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Social Enterprise in Western Europe
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ABSTRACT
In the last two decades, the quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise has been a central issue in a great number of publications.
The main objective of the ICSEM Project on which this book is based was to show that the social enterprise field would benefit much more from linking conceptualisation efforts to the huge diversity of social enterprises than from an additional and ambitious attempt at providing an encompassing definition. Starting from a hypothesis that could be termed "the impossibility of a unified definition", the ICSEM research strategy relied on bottom-up approaches to capture the social enterprise phenomenon in its local and national contexts. This strategy made it possible to take into account and give legitimacy to locally embedded approaches, while simultaneously allowing for the identification of major social enterprise models to delineate the field on common grounds at the international level.
Social Enterprise in Western Europe –the third volume in a series of four ICSEM-based books on social enterprise worldwide – will serve as a key reference and resource for teachers, researchers, students, experts, policy makers, journalists and others who want to acquire a broad understanding of the social enterprise and social entrepreneurship phenomena as they emerge and develop in this region.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |17 pages
Introduction
part Part I|250 pages
National Overviews of Social Enterprise
chapter 1|16 pages
Unity in Diversity
chapter 2|15 pages
Social Enterprise in Denmark
chapter 3|17 pages
A New Typology of Social Enterprise in Finland
chapter 4|16 pages
Social Enterprise in France
chapter 5|17 pages
Social Enterprise in Germany
chapter 6|10 pages
Social Enterprise in Iceland
chapter 7|19 pages
Social Enterprise in Ireland
chapter 8|18 pages
Social Enterprise in Italy
chapter 10|16 pages
Social Enterprises in Norway
chapter 11|18 pages
Social Enterprise in Portugal
chapter 12|18 pages
Social Enterprise in Spain
chapter 13|17 pages
Social Enterprises in Sweden
chapter 14|18 pages
Social Enterprise Approaches in Switzerland
chapter 15|16 pages
Social Enterprise in the UK
part Part II|82 pages
Comparative Analyses and Perspectives