Testing Social Enterprise Models Across the World: Evidence From the “International Comparative Social Enterprise Models (ICSEM) Project”

• Published in: Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 420 - 440
• Main Authors: Defourny, Jacques, Nyssens, Marthe, Brolis, Olivier
• Format: Journal Article Web Resource
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.04.2021; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Business & economic sciences; Economie sociale; Exploitation; International Comparisons; Sciences économiques & de gestion; Social economics; Social Enterprise; Third Sector; social enterprise; models; international comparison; third sector

In response to the large number of definitions of social enterprise (SE), various works have sought to cope with such diversity through SE typologies. Many of them are however country-specific and only very few of them are built upon solid theoretical foundations. To overcome these weaknesses, Defou...