This article reviews research on Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISE) and social enterprises in Europe and analyses the current situation. WISE present paradigmatic examples of social enterprises within the framework of the emergence of European perspectives on social entrepreneurship and...

In the present article, we try to show that social capital can prove to be an interesting analytical tool in the field of the social economy, and more specifically within the theoretical corpus developed by the European EMES Network on social enterprise. Our analysis is based on three specific...

Work integration social enterprises are an emerging reality in the Spanish State, and both the number of such enterprises and the resources allocated to this area by the different regional Authorities are increasing exponentially. However, the studies carried out to date are largely descriptive...

This collection of original papers reveals why caseloads of the nation's two largest income entitlement programs for disability - Social Security Disability Income (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) - have soared.

The protected units are an answer to the employment increase goal for people with disabilities in Romania. With a history of two decades, the protected units system became visible in the context of the social economy. The present paper is based on qualitative research and focuses on how the...

In recent years, the notion of social entrepreneurship and its manifest linkage with the economic development and social change has quickly gained prominence in the general discourse of academics and policymakers. A social justification or motive is a key issue in the account for its existence....

The concept and the activities of social economy are not particularly developed in Greece. Several institutions have made some attempts to change that during the past few years but they failed due to the lack of the proper and flexible institutional frame that would administratively and...

Social economy could be considered a response to the crisis in Europe, a new European economic system able to unlock social innovation, growth and jobs and to achieve the set of ambitious objectives to be reached by 2020 in the five main areas: employment, innovation, climate change, education...

The given article reflects the situation of Slovak social economy. It takes into account and presents the evolution of social economy and its present perception in Slovakia. Within the Central European countries, Slovakia was the first country to define social economy in terms of legislative...

Advanced EU economies support and develop the social economy and social entrepreneurship, which contributes to building competitiveness and performance of the country. The concept of the social economy is not viewed uniformly in all Member States. France is considered the cradle of the...