ABSTRACT
Social enterprise, generally understood as any market-based activity to address a social issue, has become a global movement to sustain socially beneficial initiatives. Organizations typically pursue social enterprise to achieve increased self-sufficiency, long-term sustainability, programmatic autonomy, and the empowerment of beneficiaries, though the emphasis on these returns can vary by context. While a strict definition of the term has been elusive, consensus on its broad parameters is coalescing around relative degrees of commercial and social activity. Different frameworks for social enterprise are instead being offered to explain the phenomenon on a more detailed, contextualized level. Indeed, scholarly interest in social enterprise has increased steadily over the past few decades and delves into an ever wider range of topics associated with it.
