Social Enterprise and the Third Sector (eBook, ePUB)

Changing European Landscapes in a Comparative Perspective
Redaktion: Defourny, Jacques; Pestoff, Victor; Hulgård, Lars

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The concepts of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship are attracting rapidly increasing attention from a wide audience and are perceived as defining innovative and dynamic responses to major global challenges in today's societies. Social Enterprise and the Third Sector presents the more comprehensive set of contributions reflecting the European side of this debate, with frequent connections to evolutions in other parts of the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134619719
• Artikelnr.: 41065360

Autorenporträt

Jacques Defourny is professor of third sector economics at HEC Management School, University of Liege (Belgium) where he is also a director of the Centre for Social Economy. He was a founding coordinator (1996-2001) and then the first president (2002-2010) of the EMES European Research Network. His work focuses on comparisons of social enterprise models across the world and on conceptual and quantitative analysis of the third sector both in developed as well as developing countries Lars Hulgård is professor of social entrepreneurship at Roskilde University (RUC), Denmark. He has been the president of the EMES International Research Network since 2010, and is the chair of the research group Social Innovation and Organizational Learning. He is the founder and co-director of the Centre for Social Entrepreneurship and his research interests are on the relation between civil society, the third sector and social entrepreneurship as well as the role of social enterprise in the transition of the welfare state Victor Pestoff is a professor at the Institute for Civil Society Studies, Ersta Sköndal University College in Stockholm, Sweden. His research focuses on the political impact of third sector organizations and cooperatives and he has published more than a dozen books on such topics. He is also a founding member of the EMES International Research Network

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to the Social Enterprise Field (Jacques Defourny, Lars Hulgård
and Victor Pestoff) Section I: The Dynamics of Social Enterprise and Social
Entrepreneurship: Theoretical Foundations 1.From Third Sector to Social
Enterprise: A European Research Trajectory (Jacques Defourny) 2.The EMES
Approach of social enterprise in a comparative perspective (Jacques
Defourny and Marthe Nyssens) 3.Social enterprise and the Third Sector -
Innovative service delivery or a non-capitalist economy? (Lars Hulgård)
4.Organizational variety in market economies and the emergent role of
socially oriented enterprises (Carlo Borzaga, Sara Depedri and Ermanno
Tortia) 5.The social and solidarity economy a theoretical and plural
framework (Jean-Louis Laville) 6.Solidarity-based Initiatives: Field
realities and analysis (Laurent Gardin) Section II: Social Enterprise,
Governance and Policy Issues 7.Major perspectives on governance of social
enterprise (Mike Aiken, Chris Cornforth, and Roger Spear) 8.Explaining
stakeholder involvement in social enterprise governance through resources
and legitimacy (Benjamin Huybrechts, Sybille Mertens, and Julie Rijpens) 9.
Multi-stakeholder governance in social enterprise (Isabel Vidal) 10. The
associative as governance structure (Bernard Enjolras) 11. European Work
integration social enterprises: between social innovation and isomorphism (
Marthe Nyssens) 12. Co-production and the Third Sector: the state of the
art in research (Taco Brandsen, Victor Pestoff, and Bram Verschuere)
13.Hybridity, Innovation and the Third Sector: the co-production of public
services (Victor Pestoff)