TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce the reader to the Nordic tradition of Critical Utopian Action Research (CUAR) and to demonstrate how CUAR might reinvigorate participatory democracy as an intrinsic characteristic of social enterprise. This leads us to sketch out the beginnings of how researchers might work with communities to help realise their democratic impulses through social enterprise.Design/methodology/approach This paper aims to synthesise the participatory action research literature, particularly CUAR, with literature on social enterprise and democracy to demonstrate how the two approaches might fruitfully be combined.Findings The authors show how CUAR might be utilised by researchers, to articulate new social enterprise organisational responses to local problems or to reinvigorate democracy within existing social enterprises.Originality/value This exploratory paper marks (we believe) the first attempt to bring together social enterprise and CUAR.
VL  - 16
IS  - 1
SN  - 1750-8614
DO  - 10.1108/SEJ-02-2019-0012
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/SEJ-02-2019-0012
AU  - Gleerup Janne
AU  - Hulgaard Lars
AU  - Teasdale Simon
PY  - 2019
Y1  - 2019/01/01
TI  - Action research and participatory democracy in social enterprise
T2  - Social Enterprise Journal
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 46
EP  - 59
Y2  - 2024/04/16
ER  -