How community-based social enterprises struggle with representation and accountability

Purpose<br/>Community-based social enterprises (CBSEs), a spatially defined subset of social enterprise, are independent, not-for-profit organisations managed by community members and committed to delivering long-term benefits to local people. CBSEs respond to austerity and policy reforms by providing services, jobs and other amenities for...

The Implications of Schumpeter’s Theories of Innovation for the Role, Organisation and Impact of Community-Based Social Enterprise in Three European Countries

Social enterprises, with strong ties to local areas and communities, have been a growing phenomenon in many European countries at least since the financial crisis of 2007-2008 and the resulting retrenchment of state involvement in welfare provision. The paper draws on the empirical findings from nine case studies of community-based social...