Social enterprise : at the crossroads of market, public policies and civil society / edited by Marthe Nyssens with the assistance of Sophie Adam and Toby Johnson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nyssens, Marthe.

Adam, Sophie.

Johnson, Toby.

Series:

Routledge studies in the management of voluntary and non-profit organizations ; 7.

Routledge studies in the management of voluntary and non-profit organizations ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social entrepreneurship--European Union countries.

Social entrepreneurship.

European Union countries.

Physical Description:

xiv, 335 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Summary:

New organizations, driven by an entrepreneurial spirit but focused on social aims, are emerging throughout Europe. This important new text develops a comparative European analysis within a multidisciplinary framework to explore social enterprises. Breaking new ground, Social Enterprise combines theory with a rigorous analysis of 160 social enterprises across 11 EU countries to provide the reader with a thorough understanding of these complex organizations. The text is structured around a number of key themes (multiple goals and multiple stakeholders, multiple resources, trajectories of workers, public policies) and development through a pan-European analysis. Each theme is illustrated with short country experiences that reflect the diversity of welfare models across Europe. Social Enterprise is essential reading for all those who want to learn more about social enterprise.

Contents:

Defining social enterprise / Jacques Defourny and Marthe Nyssens

Pt. I. The governance of social enterprise

Work integration social enterprises : are they multiple-goal and multi-stakeholder organizations? / Sara Campi, Jacques Defourny and Olivier Grégoire

Danish social enterprises : a public-third sector partnership / Lars Hulgård

French social enterprises : a common ethical framework to balance various objectives / Elisabetta Bucolo

Multiple goals and multi-stakeholder management in Italian social enterprises / Carlo Borzaga and Monica Loss

Social entrepreneurship and the mobilization of social capital in European social enterprises / Lars Hulgård and Roger Spear

Pt. II. The balance of resources in social enterprise

A variety of resource mixes inside social enterprises / Laurent Gardin

Irish social enterprises : challenges in mobilizing resources to meet multiple goals / Mary O'Shaughnessy

Spain : weak public support for social enterprises / Isabel Vidal and Nuria Claver

A plurality of logics behind Finnish social enterprises / Pekka Pättiniemi

Pt. III. Profiles and trajectories of workers in work integration social enterprises

Profiles and trajectories of participants in European work integration social enterprises / Carlo Borzaga and Monica Loss

Work integration social enterprises in Portugal : a tool for work integration? / Heloísa Perista and Susana Nogueira

Sweden : social enterprises within a universal welfare state model / Yohanan Stryjan

Profiles of workers and net effect of Belgian work integration social enterprises / Marthe Nyssens and Alexis Platteau

Pt. IV. Public policies and social enterprise

Work integration social enterprises in Europe : can hybridization be sustainable? / Ingo Bode, Adalbert Evers and Andreas Schulz

Towards market or state? Tensions and opportunities in the evolutionary path of three UK social enterprises / Mike Aiken

Public policies and social enterprises in Europe : the challenge of institutionalization / Jean-Louis Laville, Andreia Lemaître and Marthe Nyssens

Where do we go from here? The unfinished story of work integration social enterprises in Germany / Ingo Bode, Adalbert Evers and Andreas Schulz

Social enterprises at the crossroads of market, public policy and civil society / Marthe Nyssens.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415378788

9780415378789

0415378796

9780415378796

OCLC:

67240147

Publisher Number:

99939317282