Social enterprise : at the crossroads of market, public policies and civil society /
Contributor(s): Nyssens, Marthe | Adam, Sophie | Johnson, Toby.
Series: Routledge studies in the management of voluntary and non-profit organizations: 7.Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006Description: xiv, 335 p. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415378788 (hbk.); 9780415378789:; 9780415378789 (hbk.); 0415378796 (pbk.); 9780415378796 (pbk.).Subject(s): Social entrepreneurship -- European Union countriesDDC classification: 658.401Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
This work develops a theory of social enterprise through a comparative analysis of social enterprises in Europe and examines three theoretical ideas: that they have a complex mixture of goals, that they mobilise different kinds of market and non-market resources and that they are embedded in the political context.