{"title":"The Annual Conference of the Italian Society for Law and Economics (ISLE)","authors":"E. Tortia","doi":"10.5947/jeod.2019.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5947/jeod.2019.005","url":null,"abstract":"The Italian Society for Law and Economics (ISLE), which is one of the largest associations worldwide investigating this field of research, gathered delegates from various countries for its annual conference held on 13-15 December 2018 at the University of Salento (Lecce, Italy). This short report, included in the JEOD “Conference letter” section, pinpoints and briefly illustrates the most treated topics amongst the 75 paper presentations. These included regulation, with special attention to procurement, crowdfunding and community-driven regulation, labour markets and migration. In addition, the conference letter provides a detailed overview of the three keynote speeches that enriched the conference program and that investigated the topics of ethical behaviour, evolution of institutions as well as meritocracy and distributive inequity.","PeriodicalId":287519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Entrepreneurial & Organizational Diversity (JEOD)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130341648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship in Early Childhood Education and Care. Lessons from Three Case Studies of Innovative Services in Emilia-Romagna, Italy","authors":"A. Bassi","doi":"10.5947/JEOD.2018.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5947/JEOD.2018.007","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents the results of an eight-month research program undertaken under the InnoSI project framework, funded under the European Research Program Horizon 2020. We adopt the theoretical framework of social innovation of Westley and Antadze (2010), applying the four-dimensional scheme of social innovation elaborated by Hochgerner (2011): resources, authority flows, routine and beliefs (Bassi, 2011). We also refer to the typology of social innovations in the field of welfare policy emerging from the research of Evers, Ewert and Brandsen (2014). We use a multiple case study research model (Yin, 1993; 1994) that highlights the relationships among the micro, meso, and macro level of analysis of a program, project, and intervention at the local level. The case study analyses the integrated system of early childhood education and care (ECEC) services in Emilia-Romagna as an example of how increasing the accessibility and quality of ECEC provision could be pursued through a partnership between the public and private not-for-profit initiatives which pro-actively engage with local actors. The rationale for selecting the units of analysis, three early childhood services distributed across the regional territory, is therefore linked to the social demands underlying services’ implementation: reconciliation of family and working life responsibilities for parents; equal educational opportunities for children’s development and growth; and participation of groups which are at risk of social exclusion (low-income families, children from ethnic minority background).","PeriodicalId":287519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Entrepreneurial & Organizational Diversity (JEOD)","volume":"172 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132538220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review Jonathan Michie, Joseph R. Blasi and Carlo Borzaga (Eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Mutual, Co-operative and Co-owned Business","authors":"Riccardo Bodini","doi":"10.5947/jeod.2017.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5947/jeod.2017.012","url":null,"abstract":"The Oxford Handbook of Mutuals and Co-Owned Business investigates all types of 'member owned' organizations, whether consumer co-operatives, agricultural and producer co-operatives, worker co-operatives, mutual building societies, friendly societies, credit unions, solidarity organizations, mutual insurance companies, or employee-owned companies. Such organizations can be owned by their consumers, the producers, or the employees - whether through single-stakeholder or multi-stakeholder ownership.","PeriodicalId":287519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Entrepreneurial & Organizational Diversity (JEOD)","volume":"111 3S 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133690735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Challenging the Degeneration Thesis: The Role of Democracy in Worker Cooperatives?","authors":"K. Langmead","doi":"10.5947/JEOD.2016.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5947/JEOD.2016.005","url":null,"abstract":"This paper uses data collected through written narratives, focus groups and participant observation in three small UK worker cooperatives to investigate the role of democracy in maintaining cooperatives’ dual social-economic characteristic and resisting degeneration. More specifically, it adds to limited empirical literature countering the degeneration thesis by arguing that ongoing processes of individual-collective alignment, understood as central to the practice of democracy, help cooperatives to: balance varying and conflicting needs and aims; challenge the assumption underpinning the degeneration thesis; and transform degenerative “risks” into creative and productive spaces where new meanings and practices can be formed.","PeriodicalId":287519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Entrepreneurial & Organizational Diversity (JEOD)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126646780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial: The Cooperative Advantage for Community Development","authors":"M. Vieta, Doug Lionais","doi":"10.5947/jeod.2015.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5947/jeod.2015.001","url":null,"abstract":"Empirical evidence has shown that cooperatives are diverse organizations that efficaciously address a plurality of socio-economic needs. Cooperative organizations are effective in provisioning for myriad life needs, and do so in more democratic and sustainable ways than investor-owned firms. Rooted in the unique principles and values that distinguish them from other business types, cooperatives, in a nutshell, embody what has been called “the cooperative advantage”. This special issue of the Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity, “The Cooperative Advantage for Community Development”, was organized to highlight the myriad roles that cooperatives can and do have in protecting and developing communities, as well as the possible tensions and challenges that emerge in the process. Including seven articles from established and upcoming cooperative studies scholars, the special issue critically assesses diverse experiences of co-ops deployed for community development. Via papers engaged in case study approaches, political economy perspectives, critical historical research, and qualitative and quantitative methods, this special issue of JEOD critically reflects on and contributes to understanding the role of cooperatives in grounding bottom-up and locally based community development.","PeriodicalId":287519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Entrepreneurial & Organizational Diversity (JEOD)","volume":"103 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114092198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial: Cooperative Banks at a Turning Point?","authors":"S. Goglio, Y. Alexopoulos","doi":"10.5947/JEOD.2014.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5947/JEOD.2014.001","url":null,"abstract":"Many changes occurred in the last years in the economic and social framework make this question quite actual. This special issue argues that the new reality created by the great financial crisis has fostered cooperative banks’ development —at least at local level—and allowed them to re-establish and even strengthen trust towards the banking system, in a period when this was strongly endangered. The crisis has also proved the soundness of many hypotheses expressed by researchers about cooperative banks’ behavior stemming from their governance, business model and specialization, which heavily rely on relationship-based retail banking. In times of crisis it is important to understand the power of alternative approaches to business in general and of the financial system in particular. As the papers collected in this special issue extensively illustrate, cooperative banks are indeed a different \"animal\" in the banking \"zoo\". It cannot be ignored, however, that the turbulent banking scene has increased regulatory pressure towards the strengthening of equity and profits, while additional risks derive from the imposed stricter regulatory framework and the institutional steps taken toward the introduction of a banking union in the EU. Among these lines, this issue argues that, despite their recent success, cooperative banks are indeed at a turning point and should focus on a deep re-thinking of their general and local strategies, of their daily activity, both with members and customers, and of their loyalty to constitutive social principles.","PeriodicalId":287519,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Entrepreneurial & Organizational Diversity (JEOD)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132526230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}