Theoretical Study and Investigation into the Actual Conditions about the Roles of Non-profit Intermediate Organizations in the Welfare Society

这个研究项目试图从“Economie Sociale”的角度来研究不久的将来的社会经济状态，也就是社会经济。特别是，该项目的研究对象是后福利国家下的非营利部门，分析由社区企业、福利合作社、社会服务合作社、非营利组织、协会等组成的“第三部门”。本项目对其进行了一些研究，得出的结论是，欧洲国家基于社会经济概念的各种尝试，为近期思考社会经济制度提供了重要线索。特别是对西欧的社区企业、协会、社会合作社等非营利部门和北美的非营利组织的实际情况的研究或调查，掌握和了解是必不可少的。对英国的社区企业和福利合作社、法国和德国的工人合作社、意大利的社会合作社、西班牙的员工股份制企业（SAL）等进行研究具有重要意义。实际上，从现在开始，ICOM（英国）、NETZ（德国）、CGSCOP（法国）、LEGA（意大利）、Mondragon和COCETA（西班牙）、美国工人合作社联合会等都应该作为本研究的主题。本项目组的结论是，首先要分析20世纪90年代欧洲国家基于社区的社会服务（社区福利），然后与北美和日本的情况进行比较。

This research project is trying to investigate a socio-economic state in the near future in view of 'Economie Sociale', that is, the Social Economy. Especially, it is the object of this project to study the non-profit sector under the post Welfare State, with analyzing 'the Third Sector' that consists of community businesses, welfare co-operatives, social-service co-operatives, NPOs, associations and so on.As a result of carrying out some research into it, this project comes to the conclusion that many kinds of attempts based on the concept of the social economy in European countries give important clues to thinking about the socio-economic system in the near future. In particular, it is indispensable to grasp and understand the researches or investigation into the actual conditions about the non-profit sector consisting of community businesses, associations and social co-operatives in Western Europe ancl NPOs in North America.It is important to research on community businesses and welfare co-operatives in Britain, workers' co-operatives in France ancl Germany, social co-operatives in Italy, SAL (employees' stock ownership enterprises) in Spain and so on. Practically, ICOM (Britain), NETZ (Germany), CGSCOP (France), LEGA (Italy), Mondragon and COCETA (Spain), American Federation of Workers' Co-operatives and so forth should be taken up as the subject of this study from now on.This project team concludes that it is essential to analyze, first of all, social service based on a community (community-welfare) in European countries in 1990s, then, to compare it with North American and Japanese conditions.