Join QUT’s Centre for Future Enterprise’s E-Future Enterprise Online Forum | 11am AEST, 6th November
Defining Social Enterprise: Explaining and Embracing, Diversity presented by Dr Craig Furneaux from ACPNS
Have an interest in social enterprise? This forum is for you!
Social enterprises are a type of organisation that is very hard to define. Most definitions of ‘social enterprise’ have at their core the trading of goods and / or services for the achievement of a social purpose, although various definitions include: “a range of organisational types that vary in their activities, size, legal structure, geographic scope, funding, motivations, degree of profit orientation, relationship with communities, ownership and culture” (Peattie and Morley 2008: 7). In their attempt to define social enterprise, Dart et al. (2010: 186) note that “criteria to distinguish social enterprise from other organizations were seemingly arbitrary, unstable, or unworkable”.
This forum, based on a paper by Dr Craig Furneaux, suggests that we let go of our definitional angst, and instead embrace the global diversity of social enterprise form and function, as a better way forward for the field.
The E-Future Enterprise Forum Series is hosted by the Centre for Future Enterprise (of which ACPNS is a part), showcasing the research within CFE. Held online every other Friday, 11am-11:45am, all QUT community members are welcome.
