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Meaningful difficulties in the mapping of social enterprises
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In this article, the authors highlight conceptual and technical difficulties in mapping social enterprise and social purpose business organizations, and highlight the need to consider the differences between social enterprises and other organizations.Abstract:
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight conceptual and technical difficulties in mapping “social enterprise” and “social purpose business” organizations.Design/methodology/approach – This paper reflects on the design and administration of a social enterprise population survey in Ontario, Canada.Findings – Numerous approaches used to frame social enterprise organizations were seriously flawed and fundamentally problematic, and criteria to distinguish social enterprise from other organizations were seemingly arbitrary, unstable, or unworkable.Originality/value – This paper both contributes to those attempting to empirically research social enterprise organizations, and to the broader discussion concerning whether social enterprise is usefully approached as a distinctive organizational form.read more
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