Social Enterprise in Asia

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Social Enterprise in AsiaTheory, Models and Practice\nAuthor(s): Eric Bidet, Jacques Defourny\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367675745, 978-0367675745\nSynopsis\nIn the absence of a widely accepted and common definition of social enterprise (SE), a large research project, the \""International Comparative Social Enterprise Models\"" (ICSEM) Project, was carried out over a five-year period; it involved more than 200 researchers from 55 countries and relied on bottom-up approaches to capture the SE phenomenon. This strategy made it possible to take into account and give legitimacy to locally embedded approaches, thus resulting in an analysis encompassing a wide diversity of social enterprises, while simultaneously allowing for the identification of major SE models to delineate the field on common grounds at the international level.\n\nThese SE models reveal or confirm an overall trend towards new ways of sharing th.