<title>Abstract</title> The concepts of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship are making amazing breakthroughs in EU countries and the United States. Until recently, the debates on both sides of the Atlantic have taken place in parallel trajectories with few connections among them. In the first part of...

This article develops a (partial equilibrium) microeconomic theory of popular-economy organizations (PEOs). Motivated by empirical data on PEOs in Santiago de Chile, we show that they are labor-managed firms (LMFs) embedded in dense social networks where cooperation between worker-members plays...

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...

In different countries ? among which some in Western Africa ? there have been for the last few years some organizations which are trying to combine health services insurances with microfinance. This working paper intends to question the way those services can be combined. It is based on four...

This paper presents an overview of the landscape of Work Integration Social Enterprise (WISE) in Belgium. These work integration social enterprises have as a major objective to help poorly qualified unemployed people, who are at risk of permanent exclusion from the labor market, back into work...

The aim of this contribution is to analyze the dynamic of social innovation of home-care services. Based on the works of Polanyi which analyse socio-economic dynamics and on feminist theories in the field of care, we develop an original grid of analysis developing criteria to grasp the processes...