Understanding social enterprise model development through discursive interpretations of social enterprise policymaking in Australia (2007-2013)

• Published in: Social enterprise journal Vol. 11; no. 2; pp. 138 - 155
• Main Authors: Mason, Chris, Barraket, Jo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley Emerald Group Publishing Limited 03.08.2015
• Subjects: Communication; Economic development; Entrepreneurship; Institutionalism; Ontology; Power; Social enterprise; Strategy; Studies; Writers; Australia; Political discourses; Australia; Social enterprise; Discursive institutionalism

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the prior work on social enterprise (SE) model comparisons by exposing the difficulties in producing universally comparative SE models. Furthermore, this paper seeks to trace different dominant stories of SE based on a combined historical and d...