Community-Based Cooperatives as an innovative partnership to contrast inner areas decline

Q2 Social Sciences

Economia Agro-Alimentare Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI:10.3280/ecag2019-002002

L. Mastronardi, V. Giaccio, L. Romagnoli

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Abstract

The paper aims to describe the main characteristics of CBCs, and to highlight their outcomes in economics and social terms. The data, referring to year 2016, originates from the aida database of Bureau van Dijk. However, the sample construction took a number of steps: 1) interviews with privileged witnesses, 2) web search, 3) aida database interrogation; selection of the cooperative enterprises and checking their features, and 4) final database implementation. Our sample, consisting of 32 observations, has been segmented by means of a cluster analysis, with the aim of subdividing the CBCs in homogeneous groups on the basis of the variables under consideration. The results show that CBCs may contribute to prevent inner areas decline, mainly by the provision of essential services to the whole community; this is a benefit created by means of business activity and the participation of its members to its management. Nevertheless, the results also show a limited ability of CBCs to make investments on the areas in which they operate. As a consequence, CBCs have a low employment capacity. In every case, uncertainty on the real CBCs number and the limited sample size do not allow for a generalisation of these results.

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以社区为基础的合作社作为一种创新的伙伴关系来对抗内部地区的衰退

本文旨在描述CBCs的主要特征，并强调其在经济和社会方面的成果。2016年的数据来源于Bureau van Dijk的aida数据库。然而，样本构建采取了几个步骤:1)采访特权证人，2)网络搜索，3)aida数据库讯问;选择合作企业并检查其特征，以及4)最终的数据库实现。我们的样本由32个观察结果组成，通过聚类分析进行了分割，目的是根据所考虑的变量将CBCs细分为同质组。结果表明，CBCs主要通过向整个社区提供基本服务，可能有助于防止内陆地区的衰落;这是通过商业活动及其成员参与其管理而创造的利益。然而，调查结果也表明，CBCs在其业务所在地区进行投资的能力有限。因此，CBCs的就业能力较低。在每种情况下，实际CBCs数量的不确定性和有限的样本量不允许这些结果的推广。

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Economia Agro-Alimentare Social Sciences-Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

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1.40

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审稿时长

30 weeks

期刊介绍： Economia agro-alimentare/Food Economy is a triannual peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Franco Angeli Edizioni on behalf of the Italian Society of Agri-food Economics (SIEA), founded in 1996 by the then President of SIEA Fausto Cantarelli. It offers an international forum for the discussion and analysis of mono and interdisciplinary socio-economic, political, legal and technical issues, related to agricultural and food systems. It welcomes submissions of original papers focusing on agriculture, food, natural resources, safety, nutrition and health, including all processes and infrastructure involved in providing food to populations; as well as the processes, inputs and outputs involved in consumption and disposal of food and food-related items. Analyses also include social, political, economic and environmental contexts and human resource challenges. Submissions should be addressed to an international audience of researchers, practitioners, and policy makers, and they may consider local, national, or global scales.