ABSTRACT

Corporate organisational constructs facilitating social enterprise have proliferated for the last decade across Europe. This article investigates this phenomenon, and provides an initial analytical framework through which the social enterprise company can be understood, both on its own terms and with respect to the traditional business organisation. The article begins by laying out policymakers' collective intentions for creating the social enterprise company. The discussion then turns to theorising the social enterprise company's organisational architecture. The social enterprise company is a hybrid organisational construct designed to generate social value. For this reason it operates according to the principle of publicness. The intention was also for the social enterprise company to be resource flexible and attract altruistic investors and managers. The article then further extends the theoretical discussion by mapping early stage and later stage investor involvement with reference to the current state of the impact investment landscape, and investigates how these considerations relate to the jurisdictions' isomorphic prevention mechanisms, which encourage impact fidelity in the context of a conversion or a winding up.

摘要

在过去的十年中，促进社会企业发展的企业组织结构在整个欧洲激增。本文对这种现象进行了调查，并提供了一个初始的分析框架，通过该框架，可以对社会企业公司本身或相对于传统商业组织进行理解。本文首先阐述了决策者创建社会企业公司的集体意图。然后，讨论转向理论化社会企业公司的组织架构。社会企业公司是一种旨在产生社会价值的混合组织架构。因此，它根据公开原则进行操作。这样做的目的还在于，社会企业公司必须具有资源灵活性，并吸引无私的投资者和管理人员。然后，本文通过参考影响投资格局的当前状态来绘制早期和后期阶段的投资者参与，进一步扩展了理论讨论，并调查了这些考虑因素与辖区的同构预防机制之间的关系，这些机制在背景下鼓励了影响保真度。转换或清盘。