...Garazi Yurrebaso; Igone Arostegui; Maria Villaescusa Purpose The transition of people to the ordinary market after completing the due process of a work integration social enterprise is a critical moment that exposes their vulnerability. This paper aims to present the results of an intervention...

...Sarah Barton; Hayley Porter; Susanne Murphy; Rosemary Lysaght Purpose Social enterprise has the potential to serve as a mechanism of social and economic opportunity for persons experiencing homelessness. This paper aims to identify potential outcomes of work integration social enterprises (WISEs...

...Sarah J. Woodside Purpose Work integration social enterprises (WISEs) address the chronic unemployment of disadvantaged populations. However, WISEs face challenges, in part, because they embody both social mission and market logics which potentially contradict one another. The purpose...

... in each type so as to present a broad array of developmental histories. Findings This paper identified four types of social enterprises: work integration social enterprises; social service provision social enterprises; regional regeneration social enterprises; and alter-economy social enterprises...

... purpose enterprise Work integration Around the world, social purpose enterprises (known also as social purpose businesses, social enterprises, social firms, affirmative businesses, work integration social enterprises) have risen in recent years in numbers and in profile (Defourny and Nyssens...

...Roger Spear; Kate Cooney Purpose Work integration social enterprises (WISEs) create jobs through business ventures that function as locations for training and employment of disadvantaged workers. A key challenge for US WISEs is that the businesses that are easiest to launch and best suited...