Mapping social enterprise models: some evidence from the “ICSEM” project

• Published in: Social enterprise journal Vol. 13; no. 4; pp. 318 - 328
• Main Authors: Defourny, Jacques, Nyssens, Marthe
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley Emerald Publishing Limited 06.11.2017; Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• Subjects: Civil society; Economics; Entrepreneurs; Exploitation; Matrices; Nonprofit organizations; Public interest; Public sector; Social entrepreneurship; Traditions; Typology; United Kingdom > UK; United States > US; Europe; International comparisons; Models; Trajectories; Social enterprise

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that it is feasible to theoretically and empirically build an international typology of social enterprise (SE) models. The authors first rely on their previous work (Defourny and Nyssens, 2017), suggesting that the concept of “interest principles” c...