Social Enterprise in Western Europe : Theory, Models and Practice

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 linking c...

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Other Authors: Defourny, Jacques (Editor), Nyssens, Marthe (Editor)
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Published: Taylor & Francis 2021
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