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Social Enterprise in Latin America - Theory, Models and Practice (Hardcover)
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Social Enterprise in Latin America - Theory, Models and Practice (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Social Enterprise & Social Innovation
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In the absence of a widely accepted and common definition of social
enterprise (SE), a large research project, the "International
Comparative Social Enterprise Models" (ICSEM) Project, was carried
out over a five-year period; it involved more than 200 researchers
from 55 countries and relied on bottom-up approaches to capture the
SE phenomenon. This strategy made it possible to take into account
and give legitimacy to locally embedded approaches, thus resulting
in an analysis encompassing a wide diversity of social enterprises,
while simultaneously allowing for the identification of major SE
models to delineate the field on common grounds at the
international level. These SE models reveal or confirm an overall
trend towards new ways of sharing the responsibility for the common
good in today's economies and societies. We tend to consider as
good news the fact that social enterprises actually stem from all
parts of the economy. Indeed, societies are facing many complex
challenges at all levels, from the local to the global level. The
diversity and internal variety of SE models are a sign of a broadly
shared willingness to develop appropriate although sometimes
embryonic-responses to these challenges, on the basis of innovative
economic/business models driven by a social mission. In spite of
their weaknesses, social enterprises may be seen as advocates for
and vehicles of the general interest across the whole economy. Of
course, the debate about privatisation, deregulation and globalised
market competition-all factors that may hinder efforts in the
search for the common good-has to be addressed as well. The second
of a series of four ICSEM books, Social Enterprise in Latin America
will serve as a key reference and resource for teachers,
researchers, students, experts, policy makers, journalists and
other categories of people who want to acquire a broad
understanding of the phenomena of social enterprise and social
entrepreneurship as they emerge and develop across the world.
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