Carlo Borzaga
Biographic Data
| ID | 2082466 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carlo Borzaga |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carlo |
| FAMILY NAME | Borzaga |
| SIGNATURE | BORZAGA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Trento |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3834-9174 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Économie sociale, réflexions et perspectives
Au cours des trois dernières décennies, les coopératives ont découvert de nouveaux domaines d’activité, en particulier les services d’aide sociale et d’intérêt communautaire, et ont innové en matière de gouvernance, passant d’une structure monopartite à une structure à plusieurs parties prenantes. De plus en plus, elles ne servent pas un seul type de membre mais plusieurs, y compris les besoins des non-membres. Ces changements sont tous corrélés …
Co‐operative enterprise anti‐cyclicality and the economic crisis
The theoretical and empirical literature reports that worker co‐operatives protect employment better than investor‐owned firms (IOFs) do, especially during economic downturns. This paper introduces the new hypothesis that not only worker co‐operatives but all co‐operative types (e.g. worker, producer, consumer, credit) protect employment better than IOFs do because they all satisfy their members’ needs—instead of maximizing shareholder value—by d…
The Institutions of Livelihood and Social Enterprise Systems
Liberal Philosophies of Ownership
This chapter discusses three liberal philosophies of ownership: right libertarianism, which advocates an expansive conception of private property and which holds that legitimate and strict rights to such property can emerge through the voluntary production and exchange of self-owning individuals on the basis of initial privatizations of external resources that can be very unequal but nevertheless just; left libertarianism, which modifies the righ…
The Oxford Handbook of Mutual, Co-Operative, and Co-Owned Business
This handbook investigates ‘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 the consumers, producers, or employees—whether through single-stakeholder or multi-stakeholder ownership. ‘Employee-ow…
Oxford Handbook of Mutual and Co-Owned Business
Social enterprise as a bottom-up dynamic. Part 2
Over the past three decades, enterprises of a new kind, explicitly pursuing social aims, have emerged worldwide as new welfare actors (Borzaga et al. 2016). This evolution was boosted by the engage
Innovating the provision of welfare services through collective action
Social cooperatives are the most widespread social enterprise type in Italy. Their evolution has stimulated the development of diverse interpretative frameworks of social enterprise determinants: the mainstream one is that social cooperatives are the outcome of contracting out policies. Through a critical investigation of social cooperatives’ emergence, integration into public policies, and reaction to the financial crisis, the authors refocus at…
Rural Finance and Agricultural Technology Adoption in Ethiopia
Social enterprise as a bottom-up dynamic
Over the past decades, social enterprises have been acknowledged as key welfare actors in several EU countries. In spite of the dramatic research devoted to exploring them, several issues concerning the definition, drivers and roles played by policies in sustaining social enterprise growth are still highly contested. Drawing on the papers published in this Monographic section, the introduction to this issue reconstructs the debate that has accomp…
Civil Society, the Third Sector and Social Enterprise
What to Make of Social Innovation? Towards a Framework for Policy Development
Over the past few years there has been a growing interest on the part of the scientific community (and, more recently, of policymakers) in the concept of social innovation. The notion of social innovation is particularly appealing in light of the difficulties facing traditional welfare systems and, more broadly, a development model that is finding it increasingly difficult to meet the growing and diversified needs of society. However, the uses an…
Civil society, third sector, and healthcare
Processes of Institutionalization and Differentiation in the Italian Third Sector
The article describes the recent evolution of the Italian third sector, focusing particularly on its changing role in relation to welfare policies and on its contribution to the development of the provision of social services. In contrast with those considering the emergence and development of the sector solely, or mainly, as a consequence of decisions made by external actors, especially public institutions, the article shows a more complex and d…
Worker Motivations, Job Satisfaction, and Loyalty in Public and Nonprofit Social Services
Exploiting a unique data set created in 1999 on a sample of 228 public, nonprofit, and for-profit organizations operating in the social service sector, and on 2,066 workers, the article tests whether workers’ satisfaction and loyalty to the organization is influenced by workers’ motivations and by the incentive mixes offered by different organizational forms. As for satisfaction, intrinsic and relational attitudes toward work exert the greatest i…
The Emergence of Social Enterprise
What are the characteristics of social enterprises? What are the future prospects for social enterprises? What do social enterprises contribute? Analyzing social enterprises in fifteen different countries, The Emergence of Social Enterprise seeks to answer these important questions while investigating the remarkable growth in the 'third sector'. Using the social enterprises as case-studies, theory and practice is combined in a compelling argument…
Social Cooperatives and Work Integration in Italy
The paper presents and analyses the birth and evolution of social cooperatives for work integration in Italy. Born spontaneously in response to the failure of policies for the employment of disadvantaged workers, this particular entrepreneurial form was recognized and regulated in 1991 by enactment of a special law. The paper sets out the main results of recent research studies, results which enable quantification of the phenomenon and illustrati…
The Italian Nonprofit Sector
Patterns of Peripheral Development in Italian Regions, 1964–1977
Patterns of peripheral development in Italian regions, 1964–1977
Rural Finance and Agricultural Technology Adoption in Ethiopia
Processes of Institutionalization and Differentiation in the Italian Third Sector
The article describes the recent evolution of the Italian third sector, focusing particularly on its changing role in relation to welfare policies and on its contribution to the development of the provision of social services. In contrast with those considering the emergence and development of the sector solely, or mainly, as a consequence of decisions made by external actors, especially public institutions, the article shows a more complex and d…
Civil society, third sector, and healthcare
What to Make of Social Innovation? Towards a Framework for Policy Development
Over the past few years there has been a growing interest on the part of the scientific community (and, more recently, of policymakers) in the concept of social innovation. The notion of social innovation is particularly appealing in light of the difficulties facing traditional welfare systems and, more broadly, a development model that is finding it increasingly difficult to meet the growing and diversified needs of society. However, the uses an…
Patterns of peripheral development in Italian regions, 1964–1977
Social enterprise as a bottom-up dynamic. Part 2
Over the past three decades, enterprises of a new kind, explicitly pursuing social aims, have emerged worldwide as new welfare actors (Borzaga et al. 2016). This evolution was boosted by the engage
Innovating the provision of welfare services through collective action
Social cooperatives are the most widespread social enterprise type in Italy. Their evolution has stimulated the development of diverse interpretative frameworks of social enterprise determinants: the mainstream one is that social cooperatives are the outcome of contracting out policies. Through a critical investigation of social cooperatives’ emergence, integration into public policies, and reaction to the financial crisis, the authors refocus at…
Social enterprise as a bottom-up dynamic
Over the past decades, social enterprises have been acknowledged as key welfare actors in several EU countries. In spite of the dramatic research devoted to exploring them, several issues concerning the definition, drivers and roles played by policies in sustaining social enterprise growth are still highly contested. Drawing on the papers published in this Monographic section, the introduction to this issue reconstructs the debate that has accomp…
Social Cooperatives and Work Integration in Italy
The paper presents and analyses the birth and evolution of social cooperatives for work integration in Italy. Born spontaneously in response to the failure of policies for the employment of disadvantaged workers, this particular entrepreneurial form was recognized and regulated in 1991 by enactment of a special law. The paper sets out the main results of recent research studies, results which enable quantification of the phenomenon and illustrati…
The Italian Nonprofit Sector
Patterns of Peripheral Development in Italian Regions, 1964–1977
Patterns of Peripheral Development in Italian Regions, 1964–1977
Patterns of peripheral development in Italian regions, 1964–1977
The Italian Nonprofit Sector
Social Cooperatives and Work Integration in Italy
The paper presents and analyses the birth and evolution of social cooperatives for work integration in Italy. Born spontaneously in response to the failure of policies for the employment of disadvantaged workers, this particular entrepreneurial form was recognized and regulated in 1991 by enactment of a special law. The paper sets out the main results of recent research studies, results which enable quantification of the phenomenon and illustrati…
The Emergence of Social Enterprise
What are the characteristics of social enterprises? What are the future prospects for social enterprises? What do social enterprises contribute? Analyzing social enterprises in fifteen different countries, The Emergence of Social Enterprise seeks to answer these important questions while investigating the remarkable growth in the 'third sector'. Using the social enterprises as case-studies, theory and practice is combined in a compelling argument…
Worker Motivations, Job Satisfaction, and Loyalty in Public and Nonprofit Social Services
Exploiting a unique data set created in 1999 on a sample of 228 public, nonprofit, and for-profit organizations operating in the social service sector, and on 2,066 workers, the article tests whether workers’ satisfaction and loyalty to the organization is influenced by workers’ motivations and by the incentive mixes offered by different organizational forms. As for satisfaction, intrinsic and relational attitudes toward work exert the greatest i…
Processes of Institutionalization and Differentiation in the Italian Third Sector
The article describes the recent evolution of the Italian third sector, focusing particularly on its changing role in relation to welfare policies and on its contribution to the development of the provision of social services. In contrast with those considering the emergence and development of the sector solely, or mainly, as a consequence of decisions made by external actors, especially public institutions, the article shows a more complex and d…
What to Make of Social Innovation? Towards a Framework for Policy Development
Over the past few years there has been a growing interest on the part of the scientific community (and, more recently, of policymakers) in the concept of social innovation. The notion of social innovation is particularly appealing in light of the difficulties facing traditional welfare systems and, more broadly, a development model that is finding it increasingly difficult to meet the growing and diversified needs of society. However, the uses an…
Civil society, third sector, and healthcare
Civil Society, the Third Sector and Social Enterprise
Social enterprise as a bottom-up dynamic. Part 2
Over the past three decades, enterprises of a new kind, explicitly pursuing social aims, have emerged worldwide as new welfare actors (Borzaga et al. 2016). This evolution was boosted by the engage
Innovating the provision of welfare services through collective action
Social cooperatives are the most widespread social enterprise type in Italy. Their evolution has stimulated the development of diverse interpretative frameworks of social enterprise determinants: the mainstream one is that social cooperatives are the outcome of contracting out policies. Through a critical investigation of social cooperatives’ emergence, integration into public policies, and reaction to the financial crisis, the authors refocus at…
Rural Finance and Agricultural Technology Adoption in Ethiopia
Social enterprise as a bottom-up dynamic
Over the past decades, social enterprises have been acknowledged as key welfare actors in several EU countries. In spite of the dramatic research devoted to exploring them, several issues concerning the definition, drivers and roles played by policies in sustaining social enterprise growth are still highly contested. Drawing on the papers published in this Monographic section, the introduction to this issue reconstructs the debate that has accomp…
Liberal Philosophies of Ownership
This chapter discusses three liberal philosophies of ownership: right libertarianism, which advocates an expansive conception of private property and which holds that legitimate and strict rights to such property can emerge through the voluntary production and exchange of self-owning individuals on the basis of initial privatizations of external resources that can be very unequal but nevertheless just; left libertarianism, which modifies the righ…
The Oxford Handbook of Mutual, Co-Operative, and Co-Owned Business
This handbook investigates ‘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 the consumers, producers, or employees—whether through single-stakeholder or multi-stakeholder ownership. ‘Employee-ow…
Oxford Handbook of Mutual and Co-Owned Business
The Institutions of Livelihood and Social Enterprise Systems
Co‐operative enterprise anti‐cyclicality and the economic crisis
The theoretical and empirical literature reports that worker co‐operatives protect employment better than investor‐owned firms (IOFs) do, especially during economic downturns. This paper introduces the new hypothesis that not only worker co‐operatives but all co‐operative types (e.g. worker, producer, consumer, credit) protect employment better than IOFs do because they all satisfy their members’ needs—instead of maximizing shareholder value—by d…
Économie sociale, réflexions et perspectives
Au cours des trois dernières décennies, les coopératives ont découvert de nouveaux domaines d’activité, en particulier les services d’aide sociale et d’intérêt communautaire, et ont innové en matière de gouvernance, passant d’une structure monopartite à une structure à plusieurs parties prenantes. De plus en plus, elles ne servent pas un seul type de membre mais plusieurs, y compris les besoins des non-membres. Ces changements sont tous corrélés …
Political science (14 works) · Economics (12 works) · Business (10 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Cooperative Studies and Economics (7 works) · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (6 works) · Civil society (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works)