Social Enterprise Journal: Volume 5 Issue 1

Social enterprise and effectiveness: a process typology

Monica Diochon, Alistair R. Anderson

The purpose of this paper is to address the lack of conceptualisation within the emerging field of social enterprise, the aim is to contribute to a better understanding of process…

Extraordinarily ordinary: working in the social economy

Ash Amin

Policy actors around the world are increasingly looking to the social economy – markets explicitly oriented towards meeting social needs, usually through the third sector – to…

Co‐operative social enterprises: company rules, access to finance and management practice

Rory Ridley‐Duff

In light of the faster than expected take up of the community interest company (CIC) in the UK, the purpose of this paper is to revisit findings from a study undertaken in 2000 on…

Social enterprise and public sector voices on procurement

Sarah‐Anne Muñoz

Research on social enterprise and social entrepreneurship has sought to examine the role that can be played by selling to the public sector in the generation of social…

Mapping social enterprises: past approaches, challenges and future directions

Fergus Lyon, Leandro Sepulveda

The purpose of this paper is to examine how mapping of social enterprises has been carried out in the past, and the challenges being faced by current studies. It pays particular…

Editorial

Bob Doherty