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Las Empresas Sociales Y Cooperativas Dentro Del Nuevo Paradigma: Porque En Europa La Realidad Los Negan La Ideologia (Cooperative and Social Enterprises in the New Paradigm: Why in Europe Facts Run Counter to Ideology)


Gianluca Salvatori


European Research Institute on Cooperative & Social Enterprises (EURICSE)

October 1, 2011

Euricse Working Papers No. 21/11

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The Italian version of this paper can be found at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1950054

El texto trata del renovado interés europeo, dentro del debate político-institucional, para la economía social. En particular se aborda el reconocimiento de la diversidad de formas de empresas después de más de dos décadas en las que, tanto el paradigma económico continentale asì como las comunes estrategias de desarrollo de la Unión Europea fueron monopolizadas prácticamente por el predominio del modelo de las grandes empresas capitalistas enmarcas dentro del duopolio Estado - mercado. La crisis que se estalló en 2008 ha acelerado un proceso (ya iniciado por el declive de las formas tradicionales del Estado del bienestar), que entreve la aparición de formas de empresas sociales y también el papel más activo de las cooperativas. Este marco forma parte del debate reciente sobre la Innovación Social, que ve entre sus participantes la propia Comisión Europea. Inclusdo evitando de tratar sobre las referencias conceptuales y terminologícas que aún no han formado una teoría adecuada sobre la pluralidad de formas de empresa, este debate es un reconocimiento de cómo la experiencia europea está caracterizada por muchos ejemplos, especialmente a nivel local, mostrando que demuestran como este pluralismo se ha mantenido siempre vivo y productivo, y hoy puede representar un componente importante de una estrategia de salida de la crisis financieras y de la falta de confianza que afecta las sociedades europeas.

The paper discusses the renewed interest in the social economy within the European political and institutional discourse. After over two decades during which the economic thought and development strategies in our continent have been monopolized by the model of large capitalistic enterprises within a state-market dichotomy, there is now a greater acknowledgment of the diversity of enterprise forms. The crises that started in 2008 has accelerated this process, which had already started with the decline of the traditional welfare state and the rise of social enterprises, coupled with a more active role played by cooperatives. In this context, the new debate on social innovation arose, which saw the active involvement of the European Commission itself. Despite the limitations imposed by a conceptual and terminological frame of reference that still does not translate into an adequate theory of the pluralism of enterprise forms, this debate reflects the acknowledgement that the European experience is populated by myriad examples, particularly at the local level, of how this pluralism has always been alive and well, and how it can now be an important element in a strategy that can lead us out of the financial and confidence crisis that plagues European societies.

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Number of Pages in PDF File: 16

Keywords: empresas sociales, Innovación Social, pluralismo de formas de empresa, seguridad social en europa

JEL Classification: D02, D60, H53, I00, l38

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Date posted: November 8, 2011 ; Last revised: November 9, 2011

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Salvatori, Gianluca, Las Empresas Sociales Y Cooperativas Dentro Del Nuevo Paradigma: Porque En Europa La Realidad Los Negan La Ideologia (Cooperative and Social Enterprises in the New Paradigm: Why in Europe Facts Run Counter to Ideology) (October 1, 2011). Euricse Working Papers No. 21/11. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1950559 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1950559

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Gianluca Salvatori (Contact Author)
European Research Institute on Cooperative & Social Enterprises (EURICSE) ( email )
Via S. Giovanni 36
38122 Trento (TN)
Italy

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