Social Enterprises and Institutions for Collective Action

You are warmly invited to the PhD defence of Damion Bunders on 15 March 2024 at 10:30 in the Senaatszaal of Erasmus University Rotterdam. The dissertation is about platform cooperatives as an alternative form of organisation where gig workers own and manage a digital platform collectively. It includes an analysis of the challenges these cooperatives … Continue reading PhD defence – Gigs of their Own: Can platform cooperatives become resilient?

Join us for a seminar with ­­Arjan van Dorsselaer, a PhD Candidate from Utrecht University. He studies the drivers of social entrepreneurial ecosystems and how these influence the various scaling strategies employed by social enterprises. He will present a paper titled: "From Theory to Scaling Strategy: The Role of Community Capital in Social Entrepreneurial Ecosystems".  This … Continue reading SEICA Open Seminar Talk: Arjan van Dorsselaer

On March 28, Professor Tine De Moor from the Rotterdam School of Management (EUR) gives a seminar at the Amsterdam Business School (UvA), titled: ‘Contagious Institutions? A longitudinal study of institutional spill-over effects of European guilds and other forms of institutions for collective action.‘ Read the abstract here

Professor Tine De Moor from the Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) will give a lecture titled: ‘The commons as a form of institution for collective action, in longitudinal perspective‘. This seminar is part of Leibniz University Hannover’s summer semester lecture series ‘Between Eden and the Fall: Common Land in Early Modern and Modern Western Europe’.

Join us for a SEICA seminar with dr. Axel Frejman, a researcher in Classical Archaeology at Uppsala University. His research has to a large degree revolved around Greek sanctuaries in both modern-day Greece and Turkey. Special research interests include commons and shared resources. During this seminar, he will give a presentation titled: "Commons in Ancient … Continue reading SEICA Open Seminar Talk: Axel Frejman

Professor Tine De Moor from the Rotterdam School of Management will give this year's Rotterdam Lecture. This is the annual gift to the city, on behalf of the Erasmus University Rotterdam and Erasmus Trust Fund. The lecture is titled: 'How value becomes resilient. Building the community economy in Rotterdam' and will be held in Dutch. … Continue reading Rotterdamlezing by professor Tine De Moor

Do you want to do research on how organisations can be key drivers of social change and sustainable development? Are you, for example, interested in institutions for collective action and alternative organisational and governance forms? Then apply for a fully funded PhD position in Sustainability and Management with our department Business-Society Management (B-SM), Erasmus University.The application … Continue reading Application deadline – PhD in Sustainability and Management

Session 'Oplossingen voor de toekomst: voorbij groei in een economie van gemeenschap' by dr. Thomas Bauwens and Felix van Hoften

Session ‘Oplossingen voor de toekomst: voorbij groei in een economie van gemeenschap‘ by dr. Thomas Bauwens and Felix Hoften

Nieuwe Instituut Zoöp, together with the research and design initiatives Charging the Commons and Dark Matter Lab, is organising a workshop to explore how design can contribute to the technological and organisational conditions of a more-than-human consciousness. What kind of ‘relational interfaces’ can help us to imagine relationships with each other, different life forms and … Continue reading Charging the Commons Workshop: Relational interface for more-than-human commons

After the results of the European elections of June 6, we will meetup in the Rotterdam Library for inspiration for the political future. The episode of VPRO Tegenlicht about the book 'Doppelganger' by Naomi Klein is the central point of discussion during this event. According to author Klein, we must look for the answer in … Continue reading Meetup about Tegenlicht episode: ‘Naomi Klein and the Pull to the Right’

The overall theme of the 2024 conference in Dundee, Scotland is: ‘Co-operatives, Hybrids, and Democratic Organisations as the Future of Sustainable and Equitable Socio-Economic Development: Operationizing Co-operatives and Democratic Organizations to address contemporary challenges and problems’.