Abstract One particular field of Social Enterprise – WISEs or Work Integration Social Enterprises – has become increasingly recognised as being emblematic of the dynamics of social enterprises and now constitutes a major sphere of their activity globally. From their early roots, focusing on...

Concernant plus de 100.000 travailleurs, près de 800.000 familles et plus de 2.000 entreprises, le dispositif titre-service est au coeur de l’agenda politique compte tenu de l’importance du budget public mobilisé qui s’élève à plus d’un milliard d’euros pour 2009. Ce numéro...

The emergence of social co-operatives cannot be understood without a more detailed analysis of the worldwide fast-growing interest toward social enterprise and social entrepreneurship since the mid-1990s. Much more than US-based schools of thought, a major European conception of social...

This paper is motivated by empirical observations on popular-economy firms (PEFs) in the informal sector of Santiago de Chile. These are labor-managed firms embedded in popular milieu where cooperation between their members plays a central role. This paper develops a (partial equilibrium)...

Compte tenu de l'intérêt croissant des économistes pour le champ de l'économie sociale (ou tiers-secteur), cet article a pour but d'analyser et de synthétiser les différents arguments auxquels a recours la littérature anglo-saxonne sur les organismes à but non lucratif pour expliquer...

The paper analyses how the work integration social enterprises (WISE) of the Walloon Region mix different types of resources and, in that way, how they are embedded in different economic spheres. Indeed, according to Polanyi, we can distinguish three types of resources, each one having its own...

This article analyses the profiles and trajectories of the workers who entered a work integration social enterprise (WISE). First, we describe the objective and subjective profile (level of employability evaluated by the managers of the social enterprises) of these workers at the time of their...