"In the last two decades, the quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise has been a central issue in a great number of publications. The main objective of the ICSEM Project on which this book is based was to show that the social enterprise field would benefit much more from...

La 4ème de couverture indique : "Économie sociale, économie solidaire, entreprise sociale : autant de concepts et d'approches qui permettent d'appréhender une partie de plus en plus importante et pourtant méconnue, de nos économies. Représentant jusqu'à 15% de l'emploi salarié et des...

"In the last two decades, the quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise has been a central issue in a great number of publications. The main objective of the ICSEM Project (on which this book is based) was to show that the social enterprise field would benefit much more from...

<title>Abstract</title> The concepts of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship are making amazing breakthroughs in EU countries and the United States. Until recently, the debates on both sides of the Atlantic have taken place in parallel trajectories with few connections among them. In the first part of...

Concernant plus de 100.000 travailleurs, près de 800.000 familles et plus de 2.000 entreprises, le dispositif titre-service est au coeur de l’agenda politique compte tenu de l’importance du budget public mobilisé qui s’élève à plus d’un milliard d’euros pour 2009. Ce numéro...

In 2001, the Belgian government introduced a 'service voucher' scheme in the field of domestic (housework) services, following a quasi-market mechanism which fosters competition between providers of different types as regards sector (for-profit, public, third sector) and mission (seeking...