Issue 114 of ‘CIRIEC-Spain, Journal of Public, Social and Cooperative Economy’ (JCR Q3) is a special issue entitled “Advances and Perspectives in the Social Economy Research Agenda,” coordinated by Professor Rafael Chaves Ávila, editor of the journal and president of the Scientific Committee of CIRIEC-Spain. The monograph contains 12 articles authored by 28 scholars from 16 universities in Spain, Italy, and Latin America.
According to Rafael Chaves, the last three decades have witnessed substantial progress in research related to the social economy, with prolific academic production. A strong theoretical and empirical corpus has been generated, and an international scientific community has been consolidated around major scholarly societies specializing in the field of the social economy, such as CIRIEC-International, its various national sections, EMES, the International Cooperative Alliance, and ISTR.
As early as 2006, the journal published a first special issue reviewing research activity in the social economy. Now, the new issue updates the main advances achieved in this area, the debates held, the emerging concepts and theories, as well as the most promising and relevant research lines likely to guide future investigations.
As Rafael Chaves points out, “this review must be useful to the scientific community, especially to young researchers in guiding their doctoral theses, and to other scholars by indicating the most relevant topics in the current research agenda.”
The articles published address, among other topics, the conceptual delimitation of the social economy field; the economic quantification of the social economy and its families; the measurement of the impact and the socio-economic added value of the social economy; government policies; the role of the different families within the social economy; the historical analysis of the social economy, with particular emphasis on cooperativism; the gender perspective, and the institutional perspective on the social economy.
Summary
- Economía social: estadísticas, conceptos y perímetros. Tres décadas para un consenso internacional, por José Luis Monzón Campos
- Three decades of research on social economy public policies. Further insights for government policies on cooperatives, nonprofit entities and social enterprises, by Rafael Chaves Ávila
- 20 años de investigación en Economía Social en España a través de las tesis doctorales (2003-2023), by Cristina Bernad Morcate, Millán Díaz Foncea and Alejandra Millán Franco
- La Economía Social como forma de emprendimiento colectivo: raíces históricas, vigencia actual y perspectivas para la investigación futura. La Economía Social como campo de investigación, by Felipe Hernández Perlines
- Agri-food cooperatives in the european scientific literature in the period 2005-2024, by Juan F. Juliá Igual, Erasmo I. López Becerra, Elena Meliá Martí
- Exploring the future of social economy in the financial sector: sustainable finance and credit cooperatives, by Fatima Dahbi, Inmaculada Carrasco Monteagudo, Josanco Floreani, Barbara Petracci
- Situación de la investigación en sostenibilidad en la Economía Social: tendencias y líneas de investigación, by Adoración Mozas Moral, Raquel Puentes Poyatos, Enrique Bernal Jurado
- Análisis del impacto social en la Economía Social y la futura agenda de investigación, by José Luis Retolaza and Leire San Jose
- Financial reporting for cooperatives: a literature review, by Fernando Polo Garrido and Sergio Marí Vidal
- Perspectiva de género en la Economía Social y el Cooperativismo: hacia una agenda de investigación transformadora, by Saioa Arando, Eunate Elio and Carmen Marcuello
- Tendencias en la investigación de la historia de la Economía Social en Iberoamérica. Avances en su análisis e interpretación, by Juan Pablo Martí, Benjamín Palacios and Mario Radrigán Rubio
- La Economía Social y Solidaria desde la perspectiva del institucionalismo económico, by Miguel Ángel Alarcón Conde and Juan Fernando Álvarez Rodríguez
