An Analysis of the Design of Legal Frameworks for Social Enterprises

In the last two decades, several innovative legal frameworks for social enterprises were developed across Europe. The differential success of these innovations raises certain questions. Is the intrinsic design of these legal frameworks optimal for social enterprises? Secondly, is the attractive capacity of these legal frameworks high enough to attract both new as existing social enterprises? And lastly, have these new legal frameworks reached full maturity? If this is not the case, these changes may well impede rather than encourage the development of social enterprises. In this paper we introduce an analytical framework to analyse the quality of the design of legal frameworks for social enterprises. Next, we apply it to some European countries where an innovative framework was introduced and where multiple legal frameworks for social entrepreneurship coexist.

ISBN:978-2-87463-228-0

Jaar van publicatie:2010