ABSTRACT
In the past decades, social enterprise has been an emerging field of research. Its main frameworks have been provided by Occidental approaches. Mainly based on an organizational vision, they give little or no room to questions such as gender, race, colonialism, class, power relations and intertwined forms of inequality. However, a wide range of worldwide hidden, popular initiatives can be considered as another form of social enterprises based on solidarity, re-embedding the economy as well as broadening the political scope. This has been shown in a previous book: Civil Society, the Third Sector, and Social Enterprise: Governance and Democracy.
Thus, to be more than a fashion or a fictitious panacea, the concept of social enterprise needs to be debated. Southern realities cannot be only understood through imported categories and outside modeled guidelines. This book engages a multicontinental and pluridisciplinary discussion in order to provide a pluralist theory of social enterprise. The book will be of interest to researchers, academics and students in the fields of social entrepreneurship, social innovation, development studies, management studies and social work.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|66 pages
Opening Dialogue for a New Conceptual Framework
part 2|155 pages
A Global Approach of Social Enterprise
chapter 5|26 pages
The Domestic Domain Within a Post-Colonial, Feminist Reading of Social Enterprise
chapter 7|26 pages
The Reconciliation Between Economic and Social in the Notion of Social Enterprise
chapter 10|29 pages
The Transformative Potential of Plural Social Enterprise
part 3|18 pages
Avenues for Further Research