Social Enterprise: At the Crossroads of Market, Public Policies and Civil Society
Social Enterprise: At the Crossroads of Market, Public Policies and Civil Society
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社会企业:处于市场、公共政策和公民社会的十字路口
DOI:
10.1108/17465680810880107
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发表时间:
2008
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
Hervé Mesure
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作者:
Hervé Mesure
Marthe Nyssens is a major scholar in the third sector field. She is permanent 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 within the “Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur la Solidarité et l'Innovation Sociale”. She is a Member of the EMES that is an European research network about the social economy and the social enterprise.The book is written by about 20 European scholars recognized as pioneers for their work on third sector research, non‐profit organizations and social policy. This book is about social enterprises that are the last avatar of “non standard” enterprises. The book is founded on the EMES multidimensional definition of the social enterprise proposed by the EMES. A social enterprise is therefore an organization or a project that must be: a continuous activity producing and selling goods and/or services, have a high degree of autonomy; involve a significant level of economic risk, a minimum amount of paid work, have an explicit aim to benefit the community, be an initiative launched by a group of citizens, have a decision‐making power not based on capital ownership, be a participative organization which involves the various parties affected by its activity and involve limited profit distribution. Notice that this definition could be considered as the opposite of the neo‐capitalist enterprise. The social background of the social enterprise is the development of social exclusion in Europe.