ABSTRACT
Most scholars who used the notions of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise twelve years ago share the feeling today that they would have been totally unable to foresee the outstanding interest such concepts are now attracting. Indeed, the use of the latter is now spreading in most regions of the world: after a first decade of literature development on both sides of the Atlantic since the late 1990s, research communities are emerging in Eastern and Central Europe (Borzaga et al., 2008), in most countries of Eastern Asia, including China (Defourny and Kuan, 2011), in India, Australia, Israel and in several Latin American countries.
