Ekintzailetza sozial kooperatiboa: KoopFabrika egitasmoaren kasua

Abstract

Social entrepreneurship has come into fashion in recent years. Just like with the concepts of social innovation, social economy and social business, one can observe different ways of understanding and practising social entrepreneurship. Although social entrepreneurship's dominant current was designed between business schools and the philanthropic sector in Anglo-Saxon countries, there is also another social entrepreneurship based on a different logic. This alternative entrepreneurship is based on the tradition of Basque social movement and cooperativism. As a name, the term Cooperative Social Entrepreneurship was suggested. This article analyses the foundation and main features of Cooperative Social Entrepreneurship. To this end, it provides the KoopFabrika project case study (Yin, 1994). KoopFabrika is a cooperative project whose purpose is to promote social entrepreneurship. This is a project conducted by the Lanki Institute of Mondragon Unibertsitatea, the Olatukoop network and the Gezki Institute of the University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea.