Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue, which explores the concept and significance of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship internationally. Design/methodology/approach – This introductory article examines the literature that exists to date and...

Importance: The burden of neurological disorders in increasing, but access to care is limited. Providing specialty care to patients via telemedicine could help alleviate this growing problem. Objective: To evaluate the feasibility, effectiveness, and economic benefits of using web-based...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to offer new reflection upon the contested interaction of social enterprises with the public sector. It does this by fore fronting the notions of boundaries, boundary work and boundary objects. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reports qualitative...

Purpose – The paper seeks to explore the implications of a critical approach to theory and method in the study of social enterprises and social entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a re‐reading of the findings in a major case‐study based research programme....

Purpose – This paper seeks to examine the discourses that influence policy and practice in social enterprises. In institutional circles, arguments are shaped by the desire to protect assets for the community, while entrepreneurial discourses favour a mixture of investment sources, surplus...

Purpose – The central suggestion of this paper is that innovation in the concept of entrepreneurship is overdue and that the concept of entrepreneurship needs to be extended to accommodate its often neglected collective or pluralistic dimension, a concept termed “associative...