Mapping social enterprises: past approaches, challenges and future directions
Mapping social enterprises: past approaches, challenges and future directions
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绘制社会企业图：过去的方法、挑战和未来的方向
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2009
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通讯作者：
Leandro Sepúlveda
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F. Lyon;Leandro Sepúlveda
目的-本文的目的是研究过去社会企业的地图绘制是如何进行的，以及目前研究面临的挑战。它特别注意所使用的定义以及如何将这些定义操作化。研究了挑战和未来的机遇，并为委托研究的政策制定者提出了建议。设计/方法/方法-本文借鉴了一系列不同的方法，即文献综述，与关键线人的访谈，与英国不同地区的社会企业支持提供者和研究人员的焦点小组类型讨论（2004年），以及2008年与政策制定者的焦点小组类型讨论。研究结果-有各种各样的方法，具有不同的定义和政治驱动的定义解释，这限制了比较结果的能力。一个特别的挑战是如何解释“交易收入”或“社会”目标的含义。这呈现出有趣的现象……
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how mapping of social enterprises has been carried out in the past, and the challenges being faced by current studies. It pays particular attention to the definitions used and how these definitions are operationalized. The challenges and future opportunities are examined, and recommendations are made for policy makers commissioning studies.Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on a range of different approaches, namely literature reviews, interviews with key informants, focus group type discussions with social enterprise support providers and researchers in different UK regions (in 2004), and focus group type discussions with policy makers in 2008.Findings – There has been a variety of approaches with different definitions and politically‐driven interpretations of definitions, which limits the ability to compare results. A particular challenge has been in interpreting what is meant by “trading income” or “social” aims. This presents interesting pol...