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The trouble with not defining social enterprise via @theguardian

On January 7, 2012 By

Declan Jones has raised some important issues that arise around the lack of an agreed definition for ‘social enterprise’. The full article is worth a read.

This definitional problem has disturbed me for quite a while and we have yet to resolve the matter to any degree. Further, there is the question of social [...]

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What is a ‘social enterprise’?

On October 4, 2010 By

An interesting definition of social enterprise from the UK government:

“businesses with primarily social objectives whose surpluses are principally reinvested for that purpose in the business or in the community, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profit for shareholders and owners.”
Source: UK Social Enterprise Coalition

Also some interesting discussion [...]

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