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Eric Bidet and Jacques Defourny (Eds.): Social Enterprise in Asia: Theory, Models and Practice

Eric Bidet and Jacques Defourny’s edited book Social Enterprise in Asia: Theory, Models, and Practice is by far the most comprehensive and extensive scholarly collaboration on social enterprises and social economy in Asia. This book covers multiple sub-Asian regions (East, South, and Southeast Asia) and seven comprehensive Asian country chapters… Read More

Academy of Korean Studies International Conference: Reciprocity in Comparison: Spain, Vietnam, Italy, and Korea

On October 29th, 2020, the Academy of Korean Studies in South Korea held an international conference online. The title of the conference was “Reciprocity in Comparison: Spain, Vietnam, Italy, and Korea”. The research presented was wide-ranging, very relevant to cooperative enterprises, which comprise a large and growing sector of social… Read More

The Usefulness of Sharing Social Impact Data. Early Findings from an International Benchmarking on SROI Assessments

This paper aims at investigating a perspective for the social impact measurability by collecting and analysing open data at the international level. Our goal is to shed light on the unlocked potential of the knowledge produced by a global community of scholars and practitioners engaged in social impact measurement processes. Read More

Social Enterprises and Welfare Systems. The Role of Multi-stakeholder Governance and Price Discrimination

Social enterprises (SEs) have been active for some decades and have been regulated by law in several countries. Their operation showed ability to complement the provision of welfare services, especially social services, by the public sector and private enterprises, and to innovate in the introduction of new services, organizational and… Read More

Cultural Third Sector Organizations and Local Development: New Actors and Tools for Urban Regeneration in Deprived Contexts

The importance of the creative and cultural capital in the economic development of post industrial inner cities has been widely demonstrated by urban development literature as it interacts with the physical environment and sustains regeneration processes. However, also in depressed and peripheral neighbourhoods, creative firms, museums, nonprofit organizations, cultural associations,… Read More

Janelle A. Kerlin (Ed.): Shaping Social Enterprise: Understanding Institutional Context and Influence

Over the last two decades, social enterprise (SE) has received increasing attention from policymakers, practitioners and scholars, who have explored this phenomenon from various angles. The comparative analysis of SEs across countries represents one of the newest avenues of research (Kerlin, 2010; 2013). While essential steps forwards have been made… Read More

Empower-SE COST Action International Research Workshop: Towards and enabling ecosystem for social enterprises

The Research Workshop “Towards an enabling ecosystem for social enterprises”, organized within the framework of the COST Action “Empowering the next generation of social enterprise scholars” (Empower-SE)1 was held at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work in February 2020. The event was built around research results… Read More

Advancing the Theory of Cooperative Organization: Interrogating the Developing Country Perspectives

This paper attempts to theorize producers’ cooperatives as an organizational form in the context of developing countries, by using Williamson’s approach of comparative economic organizations. The idea of composite efficiency has been introduced here, by bringing in the notion of distributional efficiency. Detailed theorization of different types of organizations following… Read More

Social and Relational Variables in Worker Cooperatives: Implications for the Objective Function

Traditional economic theory is focussed on a particular type of firm profit maximisation in which labour is a production factor and its social characteristics are not considered. However, in interpersonal relationships, even those in the workplace, identity and sociality play a role in workforce productivity and can change the objective… Read More

Exploring the History of the First Social Enterprise Type: Social Co-Operation in the Italian Welfare System and its Replication in Europe, 1970s to 2011

“Social enterprise” is an umbrella term that covers a broad range of organisations, which differ to a greater or lesser extent in their visibility, scope and dissemination, in the various countries, but which share the explicit pursuit of social objectives, in the world of business and in an on-going manner,… Read More