Placing Irish social enterprise ecosystem within the wider European landscape

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorO'Shaughnessy, Maryen
dc.contributor.authorOlmedo, Lucasen
dc.date.accessioned2025-12-09T15:24:55Z
dc.date.available2025-12-09T15:24:55Z
dc.date.issued2023-07-01en
dc.description.abstractThe launch in 2019 of Ireland’s first National Social Enterprise Policy has meant a significant milestone for the institutitonalisation of social enterprise within the country. However, this milestone needs to be placed within a wider framework which encompasses the Irish social enterprise ecosystem and the European landscape of social enterprises. This paper explores different elements of the Irish social enterprise ecosystem, including its policy context, definition adopted and legal forms. Moreover, it explores the private recognition through certification and marks, the development of support and advocacy networks and organisations, academia and research, and funding/financing mechanisms. These elements are contrasted with the situation in other European countries to provide a contextualized picture of the Irish social enterprise sector. The paper concludes that Ireland’s social enterprise ecosystem presents some specificities, such as the CLG as a dominant legal form and the predominance of the WISE model, but generally aligns with wider social enterprises trends at European level.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationO'Shaughnessy, M. and Olmedo, L. (2023) 'Placing Irish social enterprise ecosystem within the wider European landscape', The Irish Journal of Management, 42(1), pp. 3-15. https://doi.org/10.2478/ijm-2023-0007en
dc.identifier.doi10.2478/ijm-2023-0007en
dc.identifier.endpage15en
dc.identifier.issn2451-2834en
dc.identifier.issued1en
dc.identifier.journaltitleThe Irish Journal of Managementen
dc.identifier.startpage3en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/18340
dc.identifier.volume42en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherWalter de Gruyter GmbHen
dc.rights© 2023, Mary O'Shaughnessy and Lucas Olmedo. Published by Irish Academy of Management. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectSocial enterprise ecosystemen
dc.subjectSocial enterprise policyen
dc.subjectEuropeen
dc.subjectIrelanden
dc.subject~Food Business and Development - Journal Articles~en
dc.subject~Cork University Business School - Journal Articles~en
dc.titlePlacing Irish social enterprise ecosystem within the wider European landscapeen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
dc.typejournal-articleen
Files
Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
Placing_Irish_Social_Enterprise_Ecosystem_within_the_wider_European_Landscape.pdf
Size:
430.97 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Published Version
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
license.txt
Size:
2.71 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:
Download
Collections
Cork University Business School