TY - JOUR
T1 - "The most supportive environment in the world"? Tracing the development of an institutional 'ecosystem' for social enterprise
AU - Roy, Michael
AU - McHugh, Neil Anthony
AU - Huckfield, Leslie
AU - Kay, Alan
AU - Donaldson, Cam
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PY - 2015/6
Y1 - 2015/6
N2 - While numerous accounts of policy frameworks associated with country-level support for social enterprise activity exist, explanations for when, why and how policy interventions in support of social enterprise have been adopted have been, to date, much more thin on the ground. This paper aims to contribute to addressing this perceived gap by presenting the case of Scotland, recently hailed by First Minister Alex Salmond as “the most supportive environment in the world for social enterprise.” Historical Institutionalism is used to explain how such a ‘supportive environment’ might have come about and, looking at, in turn, when, why and how the conditions for social enterprise in Scotland have developed, we attempt to contribute to the ongoing international debate concerning the importance of the policy environment to fostering the conditions for social enterprise activity not only to emerge, but to thrive.
AB - While numerous accounts of policy frameworks associated with country-level support for social enterprise activity exist, explanations for when, why and how policy interventions in support of social enterprise have been adopted have been, to date, much more thin on the ground. This paper aims to contribute to addressing this perceived gap by presenting the case of Scotland, recently hailed by First Minister Alex Salmond as “the most supportive environment in the world for social enterprise.” Historical Institutionalism is used to explain how such a ‘supportive environment’ might have come about and, looking at, in turn, when, why and how the conditions for social enterprise in Scotland have developed, we attempt to contribute to the ongoing international debate concerning the importance of the policy environment to fostering the conditions for social enterprise activity not only to emerge, but to thrive.
KW - social enterprise
KW - Scotland
KW - social entrepreneurship
KW - political devolution
KW - historical institutionalism
U2 - 10.1007/s11266-014-9459-9
DO - 10.1007/s11266-014-9459-9
M3 - Article
VL - 26
SP - 777
EP - 800
JO - Voluntas
JF - Voluntas
SN - 2179-3786
IS - 3
ER -