News and reflections shaping the sector

Since the first appearance of the Italian “Social Enterprise Review” (Rivista Impresa Sociale) back in 1990, prior to the first law on Social Enterprises (the Italian Law on Social Cooperatives from 1991), this concept has steadily gained recognition by practitioners, policymakers and researchers. However, this term is still far from having a fully and widely accepted definition, either a scientific or an operational one.