Is Social Enterprise Sustainable? -- Overview

Social enterprise is charity’s web 2.0—a would-be revolution as open to interpretation as a Rorschach blot. For social enterprise to be more than the latest passing fad in doing good, we need a rigorous re-thinking of what it means and why it matters.

To find out more, read the complete article, which is part of the special social enterprise issue of Emergence, Complexity & Organization.  

Or check out the individual sections linked in the table of contents below:

Introduction

I.  Defining social enterprise

A.  The one and the many problem
B.  Social enterprise as algorithm

II.  The social enterprise bubble

A.  Rhetorical turbulence
B.  Limit factors

III.  Social enterprise as transitional form

A.  The emergence of civil society
B.  The emergence of corporate identity
C.  The emergence of social enterprise

Conclusion