Biography
Andrea Bassi (PhD in Sociology and Social Policy) is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Department of Political and Social Sciences - Bologna University.He teaches: “Quantitative Methods for Social Research”, “Methodology of Social Sciences” and “Qualitative Methods and Social Intervention” at the School of Political Science and “Sociology of Third Sector” at the School of Economics and Management.
His research interests include: studies on nonprofit organizations in the field of social and health services, particularly concerning the relationships between public administration and nonprofit deliverers; and systems of measurement of organizational performance and social impact of nonprofit organizations.
He has 20 years of experience as Manager of nonprofit institutions in Italy, associations, social cooperatives, voluntary organizations and foundations, both at the local and national level. He has been Director of the research unit of FIVOL - Italian Foundation for Volunteers (1995-96) in Rome; Director of IREF – Institute of Research in Education and Training (1997-1999) in Rome; Director of Flaminia Foundation (2000-2006) in Ravenna.
He is member of ISTR – International Society for Third Sector Research and EMES – European Network on Social Economy. It has been Director of the Summer School ESSE – European Summer School on Social Economy – Bologna University; he is Director of the High Education Course in “Humanitarian and Health-Social Management” – Bologna University.
He is National Coordinator of the “Social Policy” Section of AIS – Italian Association of Sociology.
He is member of the National Observatory on Association by the Italian Ministry of Labour and Social Policy; and of a research group by ISTAT the National Institute of Statistics .
Recent Publications
Bassi A. and Vincenti G. (2015), Toward a New Metrics for the Evaluation of the Social Added Value of Social Enterprises, in “CIRIEC-España, Revista de Economía Pública, Social y Cooperativa”, Vol. N. 83, pp. 9-42.
Bassi A., Santora J., Sarros James; Esposito Mark; Bozer Gil (2015), Nonprofit Succession Planning and Organizational Sustainability: A Preliminary Comparative Study in Australia, Brazil, Israel, Italy, Russia and the U.S., in “The Journal of Applied Management and Entrepreneurship”, Vol. 20, N. 4, October 2015, pp. 66-83.
Bassi A., Young Dennis R. and Soh Jung-In (2016), Applying the Benefits Theory of Nonprofit Finance to Social Cooperatives, paper presented at the 12th International Conference of the International Society for Third Sector Research, Ersta Sköndal University College, Stockholm, Sweden, June 28 - July 1, 2016, pp. 1-23.
Bassi A., Ecchia, G. e Guerra, A. (2016), The Role of Social Economy in Three Social Investment Policy Fields. Working paper of the project: “Innovative Social Investment: Strengthening communities in Europe” (InnoSI), European Commission – Horizon 2020, European Commission, Research Executive Agency, Brussels 2016.
Bassi A., Ecchia, G. e Guerra, A. (2016), Social Innovation Policies with the Involvement of Social Economy Organizations. Survey Evidence from European Countries. Working paper of the project: “Innovative Social Investment: Strengthening communities in Europe” (InnoSI), European Commission – Horizon 2020, European Commission, Research Executive Agency, Brussels 2016.
Bassi A. and Lazzari A. (2016), The integrated system of early childhood education and care of the Emilia-Romagna Region. Case studies of innovative services; Research Report of the project: “Innovative Social Investment: Strengthening communities in Europe” (InnoSI), European Commission – Horizon 2020, European Commission, Research Executive Agency, Brussels 2016.
Bassi A. and Fabbri S. (2018), The “Farmers Markets” phenomenon: a survey on the Farmer Market’s customers in the city of Cesena, in Xabier Itçaina and Nadine Richez-Battesti (Edited by) (2018), Social and solidarity-based economy and territory: From Embeddedness to Co-construction, P.I.E. Peter Lang, Bruxelles, pp. 85-113.
Bassi A. (2018), Social Innovation and Social entrepreneurship in the field of Early Childhood Education and Care, in “Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity”, Vol. 7, N.2, 2018.
Baines S., Bassi A., Csoba J. and Sipos F. (2019) (Edited by), Implementing innovative social investment: Strategic lessons from Europe, Policy Press, Bristol; pp. 224.
Linkedin: Andrea Bassi
Twitter: @ariaeleo
