UID:
edocfu_9960819724602883
Format:
1 online resource (392 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-429-26576-X
,
0-429-55628-4
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Social Enterprise and Social Innovation
Content:
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.
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- List of Editors and Contributors -- Introduction: The Rising Interest for Social Enterprise in Asia -- Part I National Overviews of Social Enterprise -- 1 Social Enterprise in Cambodia: Typology and Institutionalisation -- 2 Social Enterprise in China: Key Features and New Trends -- 3 Social Entrepreneurship in India: Models and Application -- 4 Social Enterprise in Indonesia: Emerging Models Under Transition Government -- 5 Models of Social Enterprise in South Korea -- 6 Taiwanese Social Enterprises: A Context Marked by Strong Interactions Between the State and Civil Society -- 7 Social Enterprise Landscape in Thailand -- Part II Social Enterprise in Specific Fields -- Social Enterprise and Rural Community Development -- 8 The Emergence of Community-Oriented Rural Social Enterprises in Japan -- 9 Social Enterprise for Rural Community Development: Lessons From Two Case Studies in Indonesia and Taiwan -- Social Enterprise and Health and Social Services Provision -- 10 Social Enterprise Models Providing Health and Social Services in Japan -- 11 Social-Service-Provision Social Enterprises in Korea -- Social Enterprise and Social Inclusion -- 12 Social Enterprise in the Philippines: Social Enterprises With the Poor as Primary Stakeholders -- 13 Dependent Interdependence: Government/Non-Profit Relationship in Human Services in China -- Part III Comparative Analyses and Perspectives -- 14 Religious Influences on Social Enterprise in Asia: Observations in Cambodia, Malaysia and South Korea -- 15 Social Enterprises and Agricultural Value Chains in Southeast Asia -- 16 Asian Social Enterprise Models in a Worldwide Perspective -- Conclusion: Main Highlights About Social Enterprise in Asia -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-367-21159-9
Language:
English
