Empower-SE COST Action International Research Workshop: Towards and enabling ecosystem for social enterprises

Abstract

The Research Workshop “Towards an enabling ecosystem for social enterprises”, organized within the framework of the COST Action “Empowering the next generation of social enterprise scholars” (Empower-SE) was held at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work in February 2020. The aim of the workshop was to facilitate a vivid dialogue between stakeholders and researchers on the complex topic of social enterprise development and scaling. This short report, included in the JEOD “Conference letter” section, briefly illustrates the presentations, which offered a complex image of country and regional variations of social enterprise ecosystems in Europe generated by the historical and cultural backgrounds, the degree of institutionalization and the specificity of the policy and political context for social enterprises.