Sustainable and innovative cooperation within the social enterprise ecosystem

In the shift towards the Big Society, it is widely proclaimed that citizen participation and citizens’ initiatives are indispensable to maintaining services that used to be run by local or regional governments. Despite the increased interest in citizens’ initiatives, research has scarcely debated what …

Against the backdrop of depopulation and Big Society, citizen initiatives in rural areas are believed to be able to mitigate service-provision inequalities between urban and peripheral regions. Factors influencing the success and failure of such citizen initiatives and their potential in providing solutions …

In Nederland nemen regionale verschillen in bevolkingsontwikkeling toe. De Randstad heeft te maken met bevolkingsgroei en dat zal naar verwachting de komende decennia ook zo blijven. De minder stedelijke en meer perifeer gelegen gebieden hebben in toenemende mate te kampen met bevolkingsstagnatie of …