Do cooperative enterprises create social trust?

Arbeitspapier

This paper contributes to the literature by carrying out the first empirical investigation into the role of different types of enterprises in the creation of social trust. Drawing on a unique dataset collected through the administration of a questionnaire to a representative sample of the population of the Italian Province of Trento in March 2011, we find that cooperatives are the only type of enterprise where the work environment fosters the social trust of workers.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: EERI Research Paper Series ; No. 10/2012

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Nonprofit Institutions; NGOs; Social Entrepreneurship ; Comparison of Public and Private Enterprises and Nonprofit Institutions; Privatization; Contracting Out ; Cooperative Enterprises ; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
• Subject: Cooperative enterprises ; nonprofit organizations ; trust ; social capital ; motivations ; inclusive governance ; work organization

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Sabatini, Fabio ; Modena, Francesca ; Tortia, Ermanno
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI)
• (where): Brussels
• (when): 2012

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/142639
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