This article is a revised and updated version of an earlier publication2. It begins by looking at the issue of the definition of the third sector arguing in favour of a coming together of the concepts of civil society and social economy - what they share as core values outweighing their...

Social Businesses boomen weltweit. Es handelt sich dabei um eine neue, hybride Form sozialer Unternehmen: Sie wollen keine Gewinne maximieren, doch sie arbeiten - wie herkömmliche Unternehmen - gewinnorientiert. Allerdings ist das Social Business im Vergleich zu klassischen...

This paper argues that mainstreaming SMEs and SE into various international treaties will require the assumption of positive externalities which markets cannot fully evaluate. To show this, the possible influence that SEs may have on SME development and eventually on employment will be...

Seit einigen Jahren ist an deutschsprachigen Hochschulen eine boomartige Ausweitung von Studiengängen im Bereich Sozialmanagement / Sozialwirtschaft festzustellen. Flankiert wird dieser Trend von tiefgreifenden Veränderungen des europäischen sowie nationalen Hochschul- und Studiengangssystems...

This paper provides an overview on the state of art of research on social entrepreneurship and the establishment of this topic in the academic world. It uses scientometric methods, especially bibliometrics, in measuring the maturity of social entrepreneurship research. The empirical part reveals...

We develop a model that explains variation in adoption patterns of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)-related business practices in cases after multinational corporations (MNCs) have acquired social enterprises. Existing approaches that seek to explain these differences remain theoretically...

How do barely incentivized norms impact incentive-rich environments? We take social enterprise legislation as a case in point. It establishes rules on behalf of constituencies that have no institutionalized means of enforcing them. By relying primarily on managers' other-regarding concerns...