Defining and Mapping Social Enterprises: Some Theoretical and Conceptual Perspectives for the Philippines (and Asia-Pacific)

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10.2991/icaspgs-icbap-17.2017.48How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Defining Social Enterprises, Mapping Social Enterprises, Philippines

Abstract

This paper reviews theoretical and conceptual perspectives – and academic debates – towards enabling an institutional framework for social enterprises (SEs) to develop and grow. It advances approaches in defining and mapping SEs as well as in potentially operationalizing the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework of Ostrom. It locates the discussion of SEs within the context of ‘re-conceptualizing’ the third sector/ social economy, and clarifies terminologies that are interchangeably used in academic and policy discourse – SE, social entrepreneurship and social innovation – leading to confusion among researchers and policy actors. It suggests some elements in defining SEs based on economic, social and governance dimensions (Defourny 2001, Defourny and Nyessens 2010) and a spectrum for mapping SEs building on the works of Alter (2007), Defourny and Kim (2011) and European Commission (2016). Finally, it concludes with policy implications in defining SEs and in enabling the policy and institutional framework for SEs at the country level. One important policy implication of this exercise relates to enabling ‘what a social enterprise can be’ rather than prohibiting or limiting its growth and development by prescribing a restrictive definition of “what a social enterprise is.’

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Jose TiuSonco II
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