Social enterprise in Western Europe : : theory, models and practice / / edited by Jacques Defourny and Marthe Nyssens.

• Superior document: Routledge studies in social enterprise and social innovation
• TeilnehmendeR: Defourny, Jacques,; Nyssens, Marthe,
• Place / Publishing House: New York : : Taylor & Francis,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge studies in social enterprise and social innovation.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 pages) :; illustrations.

"In the last two decades, the quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise has been a central issue in a great number of publications. The main objective of the ICSEM Project on which this book is based was to show that the social enterprise field would benefit much more from linking conceptualisation efforts to the huge diversity of social enterprises than from an additional and ambitious attempt at providing an encompassing definition. Starting from a hypothesis that could be termed "the impossibility of a unified definition", the ICSEM research strategy relied on bottom-up approaches to capture the social enterprise phenomenon in its local and national contexts. This strategy made it possible to take into account and give legitimacy to locally embedded approaches, while simultaneously allowing for the identification of major social enterprise models to delineate the field on common grounds at the international level. Social Enterprise in Western Europe -the third volume in a series of four ICSEM-based books on social enterprise worldwide - will serve as a key reference and resource for teachers, researchers, students, experts, policy makers, journalists and others who want to acquire a broad understanding of the social enterprise and social entrepreneurship phenomena as they emerge and develop in this region"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Part I: National Overviews of Social Enterprise. -- 1. Unity in Diversity: Exploring the Multiple Facets of the Belgian Social Enterprise Landscape Benjamin Huybrechts, Marthe Nyssens and Jacques Defourny. -- 2. Social Enterprise in Denmark: Historical, Contextual and Conceptual Aspects Linda Lundgaard Andersen, Lars Hulgard and Gurli Jakobsen. -- 3. A New Typology of Social Enterprise in Finland: Capturing the Diversity Harri Kostilainen, Eeva Houtbeckers and Pekka Pattiniemi. -- 4. Social Enterprise in France: At the Crossroads of the Social Economy, Solidarity Economy and Social Entrepreneurship? Francesca Petrella, Nadine Richez-Battesti, Laurent Fraisse, Jean-Louis Laville and Laurent Gardin. -- 5. Social Enterprise in Germany: Between Institutional Inertia, Innovation and Cooperation Nicole Goeler von Ravensburg, Georg Mildenberger and Gorgi Krlev. -- 6. Social Enterprise in Iceland: The Long Journey Towards a Hybrid Welfare Model Steinunn Hrafnsdottir and Omar H. Kristmundsson. -- 7. Social Enterprise in Ireland: State Support Key to the Predominance of Work-Integration Social Enterprise (WISE) Patricia O'Hara and Mary O'Shaughnessy. -- 8. Social Enterprise in Italy: A Plurality of Business and Organisational Models Simone Poledrini and Carlo Borzaga. -- 9. Social Enterprise in the Netherlands: Between Hope and Hype Philip Marcel Karre. -- 10. Social Enterprises in Norway: Models and Institutional Trajectories Bernard Enjolras, Jill M. Loga, Lars U. Kobro and Hans A. Hauge. -- 11. Social Enterprise in Portugal: Concepts, Contexts and Models Silvia Ferreira and Joana Almeida. -- 12. Social Enterprise in Spain: From a Diversity of Roots to a Tentative Typology of Models Millan Diaz-Foncea, Esther Villajos, Teresa Savall, Carmen Guzman, Francisco Javier Santos, Marta Solorzano-Garcia, Chaime Marcuello-Servos, Rafael Chaves-Avila and Carmen Marcuello. -- 13. Social Enterprises in Sweden: Intertextual Consensus and Hidden Paradoxes Malin Gawell. -- 14. Social Enterprise Approaches in Switzerland Michael Gonin, Nicolas Gachet and Philipp Erpf. -- 15. Social Enterprise in the UK: Models and Trajectories Mike Aiken, Roger Spear, Fergus Lyon, Simon Teasdale, Richard Hazenberg, Mike Bull and Anna Kopec Massey. Part II: Comparative Analyses and Perspectives. -- 16. Social Enterprises in France, Portugal and Spain: Between Path Dependence and Institutional Creation? Francesca Petrella, Nadine Richez-Battesti, Marta Solorzano-Garcia and Silvia Ferreira. -- 17. Social Enterprise in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands: Where the Old Meets the New Philip Marcel Karre. -- 18. Between Coercive and Mimetic Institutional Isomorphism: Social Enterprise and the Universal Scandinavian Welfare State Bernard Enjolras, Linda Lundgaard Andersen, Malin Gawell and Jill M. Loga. -- 19. How Context Shapes the Character of Cooperative Social Enterprises: Insights from Various Countries Nicole Goeler von Ravensburg, Richard Lang, Simone Poledrini and Marzena Starnawska. -- 20. Testing the Relevance of Major Social Enterprise Models in Western Europe Jacques Defourny, Marthe Nyssens and Olivier Brolis.