Social Enterprise in Western Europe Theory, Models and Practice

• Main Author: 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: Business; Business & economic sciences; Business & Economics; Business and Management; cooperatives; Croatia; Czech Republic; Denmark; Development; Development Economics; Development economics and emerging economies; Economic Development; Economics; Economics, Finance, Business and Management; Economics. Production; Economie sociale; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship / Start-ups; Europe; Europe - Social Policy; European public policy; Finland; France; Germany; Hungary; ICSEM project; Innovation Management; Ireland; Italy; Non-profit Organisation; Non-profit Sector Management; Nonfiction; NPOs; Poland; Public & Nonprofit Management; Sciences économiques & de gestion; social business; Social change; Social economics; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Social entrepreneurship-Europe-History; Social Innovation; social mission; Social Policy; Sozialer Wandel; Sozialwirtschaft; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; typology of models; United Kingdom; Westeuropa; Hospital Clowns; Innovation Management; Solidarity Economy; Social Business; Social Business Model; Explicit Social Aim; Social Entrepreneurs; EMES Network; WISEs; Hungary; Development Economics; Specific Legal Form; Social Enterprise UK; European public policy; Finland; Italy; Non-profit Sector Management; Social Enterprise; Non-profit Organisation; Germany; Social Start Ups; Term Social Enterprise; ICSEM project; Social Innovation; Sweden; SE; Civil Society; Commercial Enterprises; Ireland; Poland; Social Entrepreneurship; Social Economy Organisations; Social Policy; France; Public Administration; Social Economy Tradition; Work Integration Enterprises; Croatia; ABN AMRO; Community Interest Companies; United Kingdom; Italian Social Cooperative; Switzerland; Spain; Czech Republic; Social Initiative Cooperative; Entrepreneurship; Denmark; Societal Entrepreneurship
• ISBN: 0429621779; 9780429621772; 9780367151188; 0367724316; 9780367724313; 0367151189; 9780429055140; 0429055145; 9780429619625; 0429619626
• DOI: 10.4324/9780429055140

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 Western Europe –the third 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.