A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN EUROPE, USA AND JAPAN ON THE ROLE OF THE THIRD SECTOR IN THE POST-WELFARE STATES

(1)在本项目的最后一年，我们努力深化对社会经济、社会企业和社会资本的理论研究。我们的项目组召开了会议，讨论了关于社会企业的理论框架，以撰写本研究项目的最终报告。我们讨论的主题是社会企业是否能够在福利社会中发挥社会服务的关键作用。(2)为了进行比较研究，我们对几个国家的社会企业和团结经济进行了实地考察。1)我们的一些团队成员对英国的社会企业进行了实地考察。他们访问了伦敦社会企业、桑德兰社会企业、Account Three(伦敦)等机构和组织。他们研究了志愿和社区组织(VCO)和支持VCO的中间组织。2)另一方面，我们的一些成员研究了西班牙的社会企业、农业合作社和工人合作社，特别是马德里和蒙德拉根。他们还收集了关于西班牙合作社运动和社会经济的材料。3)项目小组的一名成员出席了在(塞内加尔)达喀尔举行的第三次国际会议，就团结经济交流意见。来自北美、南美和欧洲国家的众多研究人员参加了会议。(3)合作研究人员撰写了关于社会经济、社会企业的论文，并在一些学术会议上做了报告。(4)首席调查员撰写了这本书，书名是《社会企业与社区的再生》。这本书是这项研究项目的成果之一。

(1)In the last year of this project, we had tried to deepen our theoretical study on the social economy, social enterprises and social capital. Our project team had held meetings and discussed the theoretical framework about social enterprises to write the final report of this research project. The main theme of our discussion was whether the social enterprise will or not be able to play a key role of the social services in the welfare society.(2)We had made field studies of social enterprises and solidarity economies in the several countries for our comparative study.1)Some of our team members made field studies of social enterprises in Britain. The institutions and organizations they visited were Social Enterprise London, Social Enterprise Sunderland, Account Three (London) and etc. They did research voluntary and community organizations (VCOs) and intermediate organizations for supporting VCOs.2)On the other hand, some of our members did research of social enterprises, agricultural co-operatives and workers' co-operatives in Spain, especially Madrid and Mondragon. They also collected the material on the Spanish co-operative movement and social economy.3)A member of the project team attended the 3rd international meeting held in Dakar (Senegal) to exchange views about the solidarity economy. Many researchers participated in the meeting from North and South America, European countries.(3)The co-researchers wrote papers on the social economy, social enterprises and reported at some academic meetings(4)The head investigator wrote the book, the title of which is Social Enterprise and Regeneration of Communities. This book is one of the results of this research project.