Third sector organisations, including social enterprises (SEs), are facing significant challenges. Primarily, this is because they are often engaged in contracting with the public sector and many are dependent on grant funding streams at risk of being cut during turbulent economic times. In the...

In recent times social enterprises have been afforded a high profile by the government in the UK, as a vehicle for enabling economic and social regeneration in communities. The developing trend to offer social enterprise organisations the opportunity to bid for public sector contracts raises 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...