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 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...