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EMES ACTIVITY REPORT 2013

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EMES ACTIVITY REPORT

Building knowledge together

EMES ACTIVITY REPORT 2013

EMES ACTIVITY REPORT

Building knowledge together

EMES ACTIVITY REPORT 2013

Table of contents 06

Introduction

Events Events organised by EMES Other events

Research initiatives EMES research projects

Communication and dissemination Rebranding EMES EMES on the Internet News page and News Alerts

Publications EMES Publications

Functioning and governance of EMES Governing bodies Membership Coordination Unit Financial situation overview

Training and education Training of PhD students Academic programs

Partnerships and alliances

Appendices EMES Fact Sheet 2013 ICSEM description WILCO final brochure 4th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise event report

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In the year 2013 EMES has witnessed profound internal changes stemming from the strategic decision of opening up to other areas of the world both geographically and disciplinarily. After celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2012, EMES faces the upcoming years with a sense of responsibility and great enthusiasm, both emanating from the realization of the unique added value it contributes to social sciences and to the community of researchers working on social enterprise and related issues. On the research front, EMES continues to lead and

EMES was also very active in its other areas of activity,

participate in truly ambitious projects covering some of

namely communication and the dissemination of the

key research focus areas such as social enterprise (ICSEM

abovementioned research and events. Starting this year,

project), the third sector (TSI project) and social innovation

though, EMES will change the way it refers to dissemination

(WILCO and REScoop 2020 projects). In addition, EMES

and start using the term engagement as it seems more

prepares international research projects gathering a number

appropriate to the kind of initiatives we carry out aimed

of key partners with the aim of continuing key collaborations

mostly at the scientific community but also at policy-makers

across the world. The result of many of these collaborations

and practitioners. Such engagement took the form of an

may take the form of collective works or individual

active social media presence (mainly via the EMES Facebook

publications in various formats and even languages. In 2013,

page and the Twitter account), the publication of six EMES

this publication effort focused on making available 71 new

News Alerts and over 50 news pieces on the website, and the

EMES Conferences Selected Papers plus adding three new

updating of the EMES Fact Sheet and the website regularly.

EMES Working Papers to the series and seven entries to the EMES Junior Experts’ Blog (EJEB). In addition, EMES organized the fourth edition of its flagship event, the EMES International Research Conference

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on Social Enterprise. It was to date the best-attended conference and responses from participants reflect a high level of satisfaction. There were other events organized by EMES members around the world featuring the global booming of interest in social enterprise and the relevance of EMES research.

Lars Hulgård

Rocío Nogales

President

Managing Director

RESEARCH INITIATIVES INTRODUCTION

The major areas of activity of EMES All these activities – and more – are presented in this report. The format and structure have changed with regard to previous annual activity reports, Indeed, in parallel to the new visual identity launched in 2013, this report is divided into five main sections: 1) Research initiatives; 2) Publications; 3) Training and education, 4) Events; 5) Communication and engagement; 6) Governance and functioning of EMES; and 7) Conclusions. The report includes more images and links to further information and we hope to progressively go digital. Our aim is to be able to publish an annual timeline and a visual summary of our activities so they can be easily caught “at a glance” while leaving the option of going deeper for those interested in doing so.

Research ICSEM project WILCO project REScoop 2020 project TSO project (official start 2014)

Governance

Publications

Global membership Implementation of strategic planning Funding model revision

EMES Selected Conference Papers EMES Working Papers SEJ special issue

Partnerships

Events

RILESS Other FP7 projects South East Asian partners UNRISD

4th EMES International Research Conference Participation in conferences and seminars

Policy

Training and education

Presence in EU & national committees Expert group on social entrepreneurship (GECES)

FETSE EJEB EU Master program (in preparation)

Communication Rebranding Launch of new web site News Alerts Social networks

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Research initiatives EMES benefits from the accumulated experience, expertise and reputation of all its members who are among the leading research centres and individual researchers in the field of the third sector and social enterprise. Since its inception in 1996, EMES has completed over 15 major research projects. In 2013, EMES participated as a network in the three research projects described below while members were also active in their own research initiatives.

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EMES research projects

The ICSEM project Preparation of the ICSEM project began as soon as it was known that the SOCENT Programme had been selected as an Interuniversity Attraction Pole in March 2012. Jacques Defourny and Marthe Nyssens, the project’s initiators—and future “Scientific Coordinators” of the latter—wrote the draft of an international comparative research project on social enterprise models, and they started circulating and presenting it in a few meetings and conferences, especially during Full name:

the summer 2012. It immediately appeared that the project seemed to meet

International Comparative Social

expectations widely shared among the community of researchers working on SE-

Enterprise Models Project

related themes: the interest raised was immediate and intense.

Scientific Coordinators:

The year prior to this report, a more complete and detailed research project was

Jacques Defourny (ULg-Belgium) and

written. The resulting document (which is available for download here: http://goo.

Marthe Nyssens (UCL-Belgium), EMES

gl/JxGxWK), was broadcast together with the invitation to the EMES-SOCENT

Belgian institutional members and

Conference, in particular among research communities in and around the EMES

members of the Board of Directors

Network. A project kick-off meeting, to be held immediately after the 4th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise (University of Liege, July

Participating EMES members:

1-4, 2013), was also announced.

+50 and EMES Coordination Unit Between February and June 2013, the project’s scientific coordinators, Jacques www.emes.net

Defourny and Marthe Nyssens, and SOCENT’s Coordination Assistant, Sophie Adam, answered numerous requests for more detailed information about the project—the conditions under which the potential partners could become involved; the project’s timing; the possibilities or necessities for collaboration among researchers/teams within a same country; the main fields of activity to be covered; the possibility to develop comparative researches at the regional level (Asia, Latin America…), etc. This “personalized” diffusion process, involving

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hundreds of interactions with potential partners, was highly time-consuming, but it undoubtedly played a major role in the fact that, even before the conference, some 130 researchers had already expressed their interest in the project. ICSEM took an impressive official start in July 2013: the kick-off meeting, which took place on July 5th in Liege, brought together close to 100 researchers from 40 countries and all regions of the world while some 35 other researchers were not able to attend but wanted to be kept informed. The morning of July 5 was dedicated to a four-hour working session, during which all aspects of the project were presented in detail, and questions, comments and suggestions of potential participants were addressed. During the afternoon, Jacques Defourny and Marthe Nyssens had 20-minute meetings with individual researchers or groups of researchers from a same country. After this kick-off meeting, potential partners were requested to officially confirm their willingness to take part in the project as “Founding Partners” and their commitment to make a contribution to the project. Some original elements of the project, such as they were explained to the potential participants before they officially committed themselves as Founding Partners, are worth underlining: 1. Participation is widely open, including for relatively important groups of researchers of a same country, be it with explicit coordination among them or with a less coordinated distribution of tasks, and even with diverging visions on national realities. 2. Each researcher or team is responsible for finding the financial means necessary to cover the research on SE models in his/her/its country. The Project’s Coordination simply commits itself (a) to try to find the necessary

Over 100 researchers participated in the ICSEM meeting in Liege (Belgium), July 5th, 2013.

135

researchers joined the project in 2013

funding to cover accommodation costs for an annual meeting of the Project; (b)

researchers discussed “face-to-face”

to write support letters to back the research teams in their search for funding.

their contribution to the Project

3. In terms of outputs, in a first stage of the research, two main productions are foreseen: (a) a first wave of Working Papers, describing all or some of the SE models in each country, will be written; and (b) on the basis of a common questionnaire, promised for November 2013, an empirical survey will be carried out among social enterprises which are emblematic of each SE model. This international survey will allow building a unique database on social enterprises representing the diversity of SE models across the world. National data will remain the property of the researchers who will have collected them and they might be exploited at a national level with reference to the ICSEM Project; but once aggregated in the database, they will become the collective property of the Founding Partners, to be exploited under the direction of the coordinators within a participative process of management.

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4. Given the number of participants and the will to reduce transportation costs, the pooling and discussion of the first WPs will be organized in two places: an “Eastern” ICSEM Symposium will be organised in Seoul (South Korea) in cooperation with East-Asian colleagues in July 2014, and a “Western” ICSEM Symposium will take place in Belgium in October 2014.

After the kick-off meeting, news about the ICSEM Project went on spreading by word of mouth, and the coordinators still received many declarations of interests, so that by early December 2013, when the official list of Founding Partners was established, it appeared that the response from the SE research community had once again gone beyond all expectations: some 180 researchers, from close to 50 countries, had confirmed their participation. The list of the ICSEM Project’s Founding Partners can be found on the SOCENT website here: http://www.iapsocent.be/partners It should be noted, however, that actual contributions to the ICSEM Project will depend in many cases on the availability of resources. Indeed, many researchers 4th EMES Research Conference participants.

have or will apply for funding in order to carry out their research part in the ICSEM Project. So it could take one more year to know exactly how many countries will be actually covered and how many researchers will contribute to the Project. Various documents linked to the Project are available for download on the project’s webpage (www.iap-socent.be/icsem-project): kk “ICSEM full presentation NEW”: the detailed description of the ICSEM

Project; kk “20131205 Proposed workplan”: the proposed work plan for the first ICSEM

working paper and practical information about the Project; kk “ICSEM map”: a map showing the countries currently covered by the Project.

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The WILCO project During the recent years of economic crisis, European cities have seen a huge growth in distress and inequality. At the urban level, these great challenges become visible and tangible, which in many senses makes cities a microcosm of society. It means that local welfare systems are at the forefront of the struggle to address this challenge – and they are far from winning. While the statistics show some positive signs, the overall picture still shows sharp and sometimes rising inequalities, a loss of social cohesion and failing policies of integration. When we focus on specific groups in society (e.g. migrants) the situation is even direr. It is clear that new ideas and approaches to tackle these problems are needed. Such innovation has accordingly been high on the policy agenda. Indeed, ‘social innovation’ has become a buzzword in policy circles and features prominently on the agenda of the European Union. Yet there is still little solid evidence on how social innovation works. The project ‘Welfare Innovations at the Local Level in Favour of Cohesion” (WILCO, 2010-2014) was funded by the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme to address this gap in our knowledge. WILCO had the following goals: kk To identify innovative practices in European cities and the factors that make

Full name: Welfare Innovations at the Local Level for Social Cohesion Coordinator: Taco Brandsen, Dutch member and member of the Board of Directors Participating EMES members: CRIDA (France), Adalbert Evers and the EMES Coordination Unit www.wilcoproject.eu

them emerge and spread. kk To set them against the context of current social problems and urban policies. kk To make recommendations how to encourage local social innovation.

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For this purpose, the project brought together universities from ten countries

WELFARE INNOVATIONS AT THE LOCAL LEVEL IN FAVOUR OF S OCIAL COHES ION

ion:

(Croatia, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK), as well as the research networks EMES and NISPACEE. The project was coordinated by Radboud University Nijmegen. We selected twenty European cities (two per country) on which we focused our research. The chosen cities were: Münster and Berlin Friedrichshain – Kreuzberg (DE); Zagreb and Varaždin (HR); Amsterdam and Nijmegen (NL); Barcelona and Pamplona (ES); Milan and Brescia (IT); Stockholm and Malmø (SE); Birmingham and Medway area (UK);

WILCO December 2010 - December 2013

Warsaw and Plock (PL); Lille and Nantes (FR); Bern and Genève (CH).

Coordinator: Prof. Taco Brandsen, Radboud University Nijmegen

ike to get involved.

Understanding innovations in local welfare to strengthen social cohesion and lower social inequalities.

ct.eu Welfare innovations at the local level in favour of cohesion

The WILCO project witnessed the emergence of several types of innovations, including innovations in services and their ways to address users, innovations in WILCO aims to examine, through cross-national comparative research, how local welfare systems affect social inequalities and how they favour social cohesionwith a special focus on the missing link between innovations at the local level and their successful transfer and implementation to other settings.

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regulations and governance, and more generally innovations in the nature of the local welfare system. The aim was to identify innovative practices in European cities and the factors that make them emerge and spread by setting them against the context of current social problems and urban policies in 20 cities across Europe. The closing event of the project is scheduled for January 31st, 2014 so the report on it and the last pieces of dissemination will be included in the 2014 report.

THE WILCO PROJECT

UNDERSTANDING INNOVATIONS IN LOCAL WELFARE TO STRENGTHEN SOCIAL COHESION AND LOWER SOCIAL INEQUALITIES

Two project brochures were created during the project: the first brochure produced at the beginning of the project focused on the objectives of the project while the final brochure (to be formally launched in January 2014) summarizing the outputs of the project and the main findings in a succinct manner. Both will be available in printed and digital versions although the electronic format will be prioritized for the last one.

1,581

people signed up for the WILCO

news alert distribution list

Dissemination campaigns A total of 1,581 people signed up for the WILCO news alert distribution list, which represents about 94,86 people potentially hit by each of the campaigns. A total of six WILCO Up! news alerts were launched by December 2013:

WILCO Up! news

6 14

16/10/2013

WILCO Up! Oct 2013

12/17/2012

WILCO Up! #4 - News from the WILCO project

07/13/2012

WILCO Up! #3 - News from the WILCO project

04/30/2012

WILCO Up! #2 News Alert

02/21/2012

WILCO Up! #1 News Alert

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Social vulnerability in European cities

Social Innovations across Europe

Governance of innovation across European cities

A documentary divided in three individual video pieces was produced and published during the closing event of the Project on January 31st, 2014. The titles of each part are: “Social vulnerability in European cities”, “Social Innovations across Europe” and “Governance of innovation across European cities”. In addition, WILCO produced a video series aimed at capturing in a succinct way various aspects of the WILCO project, including its potential impact, the people involved in the project, or how to get involved in its activities. A total of nine videos were produced summarized below:

WILCO video series #1

 Interview with Heiko Prange-Gstöehl, project officer of WILCO

 Solving housing challenges for artists through social innovation: The Bookstore project

 Thoughts on the Relevance of Social Innovation for Europe

 What is the added value of WILCO?

 What are the main challenges facing the transferring on social innovation?

 Approaches to research on Social Innovation I

 Approaches to research on Social Innovation II

 Disseminating research results: WILCO and the EMES network

 Community mothers - social innovation in Berlin (connected to the Bertelsmann Summer School, see below)

www.wilcoproject.eu January 01- December 31, 2013

5,351

EMES was in charge of creating a full-fledged website for the project. After the

18,201

initial launch of the site, it was regularly updated with events, documents and news. In addition to the main sections, two direct buttons for visitors to use were created: a feedback form and a mailing list subscription button.

Visits

Pages viewed

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The REScoop 20-20-20 project All the tasks where EMES participates within this project (research on REScoop business models and the creation of a Toolbox; and dissemination and communication) have been successfully completed in 2013. The Interim Report covering the first half of the project (18 months) was submitted in October 2013. In addition to a number of meetings (five consortium meeting organized in Full name: REScoop 20-20-20: Foster social acceptance of RES by stakeholder engagement Coordinator: Dirk Vansintjan (Ecopower, Belgium) Participating EMES members: Centre for Social Economy (Belgium), EMES Coordination Unit www.rescoop.eu

Antwerp, Brussels, Manchester, Amsterdam and Brussels) an inventory with basic information of about 400 REScoops has been created. EMES has been particularly involved in the development of a Toolbox on â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;How to develop a REScoopâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and the production of a report on the existing business models in different member states. Many other tools have been developed in the framework of this project, namely an European Charter of Citizen Investing in RES-projects; a report on financial barriers and existing solutions for REScoops in Europe; a Handbook on citizens RES investment schemes. In addition, 30 best practices were analyzed and the report published with the results and several National Workshops were organized on the topic. The project website and all communication material, whose creation was supervised by EMES, were professionally designed and edited. Language represents a major hurdle for most local REScoops, so a major effort was done to make the website multilingual. Although the information in terms of registered

There were a total of 73,676 visits since the launch of the REScoop.eu website until October 20th, 2013. 16

REScoops in the inventory is coming in slowly, making the site multilingual will encourage non-English speaking European citizens to get involved in the project. A total of 23 publications from over 10 European countries were launched through the web site; 15 articles published in local newspapers; four radio interviews aired and four mentions in local TV broadcasts.

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As a way of supporting the work done in relation to the

A new kind of promising event was organized and added

national workshops organized so far, several press releases

to the array of activities that REScoop20-20-20 organizes,

were launched (Amsterdam: English and Dutch; Bolzano:

namely the “Research meets practice” workshops. So far,

English and Italian; Girona: Spanish and Catalonian) and

the first one of these events took place in the course of the

published on the web site. In addition, all the available

4th EMES international research conference in July 1st, 2013

material related to these groundbreaking events has been

(see below).

published on the website (PPT presentations as PDF files), summaries, “Mentors’ Who is Who” document, etc. Lastly,

Lastly, an internal documentary committee was put together

graphic pieces such as pictures and videos were produced

to discuss the elements that should be included in this

for these events. The former are saved on an internal access

crucial communication piece. After a total of 24 small video

folder for later uses while the videos from the Bolzano

pieces were created (see the REScoop YouTube channel

meeting are available on the REScoop YouTube channel.

at www.youtube.com/rescoopvideos) and realizing that motivation is a crucial aspect for a provider to complete the

In addition to the Facebook page, which continues to attract

assignment, it was decided that the video production firm

significant interest, a Twitter account has been created to

L’Indien Productions would deliver the final piece. Alain de

diffuse the latest news on REScoop20-20-20 and relevant

Halleux, founder of the firm, is a well-known documentary

information on REScoops and/or renewable energy. As

producer, writer and director, especially for his work on

of September 30 , 2013, REScoop has 601 followers on

nuclear power and Fukushima. The results were a long and

Twitter and a total of 1881 tweets have been published.

a short version of a documentary featuring the contribution

Regarding the website, the huge communication effort

of the REScoop 20-20-20 consortium to the energy

done in terms of community engagement, promotion and

transition. Various prospects for doing a formal launch are

outreach have given their results.

currently being explored.

Dissemination campaigns Lastly, EMES also edits and overviews the translation of the “RES-scoop”, which is the news alert of the REScoop 20-20-20 project. This news alert is

News Alert

regularly sent to over 400 people interested in citizen-led renewable energy

sources (RES) cooperatives. In 2013, the following RES-scoops were sent in the languages included below:

January 2013

RES-scoop #5 English - French - Italian - Dutch - Esperanto - Spanish

February 2013

RES-scoop #6 English - French - Italian - Dutch - Spanish

April 2013 June 2013

interested in citizen-led renewable energy sources (RES)

English - French - Italian - Dutch - Esperanto - Spanish

cooperatives

RES-scoop #8 RES-scoop #9 English - French - Italian - Dutch - Spanish

December 2013

400

RES-scoop #7

English - French - Italian - Dutch - Esperanto - Spanish September 2013

over

RES-scoop #10 English - French - Italian - Dutch - Esperanto - Spanish

6 Languages English - French - Italian - Dutch Spanish - Esperanto

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Picture source: Handbook

Methodological support and peer reviews to the mapping study of social enterprises and their ecosystem in Europe Against the background of supporting a fruitful dialogue among diverse approaches and disciplines, four scholars with diverse research backgrounds and the Managing Director of EMES agreed to submit a joint proposal to the call for tenders “Analysis and provision of methodological support and peer reviews to the mapping study of social enterprises and their ecosystem in Europe” launched by the Euro-

Full name: Methodological support and peer reviews to the mapping study of social enterprises and their ecosystem in Europe.

pean Commission (DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities). The proposal was accepted and a Quality Check Team (QCT) for the project constituted (Niels Bosma and Marieke Huysentruyt also joined). Led by Carlo Borzaga (Euricse) the QCT incorporates the three main social enterprise approaches or methodologies for social enterprise research that can be identified at the EU level: the EMES,

Participating EMES members: Carlo Borzaga and Giulia Galera (Euricse) and Rocío Nogales (EMES Coordination Unit)

the GEM, and the SELUSI one. One of the aims of the project was to attempt to integrate these three perspectives in order to develop a shared and flexible definition of social enterprise that offers a robust basis for the large mapping effort to be done in the mapping study. Indeed, an integrated and multidisciplinary approach is all the more necessary in order to develop an analytical framework that can be applied to different European countries, which are characterized by various welfare models, legal systems, and development patterns of the so-called Third Sector. Each of the three scientific perspective brought in by the QCT has the merit of shedding light on specific issues, including: the key features of social enterprises (the EMES approach), the market and organization-level behaviours of social enterprises in Europe (the SELUSI approach), and the social entrepreneur as individual actor (the GEM approach).

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At the national level, individual researchers and institutes were appointed by the subcontractor in charge of the overall project ICF GHK (GHK Consulting LTd), such as scientific coordinator (Roger Spear, UK) and national expert (AICCON, Italy).

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Publications Given the number of projects currently under way and the extended breadth of the EMES membership, 2013 saw an important increase in the number of documents published and in preparation.

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By Markus Spiske. flickr.com

EMES Publications Books The main editorial effort at EMES in 2013 revolved around the preparation of a volume entitled Social Enterprise and the Third Sector – Changing European Landscapes. The editors are Jacques Defourny, Lars Hulgård and Victor Pestoff and the publishing house is Routledge. The expected date of publication is late spring 2014, right on time for the 4th EMES PhD Summer School. The volume is divided in two main sections and the table of contents is included below:

EMES ISBN

978-2-930773

SECTION 1 - THE DYNAMICS OF

SECTION 2 - SOCIAL ENTERPRISE,

SOCIAL ENTERPRISE AND SOCIAL

GOVERNANCE AND POLICY ISSUES

ENTREPRENEURSHIP: THEORETICAL 7.

Major perspectives on governance of social enterprise. Mike Aiken, Chris Cornforth, and Roger Spear

The EMES Approach of social enterprise in a comparative perspective. Jacques Defourny and Marthe Nyssens

Explaining stakeholder involvement in social enterprise governance through resources and legitimacy. Benjamin Huybrechts, Sybille Mertens, and Julie Rijpens

Social enterprise and the Third Sector – Innovative service delivery or a noncapitalist economy? Lars Hulgård

Multi-stakeholder governance in social enterprise. Isabel Vidal

10. The associative as governance structure. Bernard Enjolras

FOUNDATIONS

As of October 2013, EMES counts with its own ISBN identification number, allowing it to launch its own publications.

The first one will be the WILCO e-book on social innovations across Europe (expected date: January 2014).

From Third Sector to Social Enterprise: A European Research Trajectory. Jacques Defourny

Organizational variety in market economies and the emergent role of socially oriented enterprises. Carlo Borzaga, Sara Depedri and Ermanno Tortia

The social and solidarity economy a theoretical and plural framework. Jean-Louis Laville

Solidarity-based Initiatives: Field realities and analysis. Laurent Gardin

11. European Work integration social enterprises: between social innovation and isomorphism. Marthe Nyssens 12. Co-production and the Third Sector: the state of the art in research. Taco Brandsen, Victor Pestoff, and Bram Verschuere 13. Hybridity, Innovation and the Third Sector: the co-production of public services. Victor Pestoff

PUBLICATIONS

EMES Working Papers series As it has been the case in previous years, the major effort done for the 4th EMES conference resulted in a higher number of EMES Conferences Selected Papers and a very limited number of Working Papers published this year. Only two WPs were published although they are really two language versions of a previously published one.

EMES Working Paper num. 13.01 Authored by Jacques Defourny and Marthe Nyssens, it is the Spanish version of the working paper published in 2012 (WP 12.03) entitled “The EMES Approach of Social Enterprise in a Comparative Perspective”. The title is Spanish is “El enfoque EMES de empresa social desde una perspectiva compared”.

EMES Working Paper num. 13.02 This paper is the French translation of the EMES Working Paper number 13.01.

EMES Conferences Selected Papers series After the 2nd EMES-ISTR European conference, organized in July 2008 in Barcelona, EMES launched the EMES Conferences Selected Papers series, which now includes papers from all EMES International Conferences on Social Enterprise,

selected conference papers

as well as from other international seminars. This series aims to ensure that selected papers from conferences (co-)organised by EMES will be accessible to a large international audience of researchers, scholars, practitioners, policy makers, students and any other person whose work is related, in one way or another, to the third sector. Following the 4th EMES Conference in Liege (Belgium), the EMES Network and the SOCENT Programme made 71 selected conference papers available on their websites. The opportunity for being included in this series was offered to authors presenting an advanced enough paper during the event. The deadline for submission was September 30th so the first selection of the papers was launched in mid-October 2013. Although submitted papers were not be reviewed as for a publication process, the Conference Academic Committee checked that they meet some minimum requirements to be included in this series. Papers included in the EMES-SOCENT Selected Conference Papers series are numbered according to the order of reception and are available to download free of charge: they were downloaded over 2,000 times in 2013.

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A list of these papers in alphabetical order is included below: All the papers are available to download at the EMES Selected Conference Papers page.

Alguacil, P.

Current problems on the Spanish taxation of social co-operatives: A European perspective

LG13-64

Alix, N.

Management, “sensemaking” et économie sociale et solidaire

LG13-31

Bauwens, T.

New institutional economic theories of non-profits and cooperatives: a critique from an evolutionary perspective

LG13-41

Bidet, E. & Eum, H.

Entreprise sociale et protection sociale: le cas des coopératives médicales en Corée du Sud

LG13-12

Billis, D.

The Symbiotic Relationship between Social Enterprise and Hybridity

LG13-30

Caballero, S., Fuchs, R.M. & The influence of personality traits on social enterprise start-up: the case of Peruvian LG13-07 Prialé, M. A. social entrepreneurs ENG

Caballero, S., Fuchs, R.M. & La influencia de los rasgos de la personalidad en la creación de una empresa social: Prialé, M. A. El caso de los emprendedores sociales peruanos

Carini, C. & Costa, E.

Exploring the performance of social cooperatives during the economic crisis: The Italian case

LG13-62

Cherfem, C.

Réflexions autour de la construction théorique de l’Économie Sociale et Solidaire: entre l’émancipation et la critique

LG13-24

Cherfem, C.

Qualification et Formation par le travail dans les Entreprises Solidaires

LG13-32

Conde Bonfil, C.

Reform to the Law of Social and Solidarity Economy of Mexico

LG13-47 ENG

Conde Bonfil, C.

Reforma a la Ley de la Economía Social y Solidaria de México

LG13-47 ESP

Costa, D. & Parente, C.

External communication practices and organizational legitimacy: a perspective from LG13-51 the Portuguese third sector

Curtis, A.

Social Enterprise and the effect of Isomorphism: The blurring boundaries between the not for profit and for profit market (Carebright Case Study)

LG13-66

Dacanay, M.

Social Enterprises with the Poor as Primary Stakeholders: Responding to State and Market Failures in the South

LG13-67

Dafuleya, G.

Social Entrepreneurship Development in Collective-Based Initiatives: A Qualitative study of African Burial Societies

LG13-53

Dagevos, M. & Hense, E.

The social entrepreneurial process: discerning hybrid arrangements - Qualitative research among social entrepreneurs in The Netherlands

LG13-29

De Bruin, A. & Stangl, L. M. The Social Innovation Continuum: Towards Addressing Definitional Ambiguity

LG13-68

Dubois, V. & Cornet, A.

La perception de la pénibilité au travail dans les métiers du social

LG13-14

Elson, P. & Hall, P.

Plowing the Fields: Provincial surveys of social enterprises in Canada

LG13-08

Ferrer, V. & Cabrera, O.

Social Entrepreneurship Competencies of the Students at University of Barcelona

LG13-06

Fujii, A.

Social Inclusion in Japanese Workers’ collectives―Actual Situations and Conditions

LG13-04

Germak, A.

Social Entrepreneurship Motivation: A Quantitative Analysis of Nascent Social Entrepreneurs

LG13-69

Geurtsen, A. & Verstraeten, A.

Towards tailor made stakeholder interaction for social enterprises

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Gilormini, P.

Solidarity revival at French Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne Group

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Gluns, D. & Zimmer, A.

“Parole, parole, parole” – discourses and innovative social entrepreneurship

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Goishi, N. & Mizuno, Y.

Conditional Convergence of Social Enterprises in Japan and Korea

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Gonin, M., Zuchuat, J.-Ch., Gachet, N. & Houmard, L.

Toward a Statistically Robust Assessment of Social and Solidarity Economy Actors. Conceptual Development and Empirical Validation

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Gordon, M.

The development and application of a typology of social enterprise ‘traditions’

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Grant, S. & Palakshappa, N.

Social enterprise and corporate social responsibility: Towards a deeper understanding of the links and overlaps

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Haklay, M., LemmoCharnalia, A., Lange, J., Guiding University Intellectual Property towards Social Enterprise: A UK Journey Green, G., Nikolovski, S., McDowall, H. & Gabriel, M.

Hata, M.

The Current State of NPOs as the Vanguard of Social Enterprises and policy interventions in Japan

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Hill O’Connor, C.

The role of Self Reliant Groups (SRGs) in improving individual health and wellbeing

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Hillenkamp, I.

Repenser les rapports entre sphères politique et économique avec Karl Polanyi

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Imamura, H.

Relational skills for horizontal solidarity in Japan: Unique relational development in LG13-63 co-production among social economy, for-profit, and governmental organizations

Jacobs, L. & Gijselinckx, C.

WISEs in Flanders: Steppingstones to sustainable work

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Jang, J.

Emerging Dual Legal Frameworks of Social Enterprise in South Korea: Backgrounds and Prospects

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Kamto, M. & Van Caillie, D.

La décision de traitement des risques dans l’entreprise sociale: le rôle de la perception des dirigeants à l’égard du risque, de l’incertitude et de la sécurité

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Karthikeyan, M.,

Social Statement Approach to Cooperative Social Performance Assessment: A Case of Lume Adama Farmers Cooperative Union in Ethiopia

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Kaźmierczak, T.

Toward a social mission-based typology of social enterprises

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Kumar, M. A. & Rajalakshmi, N. K.

Social Entrepreneurship in India: Recent Trends and Change

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Lambru, M. & Petrescu, C.

Institutionalising social enterprises in Romania

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Lucassen, J. & de Bakker, S. Variety in hybridity in sport organizations and how they cope with it

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Lyne, I., Ngin, C. & Santoyo-Rio, E.

Understanding Social Enterprise, Social Economy and Local Social Entrepreneurship in the Context of Rural Cambodia

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Manirambona, C.

Les facteurs de la relation d’agence en niveaux dans la longue chaîne bailleurs de fonds étrangers - ONG internationales – ONG locales - associations endogènes – bénéficiaires: cas du Burundi

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Marcuello, C. & NacharCalderón, P.

La contribución de las organizaciones económicas al desarrollo humano. Un modelo LG13-38 de evaluación

Matsunaga, Y.

Leadership and social capital in the creation of social entrepreneurship -An empirical analysis of social entrepreneurs in Japan

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McNeill, J.

How do public policy and programs enable social innovation activities that contribute to more sustainable forms of local and regional development?

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Mongelli, L., Rullani, F. & Versari, P.

Hybridization of diverging institutional logics through the “common tone”: the case of social entrepreneurship

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Nakagawa, S. & Laratta, R.

Rethinking the Human Resource Management for a Sustainable Social Enterprise: A LG13-26 Study of Japanese WISEs

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Niyokindi, L.

Les Facteurs d’Emergence de l’entrepreneuriat social en Afrique: Cas du Burundi

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Niyungeko, T. & Huybrechts, B.

La Gouvernance des coopératives en situation de conflit et de post-conflit

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Owusu, W. A. & Janssen, F.

Social Entrepreneurship: Effectuation and Bricolage Approaches to Venture Establishment in West Africa

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Pestoff, V. & Vamstad, J.

Promoting good work by enriching women’s work environment: the case of social enterprises in Swedish childcare

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Picciotto, L.

Social entrepreneurship and confiscated mafia properties in Italy

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Sacchetti, S. & Tortia, E.

The internal and external governance of cooperatives: membership and consistency LG13-15 of values

Sacchetti, S. & Tortia, E.

A “Human Growth” Perspective on Organizational Resources, Worker Satisfaction and Firm Performance

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Schenkel, M., Ermano, P. & Marino, D.

Recent Trends in the Supply and Demand of Volunteers

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Schwenger, D., Straub, T. & Competition and Strategy of Non-Governmental Organizations Borzillo, S.

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Searing, E.

Feeding the Social Enterprise Zoo: Variants between Corporate Forms

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Seddon, F., Hazenberg, R. & Denny, S.

What are the barriers to investing in social enterprises? An investigation into the attitudes and experiences of social entrepreneurs in the United Kingdom

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Seddon, F., Hazenberg, R. & Denny, S.

The UK’s first professional symphony orchestra cooperative: Musician’s hopes and fears

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Semenowicz, Ph.

Collaboration between private businesses and social enterprises: investigating complementarity in the field of work integration

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Teo, A. & Tan, W.-B.

Developing a Model of Social Entrepreneurship: A Grounded Study Approach

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Teo, A. & Tan, Y

The Conceptualization of Social Entrepreneurship by the Print Media: A Content Analysis of Print Media Stories Published in India and Singapore

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Thiru, Y.

Social Enterprise Orienting: Shareholder Profit to Stakeholder Prosperity

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Tsuyuki, M.

A Study on Business Models of WISEs for Disabled People - Diffusion Process of Social Innovation in Japan

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Valéau, P., Willems, J. & Parak, H.

Individual and group perceptions of nonprofit organizations’ performance: An exploratory multilevel quantitative approach

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Göler von Ravensburg

Registered Cooperatives as a form of social enterprise in Germany – status and perspectives

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Weber, O.

Sustainable Banking – History and Current Developments

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Wellens, L. & Jegers, M.

Downward accountability of Belgian nonprofit organizations - A survey based analysis

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Other publications “Social innovation research in the European Union: Approaches, findings and future directions” Policy Review In view of the increasing demands coming from policymakers and practitioners alike for social innovations and the emerging possibilities for new research avenues on social innovation, including in Horizon 2020, this policy review has produced a systematic overview of research findings of 17 comparative European projects in the area of social innovation. The review focuses on how these projects address ‘social innovation’ in terms of theory, methodology, policy areas, actors, and level of analysis with the aim of bringing the results to the attention of policymakers, wider groups of stakeholders and the broader public in a comprehensive way. The report makes substantial recommendations for future research practices on social innovation. This Policy Review was the result of a joint initiative of the European Commission, DG Research & Innovation, Unit ‘Social Sciences and Humanities’, and the FP7 project WILCO – ‘Welfare innovations at the local level in favour of cohesion’. It is available for download here: http://goo.gl/YvW2Cd

Special issue in the Social Enterprise Journal Volume 9 issue 2 of the Social Enterprise Journal, published by Emerald, had as guest editor Roger Spear (CRU, UK institutional member of EMES). This special issue aims to give a global perspective on current research on social enterprise. It is based on a selection of some of the best papers presented at the EMES research conference on social enterprise “Social Innovation through Social Entrepreneurship in Civil Society”, held in July 2011 at Roskilde University, Denmark. At that conference, there were 160 participants from 34 countries (five continents), and 115 papers were presented. It was quite a challenge reviewing and selecting the best quality papers, whilst also attempting to cover different themes, and global perspectives. All selected papers were reviewed, and subsequently modified by the authors. The articles included in this issue are: 1. The role of legitimacy in social enterprise-corporate collaboration Benjamin Huybrechts, Alex Nicholls (pp. 130 - 146) 2. Examining the labor market presence of US WISEs Kate Cooney (pp. 147 - 163) 3. Managers’ competences in social enterprises: which specificities? Charlotte Moreau, Sybille Mertens (pp. 164 - 183) 4. The ambiguities of (social) value creation: towards an extended understanding of entrepreneurial value creation for society 5. Social entrepreneurship – innovative challengers or adjustable followers? Malin Gawell (pp. 203 - 220) 25

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Members’ journals Journal of Entrepreneurial & Organizational Diversity (JEOD) JEOD focuses on theoretical and empirical research on the entrepreneurial diversity, its determinants and effects, as well as on comparisons between different types of enterprises and their aims. JEOD is an online only, open access, international journal whose articles are published as they are accepted. It is published by Euricse (one of the two Italian EMES institutional member) and Carlo Borzaga (Euricse and University of Trento) is one of the three CoChief Editors of JEOD. JEOD has a rolling submission process and submissions are accepted electronically via Editorial Manager. All submissions will be subject to double-blind peer review and should be prepared in accordance with the Guidelines for Authors.

www.jeodonline.com

Participation in editorial boards Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics Member of the editorial board: Roger Spear

JEOD Members of the editorial board: Jacques Defourny and Roger Spear More information: www.jeodonline.com

Journal of Social Entrepreneurship Members of the editorial board: Jacques Defourny

La revue internationale de l’économie sociale (RECMA)

and Marthe Nyssens

Member of editorial board: Nadine Richez-Battesti

More information: www.tandfonline.com/action/ journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=rjse20#. U61OK6hCfqM

Nonprofit Management and Leadership

Journal of Co-operative Studies

International editorial advisory board member: Chris

Member of the editorial board: Roger Spear 26

Cornforth

PUBLICATIONS

Revue des Etude Coopératives, Mutualistes et Associatives Member of editorial board: Carlo Borzaga

Social Enterprise Journal Associate editor: Simon Teasdale Members of the editorial board: Carlo Borzaga, Jacques Defourny, Benjamin Huybrechts, Jean-Louis Laville, Fergus Lyon, Marthe Nyssens, Mary O’ Shaughnessy, Roger Spear More information: http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/ products/journals/journals.htm?id=sej

Voluntas Members of the editorial board: Taco Brandsen and Bernard Enjolras More information: www.springer.com/social+sciences/ journal/11266

Voluntary Sector Review. An international journal of third sector research, policy and practice Members of editorial board: Carlo Borzaga, Adalbert Evers, Chris Cornforth

Revista de economía pública, social y cooperativa (CIRIEC-España) Members of the editorial board: Carmen Marcuello and Roger Spear

Rivista Impresa Sociale (online journal published by Iris Network) Scientific coordinator and editor: Carlo Borzaga Editor: Flaviano Zandonai Members of the editorial board: Jacques Defourny, Paolo Venturi More information: www.rivistaimpresasociale.it

Welfare Oggi (in Italian, published by Maggioli Editore) Member of the editorial board: Paolo Venturi More information: www.periodicimaggioli.it/rivista/servizi_ sociali_sanita/welfare_og

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RESEARCH INITIATIVES

Training and education One of the most relevant contributions by EMES is the development of training and education programs based on the solid research experience of the network. Whether in the form of formal university programs or in the form of intensive trainings for graduate students, EMES and its members are devoted to excellence in training around third sector and social enterprise issues among others.

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Training of PhD students Preparation for the 4th EMES PhD Summer School began. After three successful editions, the next one will be held in Timisoara (Romania) from June 29th to July 2nd, 2014. The host university will be West University Timisoara. The two Italian institutional EMES members, AICCON and EURICSE, organized the third edition of the European Summer School on Social Economics (ESSE) in collaboration with the Department of Economics of the University of Bologna. It was held at the University Residential Centre of Bertinoro, Forlì Campus, University of Bologna, from July 8th to 13th, 2013. This third edition is organised in partnership with EMES, EURICSE and SECS IRT (University of Bologna). This Summer School is aimed at students currently engaged in graduate studies as well as PhD students and researchers. Practitioners wishing to deepen their knowledge form a theoretical point of view are also welcome. More information at www.esse.unibo.it In the framework of WILCO, a postgraduate training module was developed on ‘scaling social innovation’ together with the Bertelsmann Foundation and the University of Münster. The EMES member leading this initiative was Taco Brandsen (Radboud University Nijmegen). In the context of the Doctoral Seminar in Social Entrepreneurship organized Timisoara by Panorama. Flickr

by EMES members Benjamin Huybrechts and Sybille Mertens (HEC-University of Liege, Belgium), a Seminar in social entrepreneurship was organized from February to May 2013. The contents of the seminar included talks from well-

The host university will be West University Timisoara from June 29th to July 2nd, 2014

known experts in the field including: kk Sybille Mertens & Benjamin Huybrechts (HEC-ULg): Overview of research

paradigms and schools of thought in social entrepreneurship (18th February) kk Teresa Nelson (Simmons College, Boston): The role of social capital in the

context of social entrepreneurship (4th March) kk Simon Cornée (Université de Rennes): Social banks and reciprocity in the

credit market (20th March) kk Anne-Claire Pache (ESSEC Business School): Social enterprise as a hybrid

organization responding to competing institutional logics (25th March) kk Pascal Dey (University of St. Gallen): Governing the social through “social

entrepreneurship”: A Foucauldian view of power and governing in advanced liberal society (6th May)

The Seminar was open to any interested Doctoral student. Participants were invited to write a summary of each session in order to have it published in the EJEB (see below) as a way to make widely known the discussion and conclusions of each session.

TRAINING AND EDUCATION

An important outlet for PhDs early-stage

November

researchers from around the world is EMES Junior Experts’ Blog (EJEB), which was launched in September 2011. Via the EJEB, PhDs can share their views on issues related to social enterprise, social entrepreneurship and the third sector. The aim is to feature different perspectives,

Series of Doctoral seminars in social entrepreneurship (4): Pascal Dey: Governing the social through “social entrepreneurship”: A Foucauldian view of power and governing in advanced liberal society” by Gildas Bagne and Dalida Kouotou (Belgium)

topics and geographical regions as explored in each of the high quality research projects being carried out by those students. EJEB aims to provide an opportunity for junior scholars to connect their area of research and expertise with topics that are relevant to various audiences, including other young researchers and

September Series of Doctoral seminars in social entrepreneurship – (1): Teresa Nelson (Simmons College, Boston): “The role of social capital in the context of social entrepreneurship” by Corentin Vermeulen (Belgium)

the general public. The pieces included in

Training and education

The following seven posts were published October Series of Doctoral seminars in social entrepreneurship – Anne-Claire Pache (ESSEC Business School): “Social enterprise as a hybrid organization responding to competing institutional logics” by Frédéric Dufays and Aleksandra Szymanska (Belgium) Series of Doctoral seminars in social entrepreneurship – Summary for the EJEB (2): Simon Cornée (Université de Rennes): Social banks and reciprocity in the credit market by Amelie Mernier and Nadège Lorquet (Belgium)

EJEB are written in a language accessible for people of all educational and cultural backgrounds. In 2013, the EJEB received 4,635 visitors, with an average of 386 visitors per month. You can see the whole report online here: http://emesphdnetwork.wordpress.

May Worth every penny – Social change ideas and practice in three contemporary Finnish social enterprises by Eeva Houtbeckers (Finland)

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March “New Co-operative Development in China: An Institutional Approach“ by Li Zhao (China/Belgium)

countries of origin for our visitors

Most visitors came from Spain. Belgium & The United States were not far behind.

January “Ethics and social economy” by Carmen Guzmán (Belgium)

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Academic programs Master Programs

The Masters focuses on social businesses, therefore social

Belgium: MA in Social Enterprise Management by CES at the University of Liege

and other non-profit organizations. The program offers

In 2013, the 2nd edition of this two-year program took place. More information: www.ces.ulg.ac.be/en_GB/education/ master-in-management-of-social-enterprises

Denmark: MA in Social Entrepreneurship and Management (SEM) by CSE at Roskilde University This is an international Masters program whose 1st edition of this two-year interdisciplinary program attracted 12 students, the 2nd 27 students. For the 3rd edition (2013-2014) a larger body of high-quality students is expected. SEM is targeted at both International and Danish applicants and all teaching and curricula are in English. More information: www.ruc.dk/en/research/search-research-centers/cse/ master-in-social-entrepreneurship-and-management

cooperatives along with associations and foundations management training with the objective of acquiring the skills and capacities to become a manager in enterprises that operate in the social sector. http://euricse.eu/it/formazione/master

Italy: Professional Master in “Economia della Cooperazione” (Economics of Co-operation) Promoted by University of Bologna, School of Economics, Management and Statistics, AICCON and the Italian Alliance of Co-operatives (ACI).

Ireland: MBS in Co-operative and Social Enterprise Centre for Co-operative Studies, University Colleague Cork This is a part-time Master’s Degree offered by distance learning (e-learning). It is designed to equip professionals and volunteers with the skills and knowledge needed

France: Master 2 in Human resources management of Social Economy organizations Promoted by the faculty of Economics and Management of Aix-Marseille University (12th edition). More information at http://formations.univ-amu.fr/SPBRH5B.html

Italy: Master Universitario in Gestione di Imprese Sociali “Master G.I.S.” (Master in Management of Social Enterprises) Euricse manages this Masters program, now in its 18th annual edition, on behalf of the University of Trento, Department of Economics.

to develop their careers in the social enterprise and cooperative sectors. The part-time, e-learning mode of delivery allows students to gain a postgraduate degree while continuing with their professional commitments. More information at www.ucc.ie/en/ckl10

Spain: MA in Corporate Social Responsibility (MRS 2013) by CIES at the University of Barcelona In 2013, the 12th and last edition of this program took place.

Training and education

Other programs and certificates

Italy: Professional certification “L’innovazione nelle Imprese Cooperative Sociali” (Innovation in Social Cooperative firms) promoted by AICCON and EURICSE

Belgium: Executive certificate in Social Enterprise Management (CES, ULg-HEC)

This course responds to the question of how social enterprises (primarily social cooperatives) can meet ever increasing social needs. The objective is to develop

Germany: Post-graduate course Lokale Soziale Ökonomie (Local Social Economy)

strategies for enterprises operating in the social sector to grow and expand, in particular into new sectors and responding to new needs.

February – July 2013. Technologie-Netzwerk Berlin

The Innovation course has been offered two times with the

Italy: Postgraduate vocational training programmes by AICCON:

aim of helping social businesses enter into new sectors and

kk “Economia e Gestione del Credito Cooperativo”

areas of activity or reorganize their business activities. http://euricse.eu/it/formazione/corsi-di-formazione

(Economics and Management of Credit Union), 3rd ed., promoted by University of Bologna, School of Economics, Management and Statistics (Forlì Campus)

Italy: The Fund Raising School, professional certifications on fund raising promoted by AICCON.

in co-operation with the Federation of Credit Unions of the Italian Emilia-Romagna Region of. kk “Economia e Management delle organizzazioni non

profit a movente ideale” (Economics and Management of Nonprofit organizations) promoted by University of Bologna, School of Economics, Management and Statistics (Forlì Campus). kk “Manager dell’Innovazione nell’Impresa Cooperativa”

(Innovation Manager of Co-operative firm) promoted by University of Bologna, School of Economics, Management and Statistics (Forlì Campus) in cooperation with Legacoop Forlì-Cesena.

RESEARCH INITIATIVES

Events Every two years EMES organizes a major international research conference devoted to social enterprise. This year the fourth edition of this event took place in Liege (Belgium) and it was a success as reflected in the number of participants and their level of satisfaction. Other events were also organized by EMES members around the world.

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Events organised by EMES

3 full days 325 researchers, PhD including

75 students

representatives 65 field and policy-makers

40 countries

represented

Over 295 papers in

4th EMES conference (Liege, July 2013) Over 500 single papers and 35 panel proposals were received, which constituted a clear sign of success; it reflected that authors are keen on mobilizing other authors for a specific proposal. In all, EMES received numerous signals that this conference has become over the years a marketplace for “social enterprise” research because others are much more limited or have specific traits. This represents an opportunity but also a responsibility toward the research community to continually improve the quality ofthis event.

Best paper award The winners of the “Best Conference Paper” are Simon Teasdale, Fergus Lyon and Rob Baldock for their paper “The politically motivated construction of evidence:

78 parallel sessions

A methodological critique of the social enterprise growth myth”. They kindly

A book-signing event

participation in the 4th EMES PhD Summer School (July 2014).

with authors… THE kick-off meeting of the ICSEM project

A full-day International Forum

donated the 350 € to advance the EMES PhD Network in the form of a bursary for

This paper has been published on the, originally published in the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship (Volume 4, Issue 2, 2013). An Open Access status has been granted so it is free to access in its online version. Please use the following link: www.tandfonline.com

EVENTS

Feedback from participants All participants received an evaluation survey in order to capture their opinions about the event both at the content and organizational level. A total of 48 responses were gathered, some during the conference and some after a second effort to gather feedback done via a survey.

Please rank the quality of the Conference overall

Please rank the quality of the parallel paper sessions that you attended

Please rank the quality of the forum and the plenary sessions:

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Other events

“Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Social Enterprise” (in preparation) EMES will be one of the co-organizers of the 1st International Management Conference titled “Challenges, performances and tendencies in the organization management”. Specifically, EMES will have a leading role in the organization of the track “Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Social Enterprise”. The conference is hosted by the Romanian Scientific Management Society at Danube Delta (Romania). The deadline for abstracts submissions was 8th December 2013.

Lars Hulgård, president of EMES, participated in the following academic events on behalf of the network: 1st International Research Conference on Social Business, Kuala Lumpur, Malasya (5th -6th November 2013) He was invited to deliver a keynote speech together with Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus at the 1st International Research Conference on Social Business, which was held in parallel to the 4th Annual Global Social Business Summit. Organized by the Grameen Creative Lab and Global Social Business Summit, the 1st International Research Conference on Social Business was held at the Universiti Kebangsaan, Malaysia. The aim of this event was to gather researchers working on social business or related areas; to stimulate an inter-disciplinary and international research community around this area of growing international significance; and to enhance capacity, quality and recognition of research in social business. The conference coincided with the 4th Annual Global Social Business Summit, a gathering of several hundred social business practitioners. At the beginning, academics met informally and later on a set of pre-conference Academia Days were established. For the first time, a unique event has been set up devoted to research around social businesses.

”Challenges and Innovation in Management and Leadership”, University of Timisoara, Romania (11th October 2013) “Seminar about social innovation and social entrepreneur”, Lillehammer University College, Norway (33th November 2013) 38

RESEARCH INITIATIVES

Communication and dissemination Communicating about what EMES and all its members do is a core part of what we do: failing to do so would make the results of our research go unnoticed by the very stakeholders concerned by it. Our goal is to enlarge the notion of ‘disseminating’ so as to include ‘engagement’ with researchers and other relevant actors.

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Rebranding EMES 2002

After 10 years of existence, EMES revamped its visual identity (including its logo) and redesigned all the associated materials. The redesign of EMESâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; visual identity took over five months of intensive work around three proposals and the finetuning of the selected one. After the analysis stage, we detected the need to initiate a global change in the communication strategy of the organization. Beginning first with the redesign of the brand, in order to build a new identity, consistent with the stage of change and growth that the organization was entering at that time.

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EMES | Europe

Connection

The World

Research

Collaboration

Collective intelligence

Advanced science

Group of researchers

Spreading knowledge

Guarantee of quality and trust

Creation and development of ideas

Third sector issues Global reach and impact

Communication and dissemination

Training and education

A full brand architecture was developed as part of the strategic planning process. The result were four clearly differentiated work areas in addition to the general brand. Individual subbrands were created based on the umbrella brand, each of them with its own color.

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EMES on the Internet EMES Website Parallel to the redesign of its visual identity, EMES redesigned and launched a new website that will accompany the network and its members in the next years. The two main new features included a members only area to accompany the new membership strategy and the possibility of making donations when downloading publications.

Research

NEW STRUCTURE OF THE WEBSITE What does EMES do?

Who we are

Events

Why join?

Dynamic content: research projects, events, publications

What

and training.

Who is EMES?

Who

Training & education

Focus areas

Descriptive content about the organization that provides credibility to its actions. Publications

We identified and studied the various â&#x20AC;&#x153;user journeysâ&#x20AC;? to detect the key interactive factors for the user of the EMES site. This ensured that good interactivity results were achieved during the development of the relaunch process.

News

Communication and dissemination

EMES website visits Map Overlay | 171 countries www. emes.net January 01- December 31, 2013

Visits by County Main 9 countries Spain

3,431

United Kingdom

2,516

Germany

Belgium

3,288

France

1,972

Japan

984

United States

2,696

Italy

1,631

Netherlands

892

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EMES and the social networks Facebook Page “Likes” January 01- December 31, 2013 700 Total likes 500

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621

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Youtube channel | Videos uploaded #1

 ICSEM Project - Meeting in Liege on 5th July 2013 (Part 1/3)

 ICSEM Project - Meeting in Liege on 5th July 2013 (Part 2/3)

 ICSEM Project - Meeting in Liege on 5th July 2013 (Part 3/3)

 “Social enterprise in the context of EU public policies” 4th EMES Conference on Social Enterprises

 “New frontiers for social enterprise research” 4th EMES Conference on Social Enterprises

 Opening Plenary Session of the 4th EMES International Research Conference

 “Organizing for Society: A Typology of Social Entrepreneurship Models” 4th EMES Conference

 EMES PhD Students: On the cutting edge of social enterprise research

 4th EMES Conference: Exchanging the latest on social enterprise research

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 Building knowledge together and supporting a global community of researchers on social enterprise

Twitter | @emesnetwork Followers Following Tue, Dec 31 2013 Followers 445 Following 253 Tue, Dec 31 2013 Followers 304 Following 248

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tweets and mentions

445

followers at Dec 31st 44

Communication and dissemination

News page and News Alerts A total of six EMES News Alerts were launched in 2013, making it a bi-monthly communication. They are available in the News Alert archive: http://goo.gl/hxcMf0 The range of items covered in this communication tool is very wide and includes publications, events, general announcements, teaching opportunities, etc. It is recognized as a valuable tool by our audiences as demonstrated by the ongoing rise of subscriptions (1,203 by the end of 2013). Including news items in the EMES News Alert is one of the unique benefits of the EMES membership. Interested members only need to contact the Coordination Unit (info@emes.net) with their information piece and any additional documents and it will be included in the next News Alert.

Dissemination campaigns There were 115 signed up people in Jan 2013 and 1,203 people had signed up by December 2013. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the info on the News Alerts produced:

1,203 people signed up by

12/19/2013

EMES News Alert - December 2013

11/28/2013

EMES News Alert - November 2013

05/07/2013

EMES News Alert - May 2013

03/14/2013

EMES News Alert #3 (March 2013)

03/06/2013

EMES News Alert - New website coming soon

02/28/2013

EMES News Alert (February 2013)

December 2013

EMES News Alerts

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Human highway by kevin dooley

RESEARCH INITIATIVES

Functioning and governance of EMES The Board of Directors of EMES meets at least twice a year to discuss issues related with strategic issues and to monitor the progress of the Network. It engaged in a strategic planning process in 2011 that resulted in a new strategic direction (2013-2015) largely based on the enlargement of the membership to the international community of researchers on social enterprise and the third sector.

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Governing bodies Board of Directors

The Board is currently composed of ten members elected by the General Assembly.

Lars Hulgård, founding member

well as on social cooperatives, and the

of EMES, was elected President

evolution of this sector in Europe. He

of EMES on January 2010. He is

is also concerned with welfare systems

the founder the Centre for Social

and allocation of social services and

Entrepreneurship, Danish institutional

health-care. From 1997 to 2008 he

member of EMES. He is professor of

was the chairman of the Istituto

social entrepreneurship at Roskilde

Studi Sviluppo Aziende Nonprofit

University (RUC, Denmark), where he

(ISSAN), based at Trento University, a

serves three main functions: 1. Chair of

research department concentrating

the research group Social Innovation

on nonprofit organizations and social

and Organizational Learning, 2. Chair

enterprises. In 2008, he founded

of RUCinnovation – RUC’s platform

Euricse. He has participated in many

for innovative collaboration, 3.

conferences and seminars both at

Research, teaching and consultancy in

international and national level and

social innovation, social work, social

he has served on many scientific

entrepreneurship, co-production in

committees of journals, institutional

social service and capacity building. In

and public bodies. He has written

2004-05 he was the first international

and co-edited numerous books and

coordinator of CINEFOGO-Network

papers on labour economics, social and

of Excellence, an international cross-

cooperatives enterprises.

disciplinary network funded by the Lars Hulgård

Carlo Borzaga

EU, 6th Framework Programme. He

Taco Brandsen is the representative

has been visiting scholar at Harvard

of the individual EMES members

University (2004), University of

and joined the Board in July 2013.

California (1998) and University of

He is Professor of Comparative

Mannheim (1992). He was a research

Public Administration at Radboud

consultant to the Danish Ministry of

University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Social Affairs between 1990 and 1998

He received master’s degrees in

and former President of the Danish

Public Administration and in English

Sociological Association. He was

Literature from Leiden University

recently appointed member of the

and a PhD in Public Administration

Danish Government Committee on

from Twente University, for which

social enterprise.

he won the Van Poelje Award for the best dissertation on public

Taco Brandsen

Carlo Borzaga, founding member of

administration in The Netherlands. He

EMES, is the chairman of the European

has published extensively on issues

Research Institute on Cooperative

such as governance, public services,

and Social Enterprises (Euricse),

co-production, social innovation and

one of the two Italian institutional

the third sector. He has been Visiting

members of EMES. He is full professor

Scholar at Harvard University and

of economic policy at University of

Corvinus University Budapest. He has

Trento (Italy). His specific interests are

been involved in numerous national

labour economics, and the economic

and European research projects,

analysis of nonprofit organizations,

for example, as Coordinator of the

focusing on cooperatives in general as

FP7 WILCO project (2010-2014) and

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participant in the Third Sector Impact

Jean-Louis Laville, founding member

and LIPSE projects. He is or has been

of EMES, is an individual member

board member of the European Group

of EMES. He initially graduated in

of Public Administration (EGPA), of

economics, before obtaining his PhD

the International Research Society

in sociology from the Institut d’études

on Public Management (IRSPM) and

politiques in Paris. He also holds an HDR

of the Dutch Association for Public

(Habilitation to conduct researches

Administration, as well as Secretary-

– Paris X). He is a professor at the

General of the European Association

Conservatoire national des arts et

for Public Administration Accreditation

métiers (CNAM, Paris), head of the Chair

(EAPAA).

of Service Relations and co-director

Jacques Defourny

of the Laboratoire interdisciplinaire Jacques Defourny is the director of

pour la sociologie économique (LISE

the Centre d’économie social at the

UMR 6209), CNAM-CNRS. Jean-Louis

HEC-University of Liege (CES), one of

Laville is also a member of several

the two Belgian members of EMES.

expert societies. He is for example a

He was the president of EMES from

member – representing Europe – of the

its constitution in 2002 to 2010, and is

Board of directors of the International

currently its treasurer. He is professor

Society for Third Sector Research

of economics at HEC Management

(ISTR), and a member of the Association

School, University of Liege (Belgium)

Internationale des Sociologues de

where he is also a director of the

Langue Française (AISLF), within which

Centre for Social Economy (www.ces-

he is co-responsible for the Research

ulg.be). Since 1996 and until recently,

Committee on “Economic sociology”. He

he has been acting as the founding

is the European coordinator of the Karl

coordinator and then the president of

Polanyi Institute of Political Economy.

Jean-Louis Laville

the EMES European Research Network (2002-2010). He holds a Master

Marthe Nyssens, founding member of

in economics (Catholic University

EMES, is the president of the Centre

of Louvain), a Master of public

de Recherches Interdisciplinaires

administration (Cornell University,

Travail, Etat, Société (CIRTES, Catholic

Ithaca, N.Y.) and a Ph.D. in economics

University of Louvain, Belgium), one of

(University of Liege). His work focuses

the two Belgian institutional members

on the emergence of social enterprise

of EMES. She is full professor at the

in various parts of the world and on

Department of Economics of the same

conceptual and quantitative analysis of

University. She holds a Masters in

the third sector in developed as well as

Economics (University of California at

developing countries.

San Diego) and a Ph.D. in Economics (University of Louvain). Her work focuses on conceptual approaches to the third sector (both in developed and developing countries), on the links between third sector organisations and public policies and on the emergence of different social enterprise models in an international comparative perspective.

Marthe Nyssens

Institutional members have a majority of seats in the Board but the other two categories of individual members (researchers and PhD students) also have representatives appointed to the Board.

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New elections to the Board are planned for 2015 once the implementation of the new strategic vision has been completed.

Michael Roy

Mary O’Shaughnessy

Michael Roy is the elected

Roger Spear, founding member of

representative of the PhD and Early

EMES, is the Chair of the Cooperative

Career Researcher EMES members

Research Unit (CRU) at Open

and joined the Board in July 2013. He

University, UK institutional member

joined the Yunus Centre for Social

of EMES. He is currently the vice-

Business and Health at Glasgow

president of EMES. He is Professor

Caledonian University in the summer

of Social Entrepreneurship at Open

of 2011 after completing his Masters

University (UK) and Roskilde University

in Social Research (Policy Analysis). He

(Denmark). He teaches organisational

is undertaking a PhD on the topic of

systems and research methods in the

“Conceptualising social enterprise as a

Centre for Complexity and Change at

health and well-being ‘intervention’”.

the Open University. His first degree

A skilled project and programme

was from University College London,

manager, social entrepreneur and

and he has a Masters degree in Systems

– from over a decade working as a

from Lancaster University.

Senior Policy Executive in the Scottish Government – policy specialist, Michael

Isabel Vidal, founding member of

was also a freelance consultant

EMES, is the President of the Centro de

working with a range of public sector

Investigación en Economía y Sociedad

and third sector clients on research

(CIES), Spanish institutional members

projects and on business and policy

of EMES. She is Professor of Economics

development. He has significant

at the University of Barcelona and

experience working with a wide

President of the Research Center in

range of groups in the voluntary and

Economy and Society (CIES). From

community sectors, and those involved

1994 Academic Director of the Master

in developing and supporting social

in Social Economy and Direction of

enterprise in Scotland.

the non profit organization and from 2003, Academic Director of the Master

Mary O’Shaughnessy, founding

in Corporate Social Responsibility.

member of EMES, is a researcher

Accounting and Social Audit, both of

at the Centre for Co-operative

the University of Barcelona.

Studies, University College Cork; the institutional Irish member of EMES. She is also a full-time lecturer in the Department of Food Business & Roger Spear

Development at University College Cork. The topic of her PhD was survival strategies of rural based social enterprises. She is a member of the Irish National Rural Network and is the academic director of the NUI BSc Rural Development by Distance Learning. She teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Her research interests include rural development,

Isabel Vidal

social and cooperative enterprises.

Functioning and governance of EMES

General Assembly The opening of EMES to a global membership has brought in new governance issues that are strategically being addressed. The first global General Assembly had place in Liege in the course of the 4th EMES conference and it brought together 76 members. The agenda of the meeting included the following points:

1. Welcoming and presentation of strategic vision – Lars Hulgård, president of EMES 2. Introduction of new and old members - All members 3. EMES in its four action pillars: 3.1. Research strategy (including Publications) – Marthe Nyssens, Member of the Board 3.2. Education and training – Carlo Borzaga, Member of the Board and Benjamin Huybrechts, CES, HEC-ULg Management School 3.3. Membership and governance – Rocío Nogales, managing director of EMES 4. Moving forward with an enlarged membership: 4.1. How can the new members contribute to the mission and the consolidation of EMES? - Break down in groups 4.2. Presentation of group discussion results 5. Presentation and approval of accounts 2012 – Jacques Defourny, Member of the Board 6. Acceptance of institutional members – FinSERN (Finland) and LEST (France) 7. Selection of next GA meeting date and time

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Membership

Individual and institutional members

While we will continue to deepen the European perspective, EMES now wants to combine the latter with approaches forged in other parts of the world.

The EMES European Research Network was founded by a core group of members (institutional and individual) who began working in the incipient field of social enterprise and who shared some values regarding the research they were doing and what was missing from the existing landscape. This collective endeavor began informally in 1996 with the first EU-funded research project on social enterprise and crystallized in a formal association in 2002. After 10 years of formal existence, the EMES network had not only grown and evolved with its field of study but it has witnessed a boom in the attention given to social enterprise and social entrepreneurship from the international research community. Capitalizing on the numerous expressions of interest received during all these years and the growing network of collaborators, partners and associated researchers, we at EMES thought that the moment had come to open our membership to interested individual researchers (including PhD and graduate students), scholars and professors across the world. This represents a strategic move aiming to reflect the nature of comparative research on social enterprise and related fields and to ensure that a networked global community of researchers continues to advance the field during the next 20 years.

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Individual members There were eight individuals among the founding members of EMES and their contribution to the development of EMES has been essential. We believe in the power of connecting individual researchers around the world and the EMES membership strategy launched in 2013 seeks to facilitate that researchers know about each other’s interests, publications and related information while exchanging opportunities for joint publications and research initiatives. Keeping up with the tradition of incorporating PhD students to the activities of EMES, there is a specific individual membership type for doctoral students wishing to connect with peers and established scholars around the world.

We have included below the names and countries of the members who joined EMES as individuals in 2013 (researchers and PhD students). Researchers

Graduate Student

1. Yiorgos Alexopoulos, Belgium

25. Jean-Louis Laville, France

50. Angela Addae, United States

2. Mohamed Nasser Almahallawi,

26. Vincent Lhuillier, France

51. Giorgos Apostolakis, Greece

27. Agnese Lesinska, Latvia

52. Jessica Aschari-Lincoln, Belgium

3. Maria Anastasiadis, Austria

28. Matsuyo Makino, Japan

53. Paulo Bento, Portugal

4. Samuel Barco Serrano, Spain

29. Carmen Marcuello, Spain

54. Saskia Crucke, Belgium

5. Rebecca Berridge, United

30. John Justin McMurtry, Canada

55. Jennifer Eschweiler, Germany

31. Sara Minard, United States

56. Hyungsik Eum, Belgium

32. Sachiko Nakagawa, Japan

57. Ramón Fisac, Spain

33. Alexandra Moskovskaya, Russia

58. Helen Fitzhugh, United Kingdom

34. Teresa Nelson, United States

59. Cecilia Grieco, Italy

35. Sonja Novkovic, Belgium

60. Carmen Guzmán, Spain

36. Noreen O Shea, France

61. Tania Haddad, Lebanon

37. Roland Pepermans, Belgium

62. Mihai Lisetchi, Romania

38. Alan Sanderson, United Kingdom

63. Joanne McNeill, Australia

39. Marina Schenkel, Italy

64. Thomas Montgomery, Belgium

40. Gordon Shockley, United States

65. Pablo Nachar Calderón, Chile

41. Thomas Straub, Switzerland

66. Dylan Nelson, United Kingdom

42. Karel Strnad, Czech Republic

67. Luc Romaric Nkok

43. Sophie Swaton, Switzerland

68. Michael Roy, United Kingdom

44. Simon Teasdale, United Kingdom

69. Christoph Schnabel, Germany

45. Albert Teo, Singapore

70. Elisabeth Searing

46. Shu-Twu Wang, Taiwan

71. Pietro Versari, Italy

47. Bernadette Wüthrich,

72. Wendy Wu, United Kingdom

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Kingdom 6. Taco Brandsen, Belgium 7. Carola Conde, Mexico 8. Denise Crossan, Ireland 9. Millán Díaz-Foncea, Spain 10. Peter Elson, Canada 11. Sílvia Ferreira, Portugal 12. Atsushi Fujii, Japan 13. Malin Gawell, Sweden 14. Patrick Gilormini, France 15. Nicole Göler von Ravensburg, Germany 16. Michael Gonin, Switzerland 17. Imamura Hajime, Japan 18. Kohki Harada, United Kingdom 19. Masao Hata, Japan 20. Isabelle Hillenkamp, Switzerland 21. Tomasz Kazmierczak, Poland 22. anelle Kerlin, United States 23. Yu-Yuan Kuan, Taiwan 24. Christian Lautermann, Germany

Switzerland

73. Li Zhao, Belgium

48. Dennis Young, United States 49. Jean-Christophe Zuchuat, Switzerland

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INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; AREA Members can access their personalized area in order to manage their profile. Different features exist, including the possibility of describing their projects with a view on identifying possible collaborators for their projects and publications.

2013 October 15 individual+associated to 113 institutional members countries in 32 have joined EMES Functioning and governance of EMES

Researchers by country

4 Norway

11 United Kingdom

2 The Netherlands

4 Sweden

4 Denmark

2 Finland 1 Russia

3 Canada 4 Germany

1 Ireland

1 Austria

11 Belgium

1 Romania

1 Portugal

9 United States

1 Poland 5 Japan

1 Bulgaria 1 Lebanon

1 Mexico 6 Spain

7 Italy 5 Switzerland 4 France 1 Ethiopia

1 Kiribati

2 Taiwan

1 India

1 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

1 Singapore

2 Australia

1 Chile

In addition to the individual members captured in the map, EMES includes the following institutional members: AICCON - Research Centre on Cooperative and Non Profit Organizatios Univ. of Bologna, Forlì Campus (IT)

CESIS - Centro de Estudos para a Intervenção Social Lisbon (PT)

Centre de Recherche et d’Information sur la Démocratie et l’Autonomie Paris (FR)

Centro de Investigación de Economía y Sociedad Barcelona (ES)

Center for Social Economy Univ. of Liege (BE)

Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche Travail, État et Société Catholic Univ. of Louvain (BE)

Finish Social Enterprise Research Network, FinSERN (FIN)

Co-operatives Research Unit Open Univ., Milton Keynes (UK)

Laboratoire d’Economie et de Sociologie du Travail, LEST Univ. of Aix-Marseille (FR)

Centre for Social Entrepreneurship Roskilde University (DK) Centre for Co-operative Studies Univ. College Cork (IE)

European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises Univ. of Trento (IT)

Institute for Social Research Oslo (NO) Södertörns Högskola Huddinge (SE) Institute for Civil Society Studies Ersta Sköndal Univ. College (SE)

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Institutional members EMES institutional members are core to the functioning of the network both as leaders of collective research projects and as hosts of major EMES events such as the International Research Conferences on Social Enterprise. With the addition of two new institutional members - FinSERN (Finland) and LEST (France) – the institutional members of EMES are 15, representing 11 countries. They are listed below together with the individual members associated to each of them:

AICCON - Research Centre on

Center for Social Economy. Univ. of

Centro de Investigación de Economía y

Cooperation and Non Profit

Liege (BE)

Sociedad. Barcelona (ES)

Organizations. Univ. of Bologna, Forlì Campus (IT) 1. Federica Bandini 2. Andrea Bassi 3. Giulio Ecchia 4. Giorgia Perra 5. Sara Rago 6. Pier Luigi Sacco 7. Paolo Venturi

12. Jacques Defourny

22. Isabel Vidal Martinez

13. Sybille Mertens

23. Jordi Marti

14. Benjamin Huybrechts

24. Jordi Morrós

15. Amélie Mernier

25. Xavier Torrens

16. Charlotte Moreau

26. Monica Gelambi

17. Frédéric Dufays 18. Hyungsik Eum 19. Thomas Bauwens 20. Michel Marée

8. Stefano Zamagni

Centre for Co-operative Studies. Univ.

CESIS - Centro de Estudos para a

Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche

College Cork (IE)

Intervenção Social. Lisbon (PT)

Travail, État et Société. Catholic Univ. of Louvain (BE)

9. Mary O’Shaughnessy

21. Heloísa Perista

10. Bridget Carroll

27. Marthe Nyssens

11. Patricia O’Hara

28. Lemaìtre Andreia 29. Maïté le Polain 30. Thomas Pongo 31. Florence Degavre 32. Olivier Brolis 33. Francisco Sepúlveda 34. Anaïs Périlleux 35. Dédé Alliango 36. Donatienne Desmette

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Centre de Recherche et d’Information

European Research Institute on

Institute for Social Research.

sur la Démocratie et l’Autonomie.

Cooperative and Social Enterprises.

Oslo (NO)

Paris (FR)

Univ. of Trento (IT) 71. Bernard Enjolras

37. Laurent Fraisse

53. Carlo Borzaga

72. Guro Ødegård

38. Elisabetta Bucolo

54. Giulia Galera

73. Kari Steen-Johnsen

55. Antonio Fici 56. Yiorgos Alexopoulos 57. Chiara Carini 58. Sara Depedri 59. Barbara Franchini Co-operatives Research Unit. Open

60. Pier Angelo Mori

Univ., Milton Keynes (UK)

61. Ermanno Tortia

39. Roger Spear

Laboratoire d’Economie et de Sociologie du Travail, LEST. Univ. of Aix-Marseille (FR)

62. Flaviano Zandonai 74. Francesca Petrella

40. Mike Aiken

75. Nadine Richez-Battesti

41. Chris Cornforth 42. Rita Rhodes Finish Social Enterprise Research Network, FinSERN (FIN) 63. Pekka Pättiniemi 64. Harri Kostilainen

Södertörns Högskola. Huddinge (SE) 76. Yohanan Stryjan

Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. Roskilde University (DK) 43. Lars Hulgård 44. Rikke Egaa Jürgensen 45. Christian Franklin Svensson 46. Shajahan PK

Institute for Civil Society Studies. Ersta Sköndal Univ. College (SE)

47. Linda L. Andersen

65. Lars Svedberg

48. Monika Fæster

66. Victor Pestoff

49. Lise Bisballe

67. Marie Nordfeldt

50. Christine Revsbech

68. Ola Segnestam Larsson

51. Gladius Koluthongan

69. Anna Carrigan

52. Kenneth O-Chukwuma

70. Johan Vamstad

A detailed description of each research center can be found in the “About us” section of www.emes.net

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RocĂo Nogales

Sabine Spada

Jennifer Eschweiler

Julie Rijpens

Coordination Unit The EMES Coordination Unit continued to deliver critical support for the research projects and the events organized by the Network or some of its members. Internally, it welcomed a new fellow, Jennifer Eschweiler, who had participated in the 2nd edition of the EMES PhD Summer School. She spent three months (October-December) at EMES providing assistance with the closing of the WILCO project, which ended up being extremely demanding due to the addition of new tasks in the last phases of the project. In addition, Julie Rijpens, who had come on board to work on the REScoop 20-2020 project left EMES to finish her PhD thesis and continue her professional career. The Managing Director of EMES continued to serve as member of the European Experts Groups on Social Enterprise (GECES) put together by the Commission. She was also invited to prepare and have an active role in the Strasbourg event organized by the European Commission in January 2014, namely as member of the drafting team of the declaration expected to emerge from the event.

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Financial aspects

16% 35%

The turnover of EMES in 2013 approached 250,000€ with the majority of the income stemming from research projects (35%); the organization of events (30%);

18%

membership fees (18%); the provision of services (16%), and other minor areas such as book sales (1%).

30%

As an organization becoming global and with limited resources, EMES will have to face some challenges associated to increase in its activities as well as to the pressure resulting from an increased difficulty to raise general operating funds. When EMES was first established 12 years ago it was virtually alone with this research agenda plus the geographic focus was on Europe. This situation has drastically changed as a result of a boost in interest in social enterprise research

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Organizations of events

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Membership fees

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Provision of services

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Minor areas/book sales

and practice at the global level. In general, the key challenge for EMES is the fact that there is a fundamental part of its activity that is not covered by the services

Research projects

delivered in relationship to projects. There are several options that are currently being explored by the Board of Directors that include enlarging the membership fees, increasing the revenue coming from the events or increasing fundraising.

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Overall evaluation for 2013 and overview for 2014 The present year was a busy period for EMES, both on the research and event fronts. Three fully-fledged projects were under way (ICSEM, WILCO, and REScoop) albeit at different stages. Next year will begin with the ending of one of EMESâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; flagship projects, WILCO, and the beginning of a promising one, the Third Sector Impact (TSI), lead by Bernard Enjolras from the Institute for Social Research (Norway). The first set of call of the new Horizon 2020 programme of the European Commission will be launched, thus also opening the door to new possibilities for collaborating with partner organizations. At the organizational level, EMES will have to set up the renewal of its Board and the call for elections at the General Assembly in the course of 2014. In addition, the bylaws will be revised and approved by all the members gathered as well. The fourth edition of the EMES PhD Summer School will be organized for the first time in a Central Eastern Europe country, which illustrates to the aim of EMES to be present in this area. The support of EMES institutional and individual members and its staff members was crucial in 2013. By opening up the membership EMES undertook a certain risk but based on the balance of the first year we are up for a promising future. It remains to stabilize the membership so as to be able to ensure that some of the core actions of EMES can continue while ensuring that members are actively engaged and participate in the network. We look forward to 2014 with the firm determination to maintain our effort in contributing to social sciences via research and training and strengthening the growing community of social enterprise researchers around the world. 61

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