Social Enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe Theory, Models and Practice

• Main Authors: Defourny, Jacques, Nyssens, Marthe
• Format: eBook Book Web Resource
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom Routledge 2021; COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Studies in Social Enterprise & Social Innovation
• Subjects: Bulgaria; Business; Business & economic sciences; Business & Economics; Business and Management; Central / national / federal government; Central / national / federal government policies; Central and Eastern European countries; cooperatives; Croatia; Czech Republic; Development Economics; Economic History; Economics; Economics, Finance, Business and Management; Economics. Production; Economie sociale; Entrepreneurial Challenges; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship / Start-ups; Europe - Social Policy; Georgia; Hungary; ICSEM project; Innovation Management; Insitutional Perspectives; Latvia; Lithuania; Mitteleuropa; New Developments; Nonfiction; NPOs; Osteuropa; Poland; Politics and government; Public & Nonprofit Management; public policy; Romania; Russia; Sciences économiques & de gestion; Slovak Republic; Social economics; social enterprise models; Social Entrepreneurship; Social entrepreneurship > Europe, Central; Social entrepreneurship > Europe, Eastern; social entrepreneuship; social mission; Social Policy; Society and Social Sciences; Sozialwirtschaft; typology of models; SE Mission; ICSEM project; Solidarity Economy Enterprises; SE; EMES Approach; Civil Society; Social Business; Social Business Model; Central and Eastern European countries; Public Benefit Company; Social Entrepreneurship; Positive Social Impact; UN; Public Administration; EU Definition; Social Entrepreneurs; Earned Income Strategies; Public Benefit Organisations; EMES Network; WISEs; SE Type; Institutional Trajectories; Cee Country; social enterprise models; SE Ecosystem; SE Status; Agricultural Credit Cooperatives; SE Development
• DOI: 10.4324/9780429324529
• ISBN: 9781000367157; 1000367150; 0367342197; 9780367342197; 9780367747312; 0367747316; 9780429324529; 0429324529; 9781000367225; 1000367223

In the last two decades, the quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise has been a central issue in a great number of publications. The main objective of the ICSEM Project (on which this book is based) was to show that the social enterprise field would benefit much more from linking conceptualisation efforts to the huge diversity of social enterprises than from an additional and ambitious attempt at providing an encompassing definition. Starting from a hypothesis that could be termed "the impossibility of a unified definition", the ICSEM research strategy relied on bottom-up approaches to capture the social enterprise phenomenon in its local and national contexts. This strategy made it possible to take into account and give legitimacy to locally embedded approaches, while simultaneously allowing for the identification of major social enterprise models to delineate the field on common grounds at the international level. Social Enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe – the last volume in a series of four ICSEM-based books on social enterprise worldwide — will serve as a key reference and resource for teachers, researchers, students, experts, policy makers, journalists and others who want to acquire a broad understanding of the social enterprise and social entrepreneurship phenomena as they emerge and develop in this region.