Sandra Ramos

Lille Catholic University · FGES

Social enterprises, as hybrid organizations, pursue a social mission by resorting to market mechanisms in achieving their organisational goals (Mair & Martí, 2006; Santos, 2012). Most social enterprises use commercial activities as a means of delivering the social mission to their beneficiaries. Therefore, the alignment of both commercial and socia...

This chapter investigates how a South African social enterprise aims to make a dent in the rampant unemployment problem plaguing South Africa. Through analyzing a unique single case study, we show how a social enterprise, well embedded in its environment, can make a difference. The findings suggest that through its dialogue with the job market, the...

Over the last decades, the dynamics of the incubation programs and its contribution to the enhancement of the entrepreneurial activities has appeared in the academic literature. Recently, acceleration programs also called as the new generation of incubation program (Pauwels, Clarysse, Wright, & Van Hove, 2016) has triggered sustainable echoes in di...

While our understanding of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship has moved forward considerably over the last couple of decades, much of this understanding is still based very much focused on western societies to the detriment of understanding this phenomenon in less developed countries. This is especially true with regard to social enterpr...

As a field of inquiry social enterprise seems to have gained momentum in the last decade or two. While the field has gained scholarly momentum, there is still limited knowledge of social enterprise models as they are emerging across the world. This is especially true with regard to social enterprise in sub-Sahara Africa, which, to present, still re...

In the recent years, Portuguese universities have diversified their strategies to promote entrepreneurial education among (under/post) graduates either through formal education or non-formal and informal activities. These activities are undertaken by different higher education stakeholders and key actors that may contribute to the construction of a...