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Professors Miguel Guillén and Eloi Serrano, members of the Social Economy Chair of the TecnoCampus and the Center for Analysis and Development of the Social Economy of Catalonia (CADESC), have just published an article on the role of trade unions in the conversion of bankrupt companies towards social economy models in the CIRIEC Journal of Public, Social and Cooperative Economy, under the title "The role of unions in the conversion of commercial companies in bankruptcy in social economy companies: a review of the literature and Spanish and Argentine cases".

Through a review of the academic literature, the article examines how unions became involved in worker-led business recovery, specifically in the cases of Spain and Argentina. The study situates these dynamics in labor movements, workers' ownership, and self-management as alternatives to traditional labor relations. In the Spanish case, special attention is paid to the case of labor societies, while in the Argentine case, the so-called "recovered companies" are addressed. 

The paper argues that Spain's structured collaboration contrasts with Argentina's grassroots resilience, and concludes that unions can play a crucial catalytic role if they adopt the principles of self-management, strengthen cooperative alliances, and foster new institutional frameworks that link work, social economy, and democratic ownership. 

The article has been published in number 115 of the Revista d'Economia Pública, Social i Cooperativa CIRIEC, of ​​November 2025, a monograph entitled "The participation of people trabajadoras en la empresa", coordinated by Isabel-Gemma Fajardo, full professor of Mercantile Law at the University of Valencia. The journal is internationally recognized as one of the best specialized journals in the field of social economy and is indexed in Clarivate's WOS system (JCR journal positioned in Q3). It is also positioned in the Q1/Q2 quartiles of SJR scimago, Citescores and the Fecyt economy ranking.

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