Subject
The history of social enterprise in Italy is closely linked to the evolution of its welfare system and spans nearly forty years, encompassing diverse trends across the various organisational types that make up the social enterprise spectrum.
Details
Intermediary Org: European Commission
Year: 2016
Social enterprise and their eco-system: A European mapping report of Italy
Extract…
The history of social enterprise in Italy is closely linked to the evolution of its welfare system and spans nearly forty years, encompassing diverse trends across the various organisational types that make up the social enterprise spectrum. These are: (i) social cooperatives; (ii) associations and foundations, (iii) mutual aid societies; (iii) joint stock and limited liability companies; and (iv) traditional cooperatives. Building upon a rather undersized non-profit sector that was traditionally focused on advocacy activities, social enterprise has developed in different stages. In the first stage, social cooperatives were the crucial actors, and then associations and voluntary organisations shifting towards a stronger entrepreneurial stance, and finally joint stock and limited liability companies that decided both to pursue explicit social aims and to adopt inclusive governance.
