Abstract
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The present article shall analyse how organizations can activate stakeholder participation processes. Specifically, this article
examines select participatory projects that were identified, developed and implemented within a network of Italian social
cooperatives focusing on work integration. An area, therefore, in which worker participation is geared at pursuing explicit
social objectives whilst enhancing innovative capacity, thus improving overall competitiveness and economic sustainability.
Within this context, the paper focuses in particular on the organizational processes and schemes that promote stakeholder
empowerment and active involvement, beyond the existence of formal governance structures and management bodies. The paper
is structured in two parts. The first draws from the literature to analyse the importance of participation within companies,
focusing on social enterprises, and discusses the structural and procedural features of inclusive governance. The second part
examines the experience of the CAUTO network of social cooperatives in Italy and its participatory practices, paying particular
attention to the key features of the organizational context in which they arose, the project structure that characterized
them, and their replicability in other contexts.
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