Come nasce l’imprenditorialità cooperativa [Co-operative Entrepreneurship]

The paper draws on international experience where interesting models of entrepreneurship for establishing co-operatives have been developed. It begins by reviewing the literature about entrepreneurial activity to establish co-operatives, which also draws on the rapidly emerging field of social entrepreneurship. It then goes onto examine the major forms that it takes, developing a typology, and discussing a number of case studies to explore the processes of entrepreneurship and the issues that arise from this.