Social Enterprise : At the Crossroads of Market, Public Policies and Civil Society

ISBN-13: 9780415378789 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 336 str.

Marthe Nyssens

Opis

"Social Enterprise" Edited by Marthe Nyssens 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 developed 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. SERIES: "Routledge Studies in the Management of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organizations "Edited by Stephen P. Osborne

Spis treści

 1. Multiple Goals and Multiple Stakeholder Structure: The Governance of Social Enterprises  2. The Key Role of Social Capital for Social Entrepreneurship  3. The Management of the Resource Mix inside European Social Enterprises  4. Profiles and Trajectories of Workers across European Work Integration Social Enterprises  5. Social Enterprises in Europe: Can Hybridisation be Sustainable?  6. Public Policies and Social Enterprises in Europe: The Challenge of Institutionalisation.  Conclusions

O autorze

Marthe Nyssens is a professor at the Department of Economics of the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, where she is the co-ordinator of a research team on third sector and social policies (CERISIS). All the contributors are members of the EMES research network.