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Conceptions of Social Enterprise in Europe: A Comparative Perspective with the United States

In: Social Enterprises

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  • Jacques Defourny
  • Marthe Nyssens

Abstract

The concepts of ‘social enterprise’, ‘social entrepreneurship’ and ‘social entrepreneur’ were almost unknown or at least unused some 20 or even ten years ago. In the last decade, however, they have become much more discussed on both sides of the Atlantic, especially in EU countries and the United States. They are also attracting increasing interest in other regions, such as east Asia (Defourny and Kim, 2011) and Latin America.

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  • Jacques Defourny & Marthe Nyssens, 2012. "Conceptions of Social Enterprise in Europe: A Comparative Perspective with the United States," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Benjamin Gidron & Yeheskel Hasenfeld (ed.), Social Enterprises, chapter 3, pages 71-90, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-03530-1_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137035301_4
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    1. Paolo Popoli, 2017. "Corporate Social Innovation in Comparison with Corporate Social Responsibility: Integration, Development or Replacement?," International Business Research, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 10(10), pages 148-155, October.
    2. Babita Bhatt & Israr Qureshi & Suhaib Riaz, 2019. "Social Entrepreneurship in Non-munificent Institutional Environments and Implications for Institutional Work: Insights from China," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 154(3), pages 605-630, February.
    3. Piabuo, Serge Mandiefe & Hoogstra-Klein, Marjanke & Ingram, Verina & Foundjem-Tita, Divine, 2022. "Community forest enterprises (CFEs) as Social Enterprises: Empirical evidence from Cameroon," Forest Policy and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 135(C).
    4. Heidi Myyryläinen & Lasse Torkkeli, 2022. "Corporate Social Responsibility in Social SMEs: Discourses of Prosocial Behavior in Individual, Organizational, and Societal Levels," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(11), pages 1-20, May.
    5. Lall, Saurabh Ajay, 2017. "Measuring to Improve Versus Measuring to Prove: Understanding the Adoption of Social Performance Measurement Practices in Nascent Social Enterprises," SocArXiv 8wa5c, Center for Open Science.
    6. Carla Del Gesso, 2021. "An Entrepreneurial Identity for Social Enterprise across the Institutional Approaches: From Mission to Accountability toward Sustainable Societal Development," International Journal of Business and Management, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 15(1), pages 1-16, July.
    7. Cieslik, Katarzyna, 2016. "Moral Economy Meets Social Enterprise Community-Based Green Energy Project in Rural Burundi," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 83(C), pages 12-26.
    8. Lamberto Zollo & Massimiliano M. Pellegrini & Gugliemo Faldetta & Riccardo Rialti, 2023. "How to combine multiple identities and gaining stakeholders legitimacy in hybrid organizations? An organizational design response," Journal of Management & Governance, Springer;Accademia Italiana di Economia Aziendale (AIDEA), vol. 27(4), pages 1189-1222, December.

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