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Re-imagining social enterprise

Re-imagining social enterprise PurposeThis intentionally polemical paper will re-examine what is meant by social enterprise and try to assert its role within the current economic system. It is well over a decade since John Pearce’s Social Enterprise in Anytown was first published. Since then the term ‘social enterprise’ has been used in multiple ways by politicians, practitioners and academics – very often for their own ideological ends. Design/methodology/approachThis paper will outline the context and challenges currently facing social enterprise both from outside and from inside the social enterprise movement. FindingsThis paper re-affirms a paradigm for social enterprises through re-imagining how social enterprise should and could contribute to the creation of a fairer and more just society. Originality/valueFinally, this paper will conclude with a reflection on what Pearce argued and how the social enterprise movement has to position itself as a viable alternative way of creating goods and services based on socially responsible values. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Social Enterprise Journal Emerald Publishing

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Emerald Publishing
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Copyright © Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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1750-8614
DOI
10.1108/SEJ-05-2016-0018
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PurposeThis intentionally polemical paper will re-examine what is meant by social enterprise and try to assert its role within the current economic system. It is well over a decade since John Pearce’s Social Enterprise in Anytown was first published. Since then the term ‘social enterprise’ has been used in multiple ways by politicians, practitioners and academics – very often for their own ideological ends. Design/methodology/approachThis paper will outline the context and challenges currently facing social enterprise both from outside and from inside the social enterprise movement. FindingsThis paper re-affirms a paradigm for social enterprises through re-imagining how social enterprise should and could contribute to the creation of a fairer and more just society. Originality/valueFinally, this paper will conclude with a reflection on what Pearce argued and how the social enterprise movement has to position itself as a viable alternative way of creating goods and services based on socially responsible values.

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Social Enterprise Journal – Emerald Publishing

Published: Aug 1, 2016

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