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Situating community enterprise: a theoretical exploration
Peter Somerville,Gerard McElwee +1 more
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In this article, the authors argue that enterprises can be understood primarily in terms of their social bases and that the social base of community enterprise lies in community of some kind, and argue that CBE is only one form of community enterprises.Abstract:
This paper argues that enterprises can be understood primarily in terms of their social bases and that the social base of community enterprise lies in community of some kind. It reviews current conceptualizations in this area such as ‘community-based enterprise’ (CBE) and ‘social enterprise’, and argues that CBE is only one form of community enterprise. Community entrepreneurs are understood in terms of their position on a continuum of community participation, as economic/social/political activists, and community enterprise is explained largely in terms of the balance of social capital functions served by its overall activity. The relationship between membership of a community enterprise and membership of a community is explored, and represented in terms of two criteria: the pool from which enterprise members are drawn and the rule by which such members are selected from the pool. This paper illustrates its arguments in relation to two English community enterprises, Coin Street Community Builders based in...read more
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Social Enterprises as Hybrid Organizations:A Review and Research Agenda*
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The role, organisation and contribution of community enterprise to urban regeneration policy in the UK
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TL;DR: The seeds approach as mentioned in this paper describes how niche experiments can, over time, coalesce to shift the dominant regime onto a more sustainable trajectory, and it can help us understand how transformations occur and how to nudge them towards more sustainable trajectories.
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