Animal Spirits or Engaging Spirits?

Abstract

After having discussed the contemporary importance of the not-for-profit and social economy, the chapter builds on a cluster analysis of performances and roles of grant-making foundations, who are the essential node of the cooperation and coopetitiveness, today. This chapter aims to present worldwide grant-making foundations for their performances and profiling according to the latest accounting data and mission reports, which collect results of their projects according to the classification of pure grant-making, networking, leadership, partnership and pooling. With this in mind, the chapter adopts a typical approach of cluster analysis of industrial organization. The cluster analysis emphasizes the profiling of the sample and it allows to separate groups with significant features. The main focus remains on the issues of the finance of the social economy, when the Public Welfare State is too much indebted. Complementary and substitute roles of the Private Welfare State can emerge for the support the not-for-profit economy.

Innovation, Sustainability, and Organizational Change in a Social Portuguese Organization

“…Until recently, the frontiers of the social economy were seen as a blurred concept between the market and the state (Defourny & Nyssens, 2013). However, nowadays social economy represents an important part of the economy and social economy organizations face significant challenges in terms of management ability and knowledge, resource allocation, social entrepreneurship, and social accountability (Besana, 2017), while, at the same time, they thrive through the effort of dedicated individuals and organizations committed to ethical entrepreneurship (Amin, 2009). Those organizations can be seen not only as organizations producing goods and/or services, but also as enablers of social connections and collaborative action, a fundamental aspect for the creation of social value and social capital.…”