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Social enterprise in Asia: theory, models and practice

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge studies in social enterprise & social innovationPublication details: Routledge 2019 New YorkDescription: xvii, 373 p. Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN:
  • 9780367675745
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.408095 S6
Summary: In the absence of a widely accepted and common definition of social enterprise (SE), a large research project, the "International Comparative Social Enterprise Models" (ICSEM) Project, was carried out over a five-year period; it involved more than 200 researchers from 55 countries and relied on bottom-up approaches to capture the SE phenomenon. This strategy made it possible to take into account and give legitimacy to locally embedded approaches, thus resulting in an analysis encompassing a wide diversity of social enterprises, while simultaneously allowing for the identification of major SE models to delineate the field on common grounds at the international level. These SE models reveal or confirm an overall trend towards new ways of sharing the responsibility for the common good in today’s economies and societies. We tend to consider as good news the fact that social enterprises actually stem from all parts of the economy. Indeed, societies are facing many complex challenges at all levels, from the local to the global level. The diversity and internal variety of SE models are a sign of a broadly shared willingness to develop appropriate—although sometimes embryonic—responses to these challenges, on the basis of innovative economic/business models driven by a social mission. In spite of their weaknesses, social enterprises may be seen as advocates for and vehicles of the general interest across the whole economy. Of course, the debate about privatisation, deregulation and globalised market competition—all factors that may hinder efforts in the search for the common good–has to be addressed as well. The first of a series of four ICSEM books, Social Enterprise in Asia will serve as a key reference and resource for teachers, researchers, students, experts, policy makers, journalists and other categories of people who want to acquire a broad understanding of the phenomena of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship as they emerge and develop across the world. https://www.routledge.com/Social-Enterprise-in-Asia-Theory-Models-and-Practice/Bidet-Defourny/p/book/9780367675745
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Table of contents

Introduction: The Rising Interest for Social Enterprise in Asia

Eric Bidet and Jacques Defourny

Part I: National Overviews of Social Enterprise

Chapter 1. Social Enterprise in Cambodia: Typology and Institutionalisation

Sothy Khieng and Isaac Lyne

Chapter 2. Social Enterprise in China: Key Features and New Trends

Xiaomin Yu

Chapter 3. Social Entrepreneurship in India: Models and Application

Anirudh Agrawal and Prajakta Khare

Chapter 4. Social Enterprise in Indonesia: Emerging Models under Transition Government

Aluisius Hery Pratono, Pauline Pramudija and Ari Sutanti

Chapter 5. Models of Social Enterprise in South Korea

Eric Bidet, Hyungsik Eum and Jieun Ryu

Chapter 6. Taiwanese Social Enterprises: A Context Marked by Strong Interactions between the State and Civil Society

Yu-Yuan Kuan and Shu-Twu Wang

Chapter 7. Social Enterprise Landscape in Thailand

Prapin Nuchpiam and Chanya Punyakumpol

Part II: Social Enterprise in Specific Fields

Social Enterprise and Rural Community Development

Chapter 8. The Emergence of Community-Oriented Rural Social Enterprises in Japan

Matsuyo Makino and Ken'ichi Kitajima

Chapter 9. Social Enterprise for Rural Community Development: Lessons from Two Case Studies in Taiwan and Indonesia

Aluisius Hery Pratono and Yu-Feng Wong

Social Enterprise and Health and Social Services Provision

Chapter 10. Social Enterprise Models Providing Health and Social Services in Japan

Akira Kurimoto

Chapter 11. Social-Service-Provision Social Enterprises in Korea

Deok Soon Hwang

Social Enterprise and Social Inclusion

Chapter 12. Social Enterprise in the Philippines: Social Enterprises with the Poor as Primary Stakeholders

Marie Lisa Dacanay

Chapter 13. Dependent Interdependence: Government/Non-Profit Relationship in Human Services in China

Yuanfeng Zhang and Huifeng Zhang

Part III: Comparative Analyses and Perspectives

Chapter 14. Religious Influences on Social Enterprise in Asia: Observations in Cambodia, Malaysia and South Korea

Isaac Lyne, Jieun Ryu, Yong Yuan Teh and Tetsuya Morita

Chapter 15. Social Enterprises and Agricultural Value Chains in South-East Asia

Marie Lisa Dacanay

Chapter 16. Asian Social Enterprise Models in a Worldwide Perspective

Jacques Defourny, Marthe Nyssens and Olivier Brolis

Conclusion: Main Highlights about Social Enterprise in Asia

Eric Bidet and Jacques Defourny

Index

In the absence of a widely accepted and common definition of social enterprise (SE), a large research project, the "International Comparative Social Enterprise Models" (ICSEM) Project, was carried out over a five-year period; it involved more than 200 researchers from 55 countries and relied on bottom-up approaches to capture the SE phenomenon. This strategy made it possible to take into account and give legitimacy to locally embedded approaches, thus resulting in an analysis encompassing a wide diversity of social enterprises, while simultaneously allowing for the identification of major SE models to delineate the field on common grounds at the international level.

These SE models reveal or confirm an overall trend towards new ways of sharing the responsibility for the common good in today’s economies and societies. We tend to consider as good news the fact that social enterprises actually stem from all parts of the economy. Indeed, societies are facing many complex challenges at all levels, from the local to the global level. The diversity and internal variety of SE models are a sign of a broadly shared willingness to develop appropriate—although sometimes embryonic—responses to these challenges, on the basis of innovative economic/business models driven by a social mission. In spite of their weaknesses, social enterprises may be seen as advocates for and vehicles of the general interest across the whole economy. Of course, the debate about privatisation, deregulation and globalised market competition—all factors that may hinder efforts in the search for the common good–has to be addressed as well.

The first of a series of four ICSEM books, Social Enterprise in Asia will serve as a key reference and resource for teachers, researchers, students, experts, policy makers, journalists and other categories of people who want to acquire a broad understanding of the phenomena of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship as they emerge and develop across the world.

https://www.routledge.com/Social-Enterprise-in-Asia-Theory-Models-and-Practice/Bidet-Defourny/p/book/9780367675745

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