The doctoral program formally consists of two lines of research:
- Main line of research in Social Economy, Economics, Business and Social Sciences
- Interdisciplinary line of research and Law in Social Economy
These research lines work on the following research topics:
Topics Research
- Social Economy. Theoretical approaches
- Quantification of Social Economy. National Accounts and Satellite Accounts. Disability statistics. Measuring social impact
- Social Economy, dynamics of occupation and collective self-employment and self-management.
- Cooperative training. Transitions between education and occupation. Distance learning (e-learning)
- Cooperative and social economy law.
- Employment and labor relations in the Social Economy.
- Public policies and social and solidarity economy. Policies for the promotion of cooperatives. Design and evaluation
- Strategic Management of Cooperative and Social Economy Enterprises. Economic performance of Social Economy enterprises
- Legal regime of worker-members in cooperatives and worker-owned companies/social economy as a mechanism for social and labor insertion of vulnerable groups
- Information and communication technologies applied to the Social Economy. Participation via ICT. ICT and fundamental rights. Intellectual property. Cooperative platforms and collaborative economy
- Labor Companies, Professional Companies, investee companies
- Structural modifications. Transformation, merger, spin-off and global assignment of assets and liabilities, segregation, improper mergers. Groups of social economy companies.
- New models of supply of social welfare services - dependency services. Social Services, Social Action and Third Sector. Public-private collaboration
- Social and labor policies. Fundamental rights in employment contracts. Social rights. Associated work cooperatives. Occupational Risk Prevention. International mobility
- Social economy/Cooperatives/Savings Banks/Mergers and other similar operations/ ICTs.
- Taxation of cooperatives, non-profit entities and other Social Economy entities
- Ethical or responsible consumer behavior. Consumer behavior in fair trade. Just Trade and Marketing. Social marketing. Influence of Corporate Social Responsibility in the relationship with stakeholders.
- Foundations, Associations. Patronage and fundraising
- Local and territorial development and social economy
- Social Economy, gender and women
- Corporate Social Responsibility. Marketing and corporate social responsibility
- Insertion companies and social and labor insertion. Special Occupation Centers.
- Housing cooperatives. Cohousing
- Economy of the common good. Solidarity economy.
- Social enterprises. Social economy, culture and creative industries
- Business creation and social entrepreneurship. Creation of worker cooperatives and social enterprises.
- Economic analysis and management of the Non-Profit Sector / Third Sector. Volunteering and volunteer management
- Accounting of cooperatives and social economy entities.
- Governance, self-management and economic democracy. Management, participation and representation of social economy enterprises. Organizational aspects and relations with third parties.
- Transitions in the labor world in populations at risk
- Agri-food cooperativism. Rural development and agricultural cooperativism in Latin America
- Social and non-profit marketing
- Social innovation, innovation systems and business networks. Regional development, cluster dynamics and innovation economy
- Cooperative credit, ethical finance, social currencies, microcredits and other financial entities of the social economy.
