Purpose: The social economy – including not-for-profits, cooperatives, mutual organisations and social enterprises – is playing a stronger role than ever in the delivery of public policy. Yet, these organisations are often anecdotally viewed as relatively inefficient providers. The purpose...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the prior work on social enterprise (SE) model comparisons by exposing the difficulties in producing universally comparative SE models. Furthermore, this paper seeks to trace different dominant stories of SE based on a combined historical...

Purpose This paper aims to explore the well-being impacts of social enterprise, beyond a social enterprise per se , in everyday community life. Design/methodology/approach An exploratory case study was used. The study’s underpinning theory is from relational geography, including Spaces of...

Purpose This paper aims to document the nature of social enterprise models in Australia, their evolution and institutional drivers. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on secondary analysis of source materials and the existing literature on social enterprise in Australia. Analysis was...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an Australian case study and to explore how social enterprises may be conceptualised as spaces of well-being, that is the ways in which social enterprises, not explicitly delivering health services, may be producing health and well-being...