Andrea Bassi Short Bio

ANDREA BASSI – SHORT BIO

Andrea Bassi is Associate Professor in Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Business Law – University of Bologna. He teaches “General Sociology”, “Sociology of Economy”, “Sociology of Nonprofit Organizations”, “Quantitative and Qualitative methods for Social Research” (

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 a PhD in “Sociology and Social Policy” and he is member of the School of Economics – University of Bologna – Forlì Campus.

He has also 10 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 in Rome (1995-96), and Director of IREF – Institute of Research on Education and Training in Rome (1997-99); under his supervision several national research programs has been carried out at the country level, (Voluntary Organizations - 10.000 units and National Social associations - 2.000 units). He is the Director of ESSE – European Summer School on Social Economy – Bologna University ( .

He is author of more than thirty articles published on Italian and International Scientific Journals and Reviews and of five books on the topic of Third Sector, Civil Society, Nonprofit Organizations.

He is member of the National Observatory of Pro-Social Association by the Ministry of Labor and Social Policies.

Publications in English and French

Bassi A. and Colozzi I.(2009), Leaders of Nonprofit (Third Sector) Organizations in Italy: Cultures of Three Types of Organizations, in “International Leadership Journal”, Vol. 1, Issue 3/4, Spring/Summer 2009.

Bassi A (2010), La mosaïque coopérative. Stratégies de réseaux de la coopération sociale à Ravenne, in Xabier Itcaina (sous la direction de), La politique du lien, Les nouvelles dynamiques territoriales de l’économie sociale et solidaire, aux Presse Universitaire de Rennes, pp. 109-126.

Bassi A. (2011) (Edit by), Breaking the Barriers. Improve access to long life learning in three European countries, Edup, Roma, pp. 175.

Bassi A. (2011), Interview with Stefano Zamagni: The Italian Third Sector, in “Nonprofit Policy Forum”, Volume 2, Issue 2, Pages 1–5, ISSN (Online) 2154-3348, DOI: 10.2202/2154-3348.1049, November 2011.

Bassi A. (2012) Book Review, Ola Segnestam Larsson, Standardizing Civil Society: Interpreting organizational development in the tension between instrumentalism and expressivism, Santérus Academic Press, Stockholm, 2011, pp. 280, in “Voluntas”, Vol. 23, n. 2, June 2012, pp. 520-522. ISSN 0957-8765 (Print) 1573-7888 (Online)

Bassi A. and Pfau-Effinger B., (2012) (Edit by), The Spirit of Welfare, in “Sociologia e PoliticheSociali”, Vol. 15, n.3, 2012, pp. 5-10 , Franco Angeli, Milano, ISSN 1591-2027, ISSNe1972-5116.

Bassi A.(2013), How to measure the intangibles, Towards a system of indicators (S.A.V.E.) for the measurement of the performance of social enterprises, in Hans-Werner Franz, JürgenHowaldt, Josef Hochgerner (eds) (2013), Challenge Social Innovation. Potentials for Business, Social Entrepreneurship, Welfare and Civil Society, Berlin, Springer, pp. 326-350. ISBN 978-3-642-32878-7

Bassi A.(2013), Another brick in the wall. Housing policy as a means to social integration: the role of nonprofit organizations.A case study in the municipality of Ravenna – Italy, in Juan-Luis Klein et Mathieu Roy (sous la direction de), Pour une nouvelle mondialisation: le défi d’innover, Presses de l’Université du Québec (Social Innovation Séries), Montréal, Canada, pp. 167-179. ISBN 978-2-7605-3622-7

Bassi A.(2013), Succession in Italian Nonprofits: A Survey, in “International Leadership Journal”, Vol. 5, Issue 1, Fall 2013, pp. 51-71. ISSN 1944-7426

Bassi A.(2014), The Social Added Value of Third Sector Organizations, in Boccacin L. (2014) (Edit by), Third Sector, Partnerships and Social Outcome. The Cases of Italy and Ireland, Vita e Pensiero, Milano, pp. 76-108. ISBN 978-88-343-2729-6

Bassi A.(2014) Book Review, David Billis (Editor), Hybrid Organizations and the Third Sector. Challenges for Practice, Theory and Policy, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2010, pp. 256, in “Nonprofit Policy Forum”, Volume 5, Issue 2, Pages 1–8, November 2014 (forthcoming).

Bassi A. (2014) Book Review of: Jacques Defourny, Lars Hulgard, Victor Pestoff (Edited by), Social Enterprise and the Third Sector. Changing European landscapes in a comparative perspective, Routledge, London and New York, 2014, pp. 279; in “Voluntas”,Volume 25, Issue 6 (2014), Page 1694-1696.