Federica Bandini

Imprese sociali operanti in ambito sanitario: un’indagine esplorativa sui requisiti di aziendalità

Obiettivo di questo lavoro e la verifica dei requisiti di aziendalita delle imprese sociali che operano in sanita, per verificarne sostenibilita e durabilita. Cio per valutare la possibile integrazione dell’offerta sanitaria pubblica con l’offerta di imprese senza dirette finalita lucrativa, in una logica di sussidiarieta orizzontale e di pluralismo di offerta. Nella prima parte gli autori sottolineano l’effettiva esistenza di una domanda di servizi sanitari privati. Nella seconda e stato realizzato un confronto, utilizzando l’analisi in componenti principali, tra gli indicatori delle imprese sociali appartenenti a un noto network e quelli di un campione di aziende private lucrative, operanti in ambito sanitario. In un’ottica di financial benchmarking, sono stati individuati i differenziali di performance attinenti esclusivamente alle condizioni di esistenza in capo alle realta considerate.

Community-Based Enterprises in Italy: Definition and Governance Models

In recent years, a new form of co-operative business is taking shape in Italy: the community-based enterprise, a community acting collectively at both management and business level, to pursue common goals. Community-based enterprises grow on a system of networks of free relationships among the members of a local community, with a high degree of reciprocity; when individuals work together in a business systems, relationships become social relationships. The complex of the community members’ relationships, objectives and expectations towards the company reflects necessarily on governance models that should follow a multistakeholder pattern. Multistakeholdership implies a direct and active participation of subjects bearing conflicting interests in the decisional process. This paper describes community-based enterprises in Italy, draws their governance models, and emphasizes how the passage from opening to different stakeholders to implementation of multistakeholder governance is very slow and difficult to put into practice.

Innovation in the Partnership between Businesses and NGOs or Social Enterprises

It is evident, also in light of the recent economic and financial crisis, that the general interest in the whole must be pursued not only by public institutions and nonprofit organizations or social enterprises but by businesses as well. It is therefore clear why the need to implement social responsibility strategies and put them into management practices is becoming more and more important at every level. This means that not only doing business politics and strategies have to be redefined but also the roles and functions that the different institutions play in order for them to contribute autonomously and in line with the logic of business subsidiarity to the progressive achievement of the economic and social objectives of modern society.Dealing with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) means to consider not only the historical development of the relationship between the company and its contest, but also the relationships between it and NGOs and social enterprises.The strategic dimension of CSR has to be seen in a long term period: environment, for example, is a constituent part for the business itself and for its operations. By taking into account the presence of the environment as one of its stakeholders, the business is thereby able to better match its desires and goals with the social context and likewise analyzes the results obtained.In this circular relationship, successful businesses are therefore those able to operate according to proactive logic in relation to their surrounding communities.This research focuses on how this proactive logic extends in business relations towards nonprofit organizations and social enterprises. The paper studies these relationships trough:1. analysis of historic evolution of relationship between firms, nonprofit organizations and social enterprises in Italy;2. observation of the present relations between for profit and nonprofit world, the relationships with the environment and the comparison with other European countries;3. analysis of the present relations between profit and nonprofit world in Italy and statistical and econometric analysis of a sample of social enterprises that have partnerships with firms, and of a sample of businesses that have some type of relationships with nonprofit world;4. definition, trough case study, of the most important variables with particular attention to the communication instruments addressed to the stakeholders and to the social innovation;5. definition of guide lines for the improvement of relationships between businesses, nonprofit organizations and social enterprises with particular attention to process transparency, communication and social innovation6. definition of the most important practices of innovative partnerships between business and social enterprises

An Analysis of Social Enterprises Governance Models Through a Comparative Study of the Legislation of Eleven Countries

Social Enterprise is increasingly becoming a pressing area of study in European faculties, and likewise, a broad range of literature has been produced on the various, relating arguments. One of the aspects least focused upon, however, regards the issue of governance; which is a fundamental aspect when defining a type of governing system that could lead to an improvement in the efficiency and effectiveness of social enterprises. The need to combine both social and economic aims in the decision making process also emphasizes the importance of stakeholder participation. Furthermore, seeing as how social enterprises work in an environment of high public involvement, whether it be with public entities or with the community as a whole, issues such as business administration and activity supervision, come to be of high importance. The production of social utility goods and/or services is directed toward a plurality of local actors, which are to be furthermore guaranteed a high level of accountability and transparency. This paper explores governance through an in-depth analysis and comparison of the legislation of eleven countries on social enterprise or social cooperatives (Belgium, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and United Kingdom).