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Social enterprises: enterprises with a difference?
[L’entrepreneuriat social, une autre façon d’entreprendre ?]

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  • Nathalie Schieb-Bienfait

    (CRGNA - Centre de Recherche en Gestion Nantes Atlantique - IEMN-IAE Nantes - Institut d'Économie et de Management de Nantes - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - UN - Université de Nantes)

  • Caroline Urbain

    (CRGNA - Centre de Recherche en Gestion Nantes Atlantique - IEMN-IAE Nantes - Institut d'Économie et de Management de Nantes - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - UN - Université de Nantes)

Abstract

This article considers the issue of social entrepreneurship, in particular organizational creation, based on an exploratory study carried out in the elderly home-care services sector. From the emergence of an enterprise plan to the creation of a productive project, the study questions the validity of the assertion, "enterprises with a difference," by seeking to understand both the conditions for the creation of these forms of organizations and the process of how these productive projects are structured as entities organized for multiple purposes. The authors show both the richness and the diversity of the entrepreneurial processes that give rise to nonprofit organizations and propose an alternative vision of nonprofit entrepreneurs' "difference."

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  • Nathalie Schieb-Bienfait & Caroline Urbain, 2004. "Social enterprises: enterprises with a difference? [L’entrepreneuriat social, une autre façon d’entreprendre ?]," Post-Print hal-04646041, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04646041
    DOI: 10.7202/1022099ar
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