Exploring the efficiency of Italian social cooperatives by descriptive and principal component analysis

Ericka Costa (), Michele Andreaus (), Chiara Carini () and Maurizio Carpita ()

Service Business, 2012, vol. 6, issue 1, 117-136

Abstract: Over the last decade, independent agencies, institutions and research centres (ISTAT—National Statistic Office, Ministry of Economic Development, Confcooperative Legacoop, Unioncamere) have provided studies on the evolution of the cooperative movement in the Third Sector in Italy in order to monitor the development of these organizations over time and to evaluate their economic and employment impact in the country. Following a similar path, this study analyzes the contribution of social cooperatives in Italy at a regional level, highlighting the differences related to their longevity and fields of activity. Moreover, the article evaluates the efficiency and profitability of the social cooperative by adopting principal component analysis to economic and financial indexes. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2012

Keywords: Social cooperatives; Italy; Regional development; Economic and financial indexes; Principal component analysis (PCA) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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