186 papers presented | 64 sessions | 7 panel sessions | 52 parallel sessions | 5 poster sessions

Helsinki (Finland)

Building a scientific field to foster social enterprise eco-system

Conference rationale

In the midst of what some consider the aftermath of the global financial and economic crisis, social enterprises continue to struggle with changing conditions that transform their role and position in society. In addition to growing social challenges and inequalities both in urban and rural areas, the need to develop key industries for ecological transition, or the challenge to provide opportunities for increasingly disadvantaged groups constitute the playing field for social enterprises today. Social enterprises are developing in a variety of fields (social services, health, education, culture, environment, finance, etc.) and their relevance continues to increase.

This conference provided a forum for truly international and interdisciplinary academic discussions about social enterprise, giving the floor to a variety of scientific approaches (non-profit sector, cooperatives, social economy, solidarity economy and civil society) as well as for emerging research communities (social innovation, social entrepreneurship, social investment, venture philanthropy, hybrid organisations, etc.).

CONFERENCE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

The conference co-chairs were Marthe Nyssens (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium) and Pekka Pättiniemi (FinSERN, Finland). They were supported by the members of the Scientific Committee:

• Carlo Borzaga (University of Trento/EURICSE, Italy)
• Jo Barraket (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
• Taco Brandsen (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
• Kate Cooney (Yale University, US)
• Jacques Defourny (HEC-University of Liege, Belgium)
• Giulio Ecchia (University of Bologna, Italy)
• Bernard Enjolras (Institute for Social Research, Norway)
• Sílvia Ferreira (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
• Luiz Ignacio Gaiger (UNISINOS, Brazil)
• Helen Haugh (University of Cambridge, UK)
• Lars Hulgård (Roskilde University, Denmark)
• Yu-Yuan Kuan (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)
• Jean-Louis Laville (CNAM/LISE, France)
• Carmen Marcuello (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
• P. K. Shajahan (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India)
• Mary O’Shaughnessy (University College Cork, Ireland)
• Roger Spear (Open University, UK/Roskilde University, Denmark)
• Victor Pestoff (Ersta Sköndal Högskola, Sweden)
• Annette Zimmer (University of Münster, Germany)