In the last two decades, the quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise has
been a central issue in a great number of publications. The main objective of the ICSEM …

In the context of the recent economic crisis and rising inequality, interest in the Social and
Solidarity Economy (SSE) as a viable alternative economic model has gathered pace in …

In this article, we consider the status of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise in
relation to government and public administration practice. For this purpose, we present and …

The article aims to present the Swiss landscape of work integration social enterprises
(WISEs). The origins of SEs are rooted within three distinct social security regimes, ie …

The discourse of entrepreneurship became a pervasive force of social imagination during
the 1980s (Cohen and Musson, 2000). Whilst at first used mainly to denote economic …

This working paper focuses on work integration social enterprises (WISE) in Switzerland.
The results are taken from a current nationwide research project titled “Social firms as the …

Unternehmerische Orientierung (EO) ist für den wirtschaftlichen Erfolg von
Genossenschaften von entscheidender Bedeutung. Bisher wurde in der …

The question why social enterprises (SEs) adopt particular governance structures and legal
forms is tremendously complex (Ebrahim et al. 2014), and the state of literature on the …

Switzerland's specific position at the crossroads of the German, French and Italian cultures
results in a complex and rather segmented field of social enterprise (SE). Language and …

This working paper focuses on work integration social enterprises (WISE) in Switzerland.
The results are taken from a current nationwide research project titled “Social firms as the …