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  1. Multi-stakeholder social economy organizations and the circular economy

    Article • Management Decision, July 2026, Emerald

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  2. Multi-Stakeholder Cooperatives

    Article • January 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  3. Dividend-Based Labor Remuneration and Tradable Shares in Worker Cooperatives

    Article • Risks, December 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  4. Editorial: Cooperatives at the Frontline of Societal Transformation

    Article • Journal of Entrpreneurial and Organizational Diversity, December 2024, EURICSE - European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  5. Dividends, Labor Remuneration, and Worker Shares in Worker Cooperatives

    Article • November 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  6. The Great Reset as a Realistic Utopia—A Critical Stance from Critical Realism and Complex Systems Theory

    Article • Systems, August 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  7. The Great Reset as a Realistic Utopia. A Critical Stance from the Theory of Complex Systems.

    Article • July 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  8. Stakeholders self‐organization and adaptive governance in social enterprises: Membership representation, worker control and client orientation

    Article • Systems Research and Behavioral Science, April 2024, Wiley

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  9. A needs theory of governance: taking transaction cost theory back to humanistic economics and self-actualisation

    Article • Journal of Institutional Economics, January 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  10. Cooperative Enterprises and the Ecological Transition. Self-Organization of Stakeholders, Multi-Stakeholder Governance, and Sustainability Goals

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  11. Worker cooperatives in Italy: legislation, prevalence and recent trends

    Article • Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, June 2023, Emerald

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  12. Networking, Governance, and Stakeholder Engagement of Financial Cooperatives: Some National Case Studies

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  13. A Human Growth Perspective on Sustainable HRM Practices, Worker Well-Being and Organizational Performance

    Article • Sustainability, September 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  14. Employment protection regimes and dismissal of members in worker cooperatives

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Management, September 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  15. Organizational Governance, Individual Wellbeing, and Needs Theory

    Article • May 2022, IGI Global

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  16. Worker Involvement and Performance in Italian Social Enterprises: The Role of Motivations, Gender and Workload

    Article • Sustainability, January 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia, Simone Poledrini

  17. Multi-stakeholder Governance in Social Enterprises: Self-organization, Worker Involvement and Client Orientation

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  18. The Resilience and Adaptative Strategies of Italian Cooperatives during the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Article • Foresight and STI Governance, December 2021, National Research University, Higher School of Economics (HSE)

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  19. Capital as common-pool resource: Horizon problem, financial sustainability and reserves in worker cooperatives

    Article • Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management, December 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  20. Co‐operative enterprise anti‐cyclicality and the economic crisis: A comparative analysis of employment dynamics in Italy

    Article • Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, June 2021, Wiley

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  21. The Institutions of Livelihood and Social Enterprise Systems

    Article • Forum for Social Economics, May 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  22. Labour and Value: Rethinking Marx’s Theory of Exploitation

    Article • Review of Political Economy, May 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  23. Strong client orientation, little leverage in nonprofit firms?

    Article • Small Business Economics, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  24. Governing cooperatives in the context of individual motives

    Article • International Journal of Social Economics, December 2020, Emerald

    Dr Silvia Sacchetti, Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  25. The effect on economic development of creative class versus human capital: panel evidence from German regions

    Article • European Planning Studies, September 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  26. Social Enterprises: Evolution of the Organizational Model and Application to the Italian Case

    Article • Entrepreneurship Research Journal, July 2020, De Gruyter

    Simone Poledrini, Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  27. The ‘protective function’ of social enterprises: understanding the renewal of multiple sets of motivations

    Article • Review of Social Economy, April 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  28. Why are social enterprises good candidates for social innovation? Looking for personal and institutional drivers of innovation

    Article • Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, February 2020, Wiley

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia, Simone Poledrini

  29. Social responsibility in non-investor-owned organisations

    Article • Corporate Governance The International Journal of Business in Society, January 2020, Emerald

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  30. Equilibrium unemployment as a worker insurance device: wage setting in worker owned enterprises

    Article • Economia Politica, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  31. The notion of social responsibility in social enterprises and non-profit organizations

    Article • January 2019, Virtus Interpress

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  32. Conclusion

    Article • September 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  33. The Firm as a Common. Non-Divided Ownership, Patrimonial Stability and Longevity of Co-Operative Enterprises

    Article • Sustainability, March 2018, MDPI AG

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  34. The Firm as a Common. Non-divided Capital Ownership, Patrimonial Stability and Longevity of Co-operative Enterprises

    Article • March 2018, MDPI AG

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  35. Editorial: Background and Further Perspectives on Social Innovation in Social Enterprises

    Article • Journal of Entrpreneurial and Organizational Diversity, January 2018, EURICSE - European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia, Simone Poledrini

  36. Artists attract other creative professionals

    Article • Competition & Change, November 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr Silvia Sacchetti, Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  37. Applying the Möbius Strip Model to Corporate Social Responsibility: Survey-Based Findings from Italian Social Enterprises

    Article • Reports in Advances of Physical Sciences, June 2017, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  38. Employer moral hazard and wage rigidity. The case of worker owned and investor owned firms

    Article • International Review of Law and Economics, August 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  39. THE EXTENDED GOVERNANCE OF COOPERATIVE FIRMS: INTER-FIRM COORDINATION AND CONSISTENCY OF VALUES

    Article • Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, January 2015, Wiley

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia, Dr Silvia Sacchetti

  40. Employer Moral Hazard, Wage Rigidity, and Worker Cooperatives: A Theoretical Appraisal

    Article • Journal of Economic Issues, September 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  41. Do cooperative enterprises create social trust?

    Article • Small Business Economics, June 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  42. Agricultural cooperatives

    Article • Journal of Entrpreneurial and Organizational Diversity, May 2013, EURICSE - European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises

    Vladislav Valentinov, Professor Constantine Iliopoulos, Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  43. Satisfaction with Creativity: A Study of Organizational Characteristics and Individual Motivation

    Article • Journal of Happiness Studies, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia, Dr Silvia Sacchetti

  44. Productivity, wages and intrinsic motivations

    Article • Small Business Economics, May 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  45. The Economics of Social Responsibility

    Article • May 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  46. Perceived Fairness and Worker Well-Being in Public, For-Profit and NonProfit Firms: Evidence from the Italian Social Service Sector

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  47. Worker well-being and perceived fairness: Survey-based findings from Italy

    Article • The Journal of Socio-Economics, October 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  48. Self-financing in Labor-managed Firms (LMFs): Individual Capital Accounts and Bonds

    Article • January 2007, Emerald

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  49. Worker Motivations, Job Satisfaction, and Loyalty in Public and Nonprofit Social Services

    Article • Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, June 2006, SAGE Publications

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  50. Organizational innovations, human resources and firm performance

    Article • The Journal of Socio-Economics, February 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia

  51. Accumulation of capital and divisible reserves in labour managed firms

    Article • Corporate Ownership and Control, January 2005, Virtus Interpress

    Professor Ermanno C. Tortia