Social Enterprise; Third Sector; Models; International Comparisons
Abstract :
[en] In response to the large number of definitions of social enterprise (SE), various works have sought to cope with such diversity through SE typologies. Many of them are however country-specific and only very few of them are built upon solid theoretical foundations. In order to overcome these weaknesses, the authors (2017) had put forward some fundamentals for an international typology, including four SE models. The objective of the present paper is to test the existence of these models on the basis of a dataset covering 721 SEs and resulting from a survey carried out in 43 countries. More precisely, the statistical exploitation of the dataset combined multiple factorial analysis with hierarchical cluster analysis. It appears that the existence of three of the four SE models—namely the social-business model, the social-cooperative model and the entrepreneurial nonprofit model—is strongly supported by the empirical analysis in almost all surveyed countries.
Research center :
CES - Centre d'Économie Sociale - ULiège
Disciplines :
Social economics
Author, co-author :
Defourny, Jacques ; Université de Liège - ULiège > HEC Liège : UER > UER Economie : Economie sociale et systèmes économiques
Nyssens, Marthe
Brolis, Olivier
Language :
English
Title :
Testing Social Enterprise Models Across the World: Evidence from the "International Comparative Social Enterprise Models (ICSEM) Project"
Publication date :
2020
Journal title :
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
ISSN :
0899-7640
eISSN :
1552-7395
Publisher :
SAGE Publications, New York, United States - New York
Volume :
50
Issue :
2
Pages :
420-440
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Name of the research project :
International Comparative Social Enterprise Models (ICSEM)
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