As Public Goes Private, Social Emerges: The Rise of Social Enterprise

Hayllar, Mark Richard; Wettenhall, Roger

doi:10.1007/s11115-013-0234-y

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“…In the opinion of many specialists (Manfredi 2005;Vidal 2005;Mair and Martí 2006;Defourny and Nyssens 2006;Kerlin 2007;Chell 2007;Pirvu et al 2009), these organizations differ from capital-based companies due to the following characteristics (a) superiority of social goals compared to economic goals (obtaining and maximizing profit), (b) the combination of members' interests with the general interest, (c) assertion of the principles of solidarity and responsibility, (d) the financial surplus is used for the development of the organization or to provide services to members or general interest services. Due to the fact that they have shown they can be a solution to the social problems of the communities, SEs recorded, at the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century, a rapid and significant development (Hayllar and Wettenhall 2013). The representatives of the political, economic and social environment welcomed the emergence of a new model of organization in the nonprofit entity sector (Phillips and Hebb 2010).…”

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Social Enterprises and the EU’s Public Procurement Market

Pîrvu

Clipici

2015

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European social enterprises' participation in the public procurement process is low, even if the European public procurement law allows using special provisions for these entities. Encouraging the participation of social enterprises in the public procurement process is an important part of the effort to modernize the EU social policy. This paper demonstrates that, despite the great importance of social enterprises for the European economy, strategies on the access of social enterprises to the EU's public procurement market are less known by the employees of the public contracting authorities in EU Member States.Résumé La participation des entreprises sociales européennes dans la passation des marchés publics est faible, même si le droit des marchés publics européen permet le recours à des dispositions particulières prévues pour ces entités. Encourager la participation des entreprises sociales dans la passation des marchés publics s'inscrit dans un effort visant à moderniser la politique sociale de l'UE. Cet article démontre que, malgré l'importance des entreprises sociales pour l'économie européenne, les stratégies sur l'accès de ces entreprises aux marchés publics de l'UE sont moins connues par les employés des pouvoirs publics adjudicateurs des É tats membres.Zusammenfassung Die Teilnahme europäischer Sozialunternehmen an der öffentlichen Auftragsvergabe ist gering, obwohl das europäische Vergaberecht besondere Bestimmungen für diese Unternehmen zulässt. Die Förderung einer Beteiligung der Sozialunternehmen an der öffentlichen Auftragsvergabe spielt eine wichtige Rolle bei den Bemühungen zur Modernisierung der Sozialpolitik der EU. In diesem Beitrag wird gezeigt, dass trotz der großen Bedeutung der Sozialunternehmen für die europäische Wirtschaft die Strategien für den Zugang der Sozialunternehmen zur öffentlichen Auftragsvergabe auf dem EU-Markt den Mitarbeitern öffentlicher Auftraggeber in den EU-Mitgliedstaaten weniger bekannt sind.Resumen La participación de las empresas sociales europeas en el proceso de aprovisionamiento público es baja, aunque la ley de aprovisionamiento público europeo permite utilizar disposiciones especiales para estas entidades. Alentar la participación de las empresas sociales en el proceso de aprovisionamiento público es una parte importante del esfuerzo para modernizar la política social de la UE. El presente documento demuestra que, a pesar de la gran importancia de las empresas sociales para la economía europea, las estrategias sobre el acceso de las empresas sociales al mercado de aprovisionamiento público de la UE son menos conocidas por los empleados de las autoridades de contratación pública en los Estados Miembros de la UE.

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Social Enterprises and the EU’s Public Procurement Market

Pîrvu

Clipici

2015

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“…This finding echoes several observations made by researchers within the nonprofit organizations literature (Benjamin, 2007;Botcheva et al, 2002;Carman, 2009), but is of particular note because of the assumptions underpinning the social entrepreneurship and social enterprise literature. It has been asserted by many scholars that the rise of social enterprise has been in reaction to a reduction of funding coming from traditional sources, including government grants and private foundations (Hayllar & Wettenhall, 2013;Lyons & Kickul, 2013). These cases indicate that formalized performance measurement systems may become less common as more non-profits diversify their revenue streams through social enterprise and become less reliant on traditional funders.…”

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Positioning the Beneficiary: The Role of Entwinement in Social Enterprise Impact

Kennedy¹

2015

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“…Social enterprises are hybrid organizations that use public and private resources and commercial operations to address social and environmental issues (Santos, Pache, and Birkholz 2015). Social enterprises play an increasingly important role in contemporary public and nonprofit administration (Kerlin, 2009;Hayllar and Wettenhall, 2013;Salamon, 2015;Tekula and Andersen, 2019). As such, Choi, Berry and Ghadimi (2020) recently invited "public administration and policy scholars … to accumulate both theoretical and practical knowledge on how governments shape social enterprises" (502).…”

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Crowding-in or Crowding-out? How Subsidies Signal the Path to Financial Independence of Social Enterprises

Reichert

Hudon

Szafarz

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Perspectives on Public Management and Governance

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In today’s multisector configurations, there is little clarity about whether and how public and private subsidies influence social enterprises’ pursuit of financial stability. We address the strategic role of donors in the social-business life cycle whereby social enterprise start-ups rely on subsidies, while mature social enterprises strive for independence from donors. To address the “missing middle,” we develop a typology of subsidy instruments and an intermediary signaling model to clarify how subsidies shape the evolution of outcomes for social enterprises. We argue that source variation matters for certain instruments like corporate intangibles and governmentally subsidized credit guarantees, which trigger crowding-in effects and attract commercial partners, while preventing perverse crowding-out effects, such as soft budget constraints. To illustrate this commercialization story, we draw upon a microfinance case study, demonstrating how public and private donors can induce crowding-in and crowding-out effects. In short, our subsidy typology helps unpack the signals that public and private subsidies send to commercial funders of social enterprises and how they shape the path to future financial independence.

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As Public Goes Private, Social Emerges: The Rise of Social Enterprise

Cited by 20 publications

References 6 publications

Social Enterprises and the EU’s Public Procurement Market

Social Enterprises and the EU’s Public Procurement Market

Positioning the Beneficiary: The Role of Entwinement in Social Enterprise Impact

Crowding-in or Crowding-out? How Subsidies Signal the Path to Financial Independence of Social Enterprises

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