GUZMÁN ALFONSO , Carmen

Ethical banking has developed considerably in recent years. However, neither a universally accepted definition, nor a consensus by academicians about its typical characteristics yet exists to differentiate it from conventional banking. The purpose of this article is to bridge this gap in the literature using the notion of organisational...

Purpose This study aims to analyse the good practices developed by the Spanish Social and Solidarity Network (one of the leading networks in the country) regarding its social balance sheet, created under the perspective of social and solidarity principles. This social balance sheet is implemented by its members for their...

The digital transformation (DT) of companies implies the emergence of new business models based on the widespread use of digital technologies. Digital transformation is necessary to improve efficiency, productivity, and market access in a context of increasing competition. In the case of the agri-food sector, DT is also required to address the...

Social innovation and social enterprise are two major factors in addressing the challenges of population ageing since both are aimed at solving social problems. One of these challenges involves providing quality care services for the elderly. However, few studies have analysed how social enterprises can promote or manage social innovations in...

The socio-labour integration of people with disabilitiesis a major social problem for European countries and,especially, for Spain. Sheltered workshops, with theirproductive activity, are a kind of Work Integration SocialEnterprise (WISE) whose aim is to create jobs for thosepeople, supporting them through an insertion processinto the labour...

In recent years Social Economy has become more accepted in the current Economic System because capitalist economic system has been shown to be imperfect. In fact, in Spain a Social Economy Law was passed last March, and Andalusia is expected to sign up to the III Pact for Social Economy. Thus, this sector is seen as a possible alternative to...

Although it is widely accepted that innovation plays an important role in economicgrowth and development, which factors influence innovation remains an importantquestion of debate in the economic literature. This article focuses on the influenceexerted by social capital (SC) and personal values (PVs), given the lack of studiesthat jointly...

Dados sus principios de funcionamiento, las cooperativas son consideradas por diversos estudios como una fórmula empresarial que puede contribuir de forma destacada a superar la crisis económica iniciada en 2008. Asimismo, existen numerosas investigaciones que señalan que estas entidades juegan además un papel muy relevante en el...

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Cooperatives are enterprises characterised bycertain principles, such as cooperation, democratic de-cision-making, and training that define their entrepre-neurial behaviours. Several of these cooperative princi-ples appear to exert a positive influence on the perfor-mance of these firms and on the three dimensions thatdefine the entrepreneurial...

This article links two different fields of research, entrepreneurship and cooperatives, and studies whether, depending on the context, differences in terms of the fulfilment of the cooperative philosophy (cooperative essence) and entrepreneurial quality exist. To this aim, a statistical analysis is carried out using data from two Spanish...

In recent years, southern European countries have experienced a surge in the arrival of refugees and asylum seekers, which has intensified due to the war in Ukraine. In this scenario, the public sector and non-profit and voluntary organisations (NPVOs) play a leading role by introducing new initiatives to respond to the vast number...