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Jacques Defourny
Researcher at University of Liège
Publications - 151
Citations - 7116
Jacques Defourny is an academic researcher from University of Liège. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social economy & Social entrepreneurship. The author has an hindex of 33, co-authored 149 publications receiving 6550 citations.
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Conceptions of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship in europe and the united states: convergences and divergences
Jacques Defourny,Marthe Nyssens +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the concepts of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship are making amazing breakthroughs in EU countries and the United States and the debates on both sides of the Atlantic have taken place in parallel trajectories with few connections among them.
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The Emergence of Social Enterprise
Carlo Borzaga,Jacques Defourny +1 more
TL;DR: From Third Sector to Social Enterprise Part 1: Social Enterprises in the Fifteen EU Countries 1. Austria: social enterprises and new childcare services 2. Belgium: social Enterprises in Community Services 3. Denmark: Co-operative Activity and Community Development 4. Finland: Labour Co-operatives as an Innovative Response to Unemployment 5. France: Social enterprises Developing 'Proximity Services' 6. Greece: Social entrepreneurs Responding to Welfare Needs 8. Ireland: social entrepreneurs and Local Development 9. Portugal: Cooperatives for Rehabilitation of People with Disabilities 12. Luxembourg:
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Social enterprise in Europe: recent trends and developments
Jacques Defourny,Marthe Nyssens +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors synthesize major evolutions experienced by social enterprises across Europe and the key challenges they are facing; and specific members of the EMES European Research Network provide a more in-depth update as to current trends and debates in their respective countries.
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Structural path analysis and multiplier decomposition within a social accounting matrix framework
Jacques Defourny,Erik Thorbecke +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, structural path analysis is applied to a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) framework and compared with the traditional treatment of Stone (1978) and Pyatt and Round (1979) in terms of transfer, open-loop and closed-loop effects.