Workers or Investors? Investigating the Reciprocity Aspects among Greek Social Enterprises Members

In Europe 160 million people are members of social economy enterprises and mutual societies. Members that work at social enterprises usually are bound with an employee relationship with their organization; on the other hand participating in a social enterprise could be their only chance to find a j...

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Autores principales:	Achilleas Kontogeorgos, Fotios Chatzitheodoridis
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Publicado:	AECOOP Escuela de Estudios Cooperativos 2019
Materias:	Economics as a science HB71-74
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:1c3084306d53489fb1511ddafb9b3f6e2021-11-12T13:14:37ZWorkers or Investors? Investigating the Reciprocity Aspects among Greek Social Enterprises Members10.5209/reve.643031135-66181885-8031https://doaj.org/article/1c3084306d53489fb1511ddafb9b3f6e2019-05-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/REVE/article/view/64303https://doaj.org/toc/1135-6618https://doaj.org/toc/1885-8031 In Europe 160 million people are members of social economy enterprises and mutual societies. Members that work at social enterprises usually are bound with an employee relationship with their organization; on the other hand participating in a social enterprise could be their only chance to find a job, especially for economies that face a long-term recession such as the Greek economy. Social enterprises and entrepreneurs invest in reciprocity which represents that positive actions will inspire reciprocal positive actions. The main objective of this study is to examine the effect of reciprocity on members’ decision either to invest in social enterprises or to work for them acquiring in both cases the necessary shares. For this reason, a survey was conducted among Greek members of social enterprises listed in the Greek Social enterprises directory, to investigate their aspects about reciprocity and if these aspects affect their decision to work in a social enterprise or support financially them. The survey process returned 142 fully completed questionnaires. The analysis identified a sub group (5 over 27 items) of the questions used to measure reciprocity that can be used to classify participants into shareholders - members (investors) and shareholders - workers in social enterprises. It is worth mentioning that sex or other demographic characteristics of the respondents do not affect this classification while there are only aspects of positive reciprocity that have either positive or negative effect on the possibility to work in social enterprises. Social entrepreneurs and the Greek state could use these findings in order to direct and manage their expansion efforts. Achilleas KontogeorgosFotios ChatzitheodoridisAECOOP Escuela de Estudios CooperativosarticleEconomics as a scienceHB71-74ENESRevista de Estudios Cooperativos, Vol 132 (2019)
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description	In Europe 160 million people are members of social economy enterprises and mutual societies. Members that work at social enterprises usually are bound with an employee relationship with their organization; on the other hand participating in a social enterprise could be their only chance to find a job, especially for economies that face a long-term recession such as the Greek economy. Social enterprises and entrepreneurs invest in reciprocity which represents that positive actions will inspire reciprocal positive actions. The main objective of this study is to examine the effect of reciprocity on members’ decision either to invest in social enterprises or to work for them acquiring in both cases the necessary shares. For this reason, a survey was conducted among Greek members of social enterprises listed in the Greek Social enterprises directory, to investigate their aspects about reciprocity and if these aspects affect their decision to work in a social enterprise or support financially them. The survey process returned 142 fully completed questionnaires. The analysis identified a sub group (5 over 27 items) of the questions used to measure reciprocity that can be used to classify participants into shareholders - members (investors) and shareholders - workers in social enterprises. It is worth mentioning that sex or other demographic characteristics of the respondents do not affect this classification while there are only aspects of positive reciprocity that have either positive or negative effect on the possibility to work in social enterprises. Social entrepreneurs and the Greek state could use these findings in order to direct and manage their expansion efforts.
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title	Workers or Investors? Investigating the Reciprocity Aspects among Greek Social Enterprises Members
title_short	Workers or Investors? Investigating the Reciprocity Aspects among Greek Social Enterprises Members
title_full	Workers or Investors? Investigating the Reciprocity Aspects among Greek Social Enterprises Members
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Workers or Investors? Investigating the Reciprocity Aspects among Greek Social Enterprises Members

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