Social Enterprise and Institutions for Collective Action

07/02/2025

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07/01/2024

Last call for social enterprise enthusiasts who want to dive deeper! If you are you passionate about social enterprises and want to know all about them, and hope to become a researcher in this field: then this is your chance to apply for a PhD-position at our department, deadline 15th of January! We welcome interested candidates with a master’s degree in business studies, management studies, sociology, economics, psychology, or a related discipline. Social enterprises, in various forms, form one of the topics for which you can apply. You can apply for a fully funded PhD-position in Sustainability and Management with our department Business-Society Management (B-SM), Erasmus University: https://www.erim.eur.nl/doctoral-programme/phd-in-management/phd-vacancies/phd-in-sustainability-and-management/

The Business-Society Management department at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, is seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate looking to study a topic in the area of sustainability and management. For this position, you will be able to freely choose your own research topic, withi...

10/05/2023

Join us on 16 June for an inspiring day where citizen collectives and government come together!

CollectieveKracht and Europe Direct Eindhoven are organising an event on Friday 16 June with the theme 'Burgercollectieven en overheid: Genoeg geëxperimenteerd?!'. In the Parktheater in Eindhoven, we will share inspiring stories and examples, stimulate dialogues and share new insights from practice and science from The Netherlands and other European countries. Do we need more experiments and pilots or is it time to scale up? Have a seat and join the discussion during the 16th!

Participation is free, book your tickets here:

Een dag die burgercollectieven en overheid samenbrengt door middel van inspirerende verhalen, presentaties en dialogen.

31/03/2023

Vacancies: 4 PhDs and 1 Postdoc Featured Are you passionate about building sustainable futures for the planet and humanity, and about understanding the roles communities can play in the process? Do you want to be a part of cutting-edge research projects that address the ways communities and citizens...

15/09/2022

On Tuesday, 20 September at 2PM (CEST), Dr. Eoin McLaughlin will be our guest in our open seminar series. Dr. McLaughlin is a senior Lecturer in Economics at University College Cork. His research interests are in economic, financial and social history. In one of his current projects the aim is to trace levels of sustainability from the mid 19th century to present day using the Genuine Savings Metric (GS). GS is an indicator propagated by the World Bank, measuring progress and development and is proven as a relevant indicator of sustainable development.

Interested in one or more of these talks? Or interested in making a presentation? Please send a message to [email protected] to request a link or to discuss the possibilities.

26/08/2022

Our team presents... Marianne Groep-Foncke, our research officer. As a historian and our highly valued flying goalkeeper, she supports our team in many ways. From being the professor’s PA to writing grant applications and organizing events, Marianne can really do it all. Before graduating as a PhD, she did several jobs and also wrote historical books. If you want to know why she decided to return to Academia or by what means she propels herself through the polder, read further on

I’m an historian. Between obtaining my master’s degree in 1998 and graduating as a PhD in 2021 I had several jobs and started my own small business. I did archival work, wrote for newspapers, websites and a walking trail, was a self-employed editor and authored historical books and book chapters...

15/07/2022

Wil je wetenschap en de samenleving verbinden? En bijdragen aan onderzoek over belangrijke maatschappelijke ontwikkelingen én aan de praktijk van coöperatieve sociale ondernemingen? Onderzoeksgroep Institutions for Collective Action (Rotterdam School of Management) zoekt een wetenschappelijk projectcoördinator die de schakel vormt tusssen onderzoekers en burgers. Lees de hele vacature op https://www.rsm.nl/about-rsm/work-with-us/wetenschappelijk-projectcooerdinator/ en reageer voor 20 augustus.

Wil je wetenschap en de samenleving verbinden? En bijdragen aan onderzoek over belangrijke maatschappelijke ontwikkelingen én aan de praktijk van coöperatieve sociale ondernemingen? In deze functie ben je betrokken bij onderzoek en vorm je de schakel tussen onderzoekers en burgers.

16/06/2022

In the next episode of 'Our team presents...' Max de Vriend has the floor. Why did this attentive and sporty food lover stay on at Rotterdam School of Management after his masters? And what exactly does he do within the team? Read further on the website of Institutions for Collective Action: http://www.collective-action.info/_TEA_Interviews

13/06/2022

We congratulate Agnes Akkerman and our team member Damion Bunders with the publication of their paper "Commitment issues? Analysing the effect of preference deviation and social embeddedness on member commitment to worker cooperatives in the gig economy" in Economic and Industrial Democracy. It's open access and can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X221101425

As enterprises that are owned and governed by workers themselves for their mutual benefit, worker cooperatives are currently re-emerging as a promising antidote...

24/05/2022

Op 20 en 21 mei bracht onderzoeksgroep ICA werkbezoeken aan diverse burgercollectieven in Vlaanderen. Om te beginnen vertelde Henk Mol over de Buren van de Abdij in Gent, die zich richten op behoud van cultureel erfgoed, groen en sociale ontmoetingen. Daarna was het de b***t aan Thomas Blondeel van SMART, een coöperatieve vennootschap die ondernemers ondersteunt, veelal in de culturele sector. Onderzoeker Damion Bunders (RSM) presenteerde hier de voorlopige uitkomsten van zijn onderzoek naar werkercoöperaties. Op 21 mei ging de reis naar de Gemene en Loweiden in het West-Vlaamse Assebroek. Hoofdman Marc Vandepitte en professor Tine De Moor (RSM) vertelden over deze common, een springlevend burgercollectief waar zogenoemde aanborgers al 600 jaar het beheer van de grond organiseren.

09/05/2022

On 10 May Tine De Moor (Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University), Thijs Spaargaren (Schoongewoon Nederland), and Marijke Flamman-Schuil (NCR (Nationale Coöperatieve Raad)) are the speakers in the webinar 'The role of cooperatives in democratizing and greening the economy' of the Dutch chapter of . They talk about the lessons to be learnt from the experiences of modern-day cooperatives. For more information and registration: https://www.nonextractivefuture.eu/2022/03/02/democratizingwork-webinar-series/

Over the next few months, N-EXTLAW and are co-hosting a webinar series on ‘The Future of Work in the Netherlands – green, just, and democratic, or just the opposite?’. The series consists of three webinars, the second of which is now open for registration. Read more about th...