In the past decades, social enterprise has been an emerging field of research. Its main frameworks have been provided by Occidental approaches. Mainly based on
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 ob
If the twentieth century was only focused on the complementarity and the opposition of market and state, the twenty-first century has now to deal with the promi
Social enterprises represent a new kind of venture, dedicated to pursuing profits for owners and benefits for society. Social Enterprise Law provides tools that
This Handbook investigates all types of 'member owned' organizations, whether consumer co-operatives, agricultural and producer co-operatives, or worker co-oper