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My current research addresses the governance and networking of organisations that produce meritorious goods, within two sectors in particular: • the cultural sector, and in particular creative occupations and cultural nonprofit organisations, currently focusing on cultural volountary organisations, music schools and musicians and their implications for communities and stakeholders. In 2020 I was granted Euros 50,000 by the bank foundation Fondazione Caritro to start a research project on music schools, their networks and local development (start December 2020 for two years) to take extant research further. In 2021 I was responsible (with Mario Diani) for a research project commissioned by the trentino Brass Band Federation (Euros 10,000). • work integration social enterprises and their implications for communities and stakeholders. In 2015 I was granted internal but competitive OU funds on social enterprise governance. This internally funded preliminary research has developed into a successful Leverhulme Research Grant (£10,000) awarded by the British Academy to address work integration social enterprises. My early research has been concerned with the limits of corporate hierarchies, and especially with the development implications of concentration of decision-making power in production governance in terms of uneven development amongst people and localities. Starting from critical literature, I have studied production governance solutions for the development of inclusive economies and localities, and for building inclusive relations amongst communities of interest at all societal levels. Specifically, earlier research has focused on the study of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), their networks and clusters as industrial development models.
Sacchetti, S., Borzaga, C. and Tortia, E. The institutions of livelihood and social enterprise systems. Forum for Social Economics, first published online May 2021, https://doi.org/10.1080/07360932.2021.1927792.
Sacchetti, S. & Borzaga, C. (2020) The foundations of the “public organisation”: governance failure and the problem of external effects. JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE, 25(3), 731-758. DOI :10.1007/s10997-020-09525-x.
Sacchetti, S. and Catturani, I. 2021 Governance and different types of value: A framework for analysis, JOURNAL OF CO-OPERATIVE ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT, 9(1) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcom.2021.100133 Signoretti, A. & Sacchetti, S. 2020. Lean HRM Practices in Work Integration Social Enterprises: Moving Towards Social Lean Production. Evidence from Italian Case Studies. DOI:DOI:10.1111/apce.12283. In ANNALS OF PUBLIC AND COOPERATIVE ECONOMICS - ISSN:1370-4788
Ermanno C. Tortia, Silvia Sacchetti & Vladislav Valentinov 2020. The ‘protective function’ of social enterprises: understanding the renewal of multiple sets of motivations. DOI:10.1080/00346764.2020.1744702. pp.1-38. In REVIEW OF SOCIAL ECONOMY - ISSN:0034-6764 vol. 78 (2)
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Silvia Sacchetti has a PhD from the University of Birmingham (UK). She is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento (Italy) and collaborates with Euricse. Her research interests are in the inclusive development of economies, which she studies from the point of view of third sector organisations and inclusive governance structures. She focuses on cooperative firms and social enterprises, recently studied in the context of cultural and welfare services. Her research has addressed also the role of creativity, social capital, and individual motivations in enterprise and local development. Silvia’s most recent publications have appeared in Review of Social Economy, Journal of Management and Governance, Journal of Co-Operative Organization and Management, Impresa Sociale, Corporate Governance (the International Journal Of Business in Society), Journal of Business Ethics, Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity, European Planning Studies. Silvia is Co-Chief Editor of the Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity and Board member of the European Management Journal. She is a member of the European Research Board of the International Cooperative Alliance.
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