There are historical and institutional reasons behind our economic problems like poverty and environmental damage but it is not acceptable if they persist in years to come. The strategic use of information by individual economic agents establishes a biasing effect on our economy. In case of...

The community interest company (CIC) is designed for private actors seeking to engage in pro-social entrepreneurship and investment for public benefit. Although there are a handful of studies that focus on the CIC, knowledge gaps remain in the legal literature. The aim of this article is to fill...

This article explores the European Parliament’s July 2018 non-legislative resolution proposing to the European Commission a directive for facilitating social enterprise companies’ cross-border activities. The proposal is first situated within the context of the social economy and how the...

The recent surge of social enterprises has focused governments', academics' and practitioners' attention on alternate organisational structures and mechanisms that benefit the disadvantaged. However, very little economic theory has been applied to these new organisational forms to determine...

This article proposes to analyze Grameen Bank operational system and its own evolution, illustrating the values that support this economics theory and the innovations that microcredit brings to the understanding of economics and banking phenomena.

Is possible to think the credit access like a human right? Eventually, to practice an approach of this type, is it sostenibile from the entrepreneurial and social point of view? These are the two challenges that the microcredit is defying.

Social entrepreneurship offers innovative solutions to solve social challenges, but it tends to remain small and local. This paper aims at exploring the decision-making processes as an organisation navigates a scaling path, including the internal cracks and tensions in its structure. The enquiry...

Empowerment is one of the most important social value creation activities performed by social enterprises (SEs). Despite the burgeoning research on SEs, there is limited research on the meaning and aspects of empowerment from the SE perspective, or the so-called SE-as-Empowerment research. In...