Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation

1 March 2017

157 – The firm as a common. The case of the accumulation and use of capital resources in co-operative enterprises

Abstract Contemporary literature dealing with the governance of the exploitation of common-pool natural resources was initiated by Elinor Ostrom in 1990, and has been growing fast […]
29 January 2017

FIT4SE – Financial Tools for Social Enterprises

The main general goal this project, led by Legacoop Romagna, is to contribute to the development of a social finance market by enabling more and more […]
29 July 2016

CO-SIRA: Co-Produced Social Innovation Research Agenda

In August 2014 the EMES network, in collaboration with AICCON, Radboud University (The Netherlands) and Roskilde University (Denmark), embarked on a collaborative effort to give researchers the […]
4 April 2016

Social Innovation Policies with the Involvement of Social Economy Organizations

In this paper, we investigate significant social innovation policies (related to the concept of social investment) involving the role of Social Economy organizations, and we discuss […]
14 October 2015

144 – Innovative partnerships for the utilisation of confiscated assets previously owned by mafias

ABSTRACT Purpose The third sector is a producer of trust and positive social interactions, the mafias destroy trust and social norms. To confiscate assets and the […]
29 June 2015

INNOSI (Innovative Social Investment: Strenghten Communities in Europe)

InnoSI asks how we can design robust social investment strategies which can deal with emerging socio-economic challenges and the aftershocks of the 2008 economic crisis. The research […]
3 July 2013

122 – Fair Trade impact and the price fetish

ABSTRACT We here present the main final results coming from four different on-the-field fair trade impact studies, confronting them with the most recent literature and deriving […]
31 October 2012

Social Innovation and Social Enterprises: the Italian perspective

Social Innovation, generally acknowledged as the capacity to respond to emerging needs through new forms and/or models of collaboration, represents one of the fields in which […]
10 July 2012

111 – The internal and external governance of cooperatives: effective membership and consistency of values

Abstract Cooperatives are characterised by mutual-benefit coordination mechanisms aimed at the fulfilment of members’ participation rights and welfare, consistently with the normative principles of democratic involvement, […]
20 June 2012

109 – Increasing Voluntary Contribution in a Public Goods Game through a Behavioral Policy Implementation: an Experimental Test

Abstract The aim of this work is to show that in a repeated Public Goods Game situation it is possible, through the implementation of a properly […]