Purpose – This paper aims to present the findings from a small study of social enterprise governance in the UK, taking a case study approach to uncover the experiences of internal actors who are involved in their board-level management. Design/methodology/approach – The study took a...

This paper presents the findings from a small study of social enterprise governance in the United Kingdom, taking a case study approach to uncover the experiences of internal actors who are involved in their board-level management. The study took a qualitative constructionist approach, focusing...

Research is needed to unlock the mysteries of ethical culture and investigate the ways in which it impacts on employees (Collier and Esteban, 2007). Our paper responds to this call. Its focus on codes of ethics recognizes the increasing importance of the topic (Svensson et al., 2006) – and the...

This paper aims to set out the current theoretical landscape of social enterprise governance. It considers the two theories of governance currently advocated in the social enterprise literature - stakeholder and stewardship theories. Furthermore, it asserts the utility of neoinstitutional theory...