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1236: What to make of social innovation? Towards a framework for policy development

Carlo Borzaga and Riccardo Bodini

1235: The Italian Social Cooperatives in 2008: A Portrait Using Descriptive and Principal Component Analysis

Chiara Carini, Ericka Costa, Maurizio Carpita and Michele Andreaus

1234: Partenariati innovativi tra privato e pubblico. Realizzazione di un Corso di formazione per l inserimento lavorativo di soggetti svantaggiati

Francesco Colla

1233: Stakeholder Orientation and Capital Structure: Social Enterprises Versus For-profit Firms in the Italian Social Residential Service Sector

Alessandro Fedele and Raffaele Miniaci

1232: Dalle societ di mutuo soccorso alla mutualit. Risposte alla crisi del welfare

Adriana Luciano

1231: Credit Cooperatives: Challenges and Opportunities in the New Global Scenario

Giovanni Ferri

1230: Valutazione della sostenibilit economica e finanziaria del sistema di servizi assistenziali agli anziani non autosufficienti: Il caso della Provincia di Trento

Andrea Francesconi and Luca Ghezzi

1229: Cooperatives: A Development Strategy? An Analysis of Argan Oil Cooperatives in Southwest Morocco

Zahir Dossa

1228: The Stubai Co-operative: Using Local Roots for Global Competitiveness Abstract: The Stubai Co-operative, founded in 1897 by several craftsmen and steel manufacturing companies located in the Tyrolean Stubai Valley, has developed in one of the most successful distributors of small steel products in the high quality segment on a global scale. The proposed case study will discuss the reasons for this remarkable success, given that the comparably small Stubai Co-operative is able to challenge big players in the iron manufacturing industry, mainly from the US and the Far East. The Co-operative combines long-lasting local industrial traditions with a process of advanced professionalization and internationalization. Stubai s success significantly depends on its legal status as a co-operative, as it provides the optimal framework for the successful collaboration of its members. Through the consistent uniformity of its presence, Stubai was able to establish itself in the international steel manufacturing sector as a brand combining the well-known quality of its products with its locality, the Stubai Valley. In a remarkable use of marketing synergies, the logo of the brand was offered (in a slightly changed version) to the tourism office of the Stubai Valley, thus linking the tourism marketing with the marketing of the Co-operative. The historical foundations are another facet of the Co-operative s grounding in the Stubai Valley. The roots reach back to the 14th Century, when the iron production and the iron manufacturing started in the valley. The founding process of the Co-operative is to be seen as an answer to a severe crisis of the market of iron products at that time where the Co-operative offered better opportunities for the existing small manufacturers and political interests of the socio-conservatives, who, successfully, tried to prevent the evolvement of a socialist workers movement in the region. Since then, the number of co-operative members has not been significantly modified. The right of membership exclusively belongs to metal processing companies from the valley. To guarantee the necessary pipeline of a specialised, highly skilled workforce, the co-operative also has enabled the foundation of a College for Mechanical Engineering and Manufacturing Technique in Fulpmes, the main place of business. A key to success is the diversity and quality offered by the member companies, which all are specialized on their own products. So, the marketing of a wide range of products under one brand becomes possible. By solely concentrating on local production, the information channels are short, what enables quick responses to new market demands. Furthermore, the Co-operative offers its mainly small sized members the opportunity to bring their products to the world market. At present, the Co-operative records a steady growth. Nevertheless, any substantial growth of the Co-operative is strongly limited by its strict focus on local membership. Therefore, its activities on a global scale are limited to being a niche player. Given the size of its main international competitors and the huge potential of simple economics of scale, this will remain a significant challenge to the Co-operative in the long run

Elisabeth Reiner

1227: La cooperazione sociale in Italia: un overview

Michele Andreaus, Chiara Carini, Maurizio Carpita and Ericka Costa

1226: Cooperation in Italy in 2008

Carlo Borzaga, Chiara Carini, Ericka Costa, Maurizio Carpita and Michele Andreaus

1226: La cooperazione in Italia nel 2008

Carlo Borzaga, Chiara Carini, Ericka Costa, Maurizio Carpita and Michele Andreaus

1225: The flexibility of the cooperative model as a development tool: The case of the metamorphosis of an Italian region

Gianluca Salvatori

1224: New Study Group on European Cooperative Law: Principles Project

Gemma Fajardo, Antonio Fici, Hagen Henr, David Hiez, Hans-H. M Nkner and Ian Snaith

1223: Cooperative identity and the law

Antonio Fici

1122: La cooperaci n en Trentino: un modelo construido a trav s de 120 a os de transformaciones

Gianluca Salvatori

1121: Las empresas sociales y cooperativas dentro del nuevo paradigma: porque en Europa la realidad niega la ideolog a

Gianluca Salvatori

1120: Le cooperative in campo educativo: dimensioni del fenomeno e ruolo della cooperazione sociale

Flaviano Zandonai

1119: Il fabbisogno di sviluppo dell impresa sociale. Un analisi a partire dal bando Donne&Lavoro"

Carlo Borzaga, Chiara Strano and Flaviano Zandonai

1118: Measuring the economic efficiency of Italian agricultural enterprises

Darina Zaimova

1117: What differences does a century make? Considering some crises in the international cooperative movement, 1900 and 2000

Ian MacPherson

1116: Cooperative credit network: advantages and challenges in italian cooperative credit banks

Mitja Stefancic

1115: Capital formation in new cooperatives in China: policy and practice

Li Zhao

1114: Il sistema di imprese della cooperazione sociale. Origini e sviluppo dei consorzi di cooperative sociali

Carlo Borzaga and Alberto Ianes

1013: I nuovi strumenti delle politiche di welfare: esperienze internazionali e implicazioni per l impresa sociale

Margherita Scarlato

1012: Incentives, job satisfaction and performance: empirical evidence in italian social enterprises

Sara Depedri, Ermanno Tortia and Maurizio Carpita

1011: Le radici del credito cooperativo sotto il profilo teorico e storico

Silvio Goglio and Andrea Leonardi

1011: The roots of cooperative credit from a theoretical and historical perspective

Silvio Goglio and Andrea Leonardi

1010: Analisi delle caratteristiche del processo gestionale dei Centri di Servizio per il Volontariato (CSV) in un ottica stakeholder management

Ericka Costa and Tommaso Ramus

1009: L impatto economico della cooperazione in provincia di Trento

Eddi Fontanari and Carlo Borzaga

1008: Reconceptualising the third sector: toward a heterodox perspective

Vladislav Valentinov

1007: Mission, strategie e valutazione delle performance delle aziende nonprofit in un approccio di stakeholder management

Ericka Costa and Tommaso Ramus

1006: Defining the nonprofit sectors in Japan and England & Wales: A comparative assessment of common versus civil law

Rosario Laratta and Chris Mason

1005: Working in the profit versus not for profit sector: what difference does it make? An inquiry on preferences of voluntary and involuntary movers

Leonardo Becchetti, Stefano Castriota and Sara Depedri

1004: La tutela dell'occupazione nelle cooperative di lavoro: strumenti e motivazioni. Analisi di un gruppo di cooperative ravennati

Cecilia Navarra

1003: The Growth of Organizational Variety in Market Economies: The Case of Social Enterprises

Carlo Borzaga, Sara Depedri and Ermanno Tortia

902: Italian Co-operative Law Reform and Co-operative Principles

Antonio Fici

901: Deregulation finanziaria e problemi economici: quale futuro per le cooperative finanziarie?

Silvio Goglio and Yiorgos Alexopoulos

900: The role of cooperative and social enterprises: A multifaceted approach for an economic pluralism

Carlo Borzaga, Sara Depedri and Ermanno Tortia