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Overview of Social Economy in IT
Italy
The role of cooperative and social enterprises
The role of cooperative and social enterprises in contemporary market economies has been downplayed and marginalised to date by the dominant economic approaches.
The role of cooperative and social enterprises: A multifaceted approach for an economic pluralism
To date, the dominant economic approaches have downplayed and marginalised the role of cooperative and social enterprises in contemporary market economies. This insufficient attention derives from the limited applicability to the case of cooperative and social enterprises of two of the main assumptions of orthodox microeconomic theory: the presence of only self-interested individuals and profit-maximisation as the only possible firm objective.
Social Economy overview in Italy
Euricse’s framework of analysis is defined around the term “social enterprise”. By social enterprise (SE) we intend (EMES definition) “not-for-profit private organizations providing goods or services directly related to their explicit aim to benefit the community. They rely on a collective dynamic involving various types of stakeholders in their governing bodies, they place a high value on their autonomy and they bear economic risks linked to their activity.” (Defourny and Nyssens 2008: 5).