Social Enterprise

Developing earlier theories of social enterprise through comparative analysis, and including contributions from an impressive list of industry leaders, this key text is essential reading for academics, researchers and students in the fields of the third sector and social policies.

Develops a theory of social enterprise through a comparative analysis of 160 social enterprises across 11 EU countries. With contributions from a list of academics, all members of the EMES European Research Network, this book is useful for academics, researchers and students in the fields of the third sector and social policies.

Autorentext

Marthe Nyssens is a professor at the Department of Economics of the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, where she is the co-ordinator of a research team on third sector and social policies (CERISIS). All the contributors are members of the EMES research network.

Klappentext

In one of its previous books, the EMES European Research Network traced the most significant developments in 'social entrepreneurship' emerging inside the third sector in Europe. Building upon that seminal work, this volume presents the results of an extensive research project carried out over a four-year period of a comparative analysis of 160 social enterprises across eleven EU countries. It breaks new ground in both its articulation of multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks and its rigorous analysis of empirical evidence based on a homogenized data collection methodology. Looking at work intergration, it is structured around a number of key themes (multiple goals and multiple stakeholders, multiple resources, trajectories of workers, public policies) developed through a transversal European analysis, and is illustrated with short country experiences that reflect the diversity of welfare models across Europe. With contributions from an impressive list of academics, all members of the EMES European Research Network, this rich follow-up volume to The Emergence of Social Enterprise is essential reading for academics, researchers and students in the fields of the third sector and social policies.

Inhalt

1. Multiple Goals and Multiple Stakeholder Structure: The Governance of Social Enterprises 2. The Key Role of Social Capital for Social Entrepreneurship 3. The Management of the Resource Mix inside European Social Enterprises 4. Profiles and Trajectories of Workers across European Work Integration Social Enterprises 5. Social Enterprises in Europe: Can Hybridisation be Sustainable? 6. Public Policies and Social Enterprises in Europe: The Challenge of Institutionalisation. Conclusions