sacchetti & Johnston Birchall - 101-107 Book Review. Marco Migliorelli (Ed.): New Cooperative Banking in Europe. Strategies for Adapting the Business Model Post Crisis
by Giovanni Ferri
2018, Volume 7, Issue 1
- 1-13 Editorial: Background and Further Perspectives on Social Innovation in Social Enterprises
by Simone Poledrini & Florence Degavre & Ermanno Tortia - 14-36 The Implications of Schumpeter’s Theories of Innovation for the Role, Organisation and Impact of Community-Based Social Enterprise in Three European Countries
by Nick Bailey & Reinout Kleinhans & Jessica Lindbergh - 37-60 Navigating between Opportunities and Risks: The Effects of Hybridity for Social Enterprises Engaged in Social Innovation
by Philip Marcel Karré - 61-87 The Janus face of participatory governance: How inclusive governance benefits and limits the social innovativeness of social enterprises
by Ralph Richter - 88-110 The No TAV Entrepreneurs’ Transition towards a Sustainable Solidarity Economy: Pragmatic Analysis of a Social Innovation Process
by Marina Soubirou - 111-113 Book Review Christian Seelos and Johanna Mair: Innovation and Scaling for Impact. How Effective Social Enterprises Do It
by Andrew Brady
2017, Volume 6, Issue 2
- 2-19 Workers’ Propensity to Make a Monetary Sacrifice in Favour of Colleagues or People from the General Population: A Comparison based on an Artefactual Field Experiment
by Giacomo Degli Antoni - 20-39 No Heir apparent? Exploring the Worker Co-operative Model as a Solution to Family Business Continuity
by Linda Murphy & Olive McCarthy & Bridget Carroll - 40-66 How Employment Responds to Changes in Assets at US Banks and Credit Unions
by Derek C. Jones & Jeffrey Pliskin & Matthew Poterba - 67-74 World Co-operative Monitor. Key Findings from the 2017 Edition
by Ilana Gotz - 75-79 International Co-operative Alliance Global Conference and General Assembly: The Topics at the Centre of the International Dialogue
by Gianluca Salvatori - 80-82 Book review Jonathan Michie, Joseph R. Blasi and Carlo Borzaga (Eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Mutual, Co-operative and Co-owned Business
by Riccardo Bodini
2017, Volume 6, Issue 1
- 1-9 Editorial: Community-Based, Collaborative Solutions to Sustainable Economic Development in and around Biosphere Reserves
by Silvia Sacchetti & Colin Campbell - 10-32 Biosphere Reserves: An “Enabling Space” for Communities
by Silvia Sacchetti & Colin Campbell - 33-48 The Community Enterprises of the Appennino Tosco-Emiliano UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, Italy: Biodiversity Guardians and Sustainable Development Innovators
by Giovanni Teneggi & Flaviano Zandonai - 49-68 Linking Social and Ecological Sustainability: An Analysis of Livelihoods and the Changing Natural Resources in the Middle Zambezi Biosphere Reserve
by Alexio Mbereko & Olga Laiza Kupika & Edson Gandiwa - 69-78 Social Economy in UNESCO Biosphere Reserves. A Multiperspective and Complexity Approach
by Magnus Fredricson & Johanna Mactaggart
2016, Volume 5, Issue 1
- 1-19 On the Advantages of a System of Labour-managed Firms
by Bruno Jossa - 20-32 Worker Cooperatives as Based on First Principles
by David Ellerman - 33-53 Social and Solidarity Economy in a Neoliberal Context: Transformative or Palliative? The Case of an Argentinean Worker Cooperative
by Paola Raffaelli - 54-78 The 1980s Worker Co-operative Buyout Experience in Australia. Learning from Praxis
by Anthony Jensen - 79-98 Challenging the Degeneration Thesis: the Role of Democracy in Worker Cooperatives?
by Kiri Langmead - 99-101 Book review - Peter Utting (Ed.): Social and Solidarity Economy beyond the Fringe
by Giulia Galera
December 2015, Volume 4, Issue 2
- 1-21 Effectuating Person-Organization Fit - Effectuation in Organizations
by Reija A. Häkkinen - 26-63 The Advantages of Association: Know-How Sharing and Innovation Adoption in Four Brazilian Cities
by Isleide Zissimos - 64-97 Cooperation among Cooperatives in Italian and Comparative Law
by Antonio Fici
February 2015, Volume 4, Issue 2
- 98-115 Property rights and efficiency in the care sector. Evidence from Italy
by Sergio Destefanis & Ornella W. Maietta
August 2015, Volume 4, Issue 1
- 1-10 Editorial: The Cooperative Advantage for Community Development
by Marcelo Vieta & Doug Lionais - 11-27 Conventional Consumer Cooperatives and Local Foods: A Case Study from Cape Breton, Canada
by Alicia Lake & Catherine Leviten-Reid - 28-51 The Cooperative Advantage for Social Inclusion Meets Uncooperative Government Regulation: International Cooperative Principles and Cooperative Housing Regulation in the Province of Ontario, Canada
by Marika Morris - 52-74 Realizing the Cooperative Advantage at the Atkinson Housing Co-operative: The Role of Community Development to Improve Public Housing
by Jorge Sousa - 75-103 Argentina’s Worker-Recuperated Enterprises, 2010- 2013: A Synthesis of Recent Empirical Findings
by Andrés Ruggeri & Marcelo Vieta - 104-120 Renewable Energy Cooperatives: A Review of Demonstrated Impacts and Limitations
by Mumtaz Derya Tarhan - 121-152 Indigenous Cooperatives in Canada: The Complex Relationship Between Cooperatives, Community Economic Development, Colonization, and Culture
by Ushnish Sengupta - 153-169 Cooperatives and Civil Society: Potential for Local Cooperative Development in Croatia
by Sonja Novkovic & Tea Golja
February 2015, Volume 3, Issue 2
- 32-48 Creating Space for Communities: Social Enterprise and the Bright Side of Social Capital
by Silvia Sacchetti & Colin Campbell - 49-74 Determinants and Consequences of On-the-job Relationships: an Empirical Analysis of Italian Social Cooperatives
by Sara Depedri
December 2014, Volume 3, Issue 2
- 1-6 BOOK REVIEW: Dante Cracogna, Antonio Fici, and Hagen Henrÿ (Eds.): International Handbook of Cooperative Law
by Giustino Di Cecco - 7-13 Facts and Stereotypes about Cooperative Banks: To Whom Do CBs Actually Lend?
by Ivana Catturani & Carlo Borzaga
June 2014, Volume 3, Issue 1
- 1-8 Editorial: Cooperative Banks at a Turning Point?
by Silvio Goglio & Yiorgos Alexopoulos - 11-33 Features, Facts and Figures of European Cooperative Banking Groups over Recent Business Cycles
by Hans Groeneveld - 35-55 Organizational Structure and Exposure to Crisis among European Banks: Evidence from Rating Changes
by Giovanni Ferri & Panu Kalmi & Eeva Kerola - 57-85 Did the Extent of Hybridization Better Enable Cooperative Banking Groups to Face the Financial Crisis?
by Yasmina Lemzeri - 89-103 Soft Information and Default Prediction in Cooperative and Social Banks
by Simon Cornée - 111-129 Loan Loss Provisioning and Relationship Banking in Italy: Practices and Empirical Evidence
by Matteo Alessi & Stefano Di Colli & Juan Sergio Lopez - 131-163 Investigating Management Turnover in Italian Cooperative Banks
by Mitja Stefancic - 167-180 A Model for the Interest Margin of a Risk-Neutral Bank. The Role of the Bank Orientation
by Marco Pedrotti - 181-199 Optimal Interest Rates in Cooperative Banks with Non-member Customers
by Ivana Catturani & Ragupathy Venkatachalam
June 2013, Volume 2, Issue 2
- 48-60 The Role of Participatory Governance in the EMES Approach to Social Enterprise
by Victor Pestoff
May 2013, Volume 2, Issue 2
- 11-33 Social Co-operatives: When Social Enterprises Meet the Co-operative Tradition
by Jacques Defourny & Marthe Nyssens - 34-47 Worker Cooperatives: Good, Sustainable Jobs in the Community
by Virginie Pérotin
January 2013, Volume 2, Issue 2
- 1-10 All firms are cooperatives – and so are governments
by Henry Hansmann
September 2013, Volume 2, Issue 1
- 101-121 Natural resource management: the role of cooperative institutions and governance
by Konrad Hagedorn
May 2013, Volume 2, Issue 1
- 1-22 The potential of co-operatives during the current recession; theorizing comparative advantage
by Johnston Birchall - 23-36 Agricultural cooperatives
by Ermanno C. Tortia & Vladislav Valentinov & Constantine Iliopoulos
July 2013, Volume 2, Issue 1
- 37-53 Competition rules and the cooperative firm
by Michele Grillo
August 2013, Volume 2, Issue 1
- 54-74 Customer ownership of public utilities: new wine in old bottles
by Pier Angelo Mori - 75-100 The contributions of behavioural economics to understanding and advancing the sustainability of worker cooperatives
by Avner Ben-Ner & Matthew Ellman
December 2012, Volume 1, Issue 1
- 1-6 Editorial
by Carlo Borzaga & Giovanni Ferri & Fabio Sabatini - 7-20 New Frontiers of Cooperation in the Economy
by Partha Dasgupta - 21-36 Interpreting the Roles and Economic Importance of Cooperative Enterprises in a Historical Perspective
by Vera Negri Zamagni - 37-64 Economies of Scale Versus Participation: a Co-operative Dilemma?
by Derek C. Jones & Panu Kalmi - 65-84 The Motivations of Economic Behavior: the Case of Cooperative Credit
by Silvio Goglio & Andrea Leonardi - 85-103 The Hidden Impact of Cooperative Membership on Quality Management: A Case Study from the Dairy Belt of Addis Ababa
by Gian Nicola Francesconi & Ruerd Ruben