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Social Enterprise in Quebec: Understanding Their "Institutional Footprint"
Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research
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Social Enterprise in Quebec: Understanding Their "Institutional Footprint"
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Bouchard, Marie J.
Filho, Paulo Cruz Zerdani, Tassadit |
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Social enterprise; Social economy; Conceptual framework; Québec / Entreprise sociale; Économie sociale; Cadre conceptuel, Québec
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This article explores how the social enterprise concept is used in Québec. Focusing on the historical, institutional, and current conceptual understanding of the social economy in Québec, it explores the related definitions, terminology, and typologies currently in use. The term “social enterprise” is near absent in Québec, mainly due to the highly recognized notion of social economy. However, not all Québec enterprises that pursue social goals fit into the social economy institutional definition. This article proposes a conceptual framework for understanding the modalities of Québec’s field of social economy and other social purpose enterprises. It suggests that “social enterprises” in Québec are those that participate in the social purposes of the social economy without sharing the core and institutionalized characteristics of social economy enterprises.Cet article explore l’usage du terme « entreprise sociale » au Québec. Se basant sur des aspects historiques, institutionnels et conceptuels, l’article explore les définitions et les typologies qui ont cours aujourd’hui. L’expression « entreprise sociale » est rarement mentionnée, dû à la forte reconnaissance de l’économie sociale. Toutefois, il existe des entreprises au Québec qui, tout en poursuivant des objectifs sociaux, ne correspondent pas à la définition institutionnelle de l’économie sociale. La principale contribution de cet article est de proposer un cadre conceptuel pour comprendre le champ de l’économie sociale et des autres entreprises à finalité sociale. Il suggère que les « entreprises sociales » sont celles qui participent aux objectifs sociaux de l’économie sociale mais qui n’en ont pas les caractéristiques institutionnelles.
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CCSP Press, Simon Fraser University
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2015-06-27
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article |
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application/pdf
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http://www.anserj.ca/anser/index.php/cjnser/article/view/198
http://hdl.handle.net/10515/sy53t9dp5 10.22230/cjnser.2015v6n1a198 |
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Canadian journal of nonprofit and social economy research; Vol 6, No 1 (2015)
1920-9355 |
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eng
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http://www.anserj.ca/anser/index.php/cjnser/article/view/198/123
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