In case it's of interest - sharing this recent paper on the 'dark sides' of social entrepreneurship, grappling with the fallout narratives positioning SE as always good + heroic. I met the lead author, Sophie Bacq, at #10EMESConf last month - she was the keynote speaker. doi.org/10.1007/s111...
I'm not attending #ARNOVA2025 this year, but I was just at #10EMESconf in Rotterdam & Utrecht. Lots of good discussion & debate about classifications & models in the EMES community. emes.net/events/confe...
A takeaway from my visit to the Netherlands (Rotterdam, Utrecht, Amsterdam) for #10EMESconf is that cyclists rule the road there, as they should. Another is that public transit buses can be fast if they have dedicated lanes. Experiencing both reminds me that other modes of urban living are possible.
She references Roussos & Malamidis' very interesting paper on social movements & the commons (2021).
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#10EMESconf closing plenary at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social: Donnatella Della Porta discusses her work on social movements & its implications for thinking about the social economy: relationships between markets welfare states, & civil society; commons & solidarities; crises & austerity.
Thinking about this while at #10EMESconf, & what happens when state (& nonprofit/community/third) sector fails millions of people whose needs are not met by existing markets. Jean-Luis Laville's historical look at associationism may also offer additional lessons.
Juliana Rodrigues speaking at a plenary at the 10th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise in Utrecht.
Juliana Rodrigues, EMES PhD student board rep, starts by remarking on her feelings of responsibility that set in while preparing for this plenary, situating her work on north(s)-south(s) dialogues with her dual PhD studies at universities in Finland & Brazil, & decoloniality as praxis. #10EMESconf
@igraywill.bsky.social is posting on the ground updates about his experience at the 10th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise in Rotterdam & Utrecht, where he & Professor James M. Mandiberg presented a working paper & are promoting their recent publication #10EMESconf
I bought a copy of Laville's book, "The Solidarity Economy," the other day & had a fascinating conversation with him about the history & origins of EMES, & his long standing interest in the relationships between economies & democracies. Really enjoying his plenary remarks. #10EMESconf
Laville speaks of his associationist approach to SE research, & activities emerging from communities excluded from mainstream political & economic activity, including in the US. #10EMESconf #ScalingThroughCommunities
Laville speaks against technocratic dimensions in social economy research (SE & SSE), anglocentric bias in the literature, & historical amnesia, drawing from Walter Benjamin's theses on history to move the discussion to experiences in the global south & their frequent invisibility. #10EMESconf
Jean-Louis Laville opens up the #10EMESconf afternoon plenary in Utrecht, focusing his remarks on EMES as a space for dialogues & exploring tensions between the SE sector & the importance of heterogeneity in this space. He looks back to a dialogue between Walter Lippmann & John Dewey on democracy.
Riding the bus in Utrecht as I get ready for part two of #10EMESconf is a pretty quick reminder that dedicated bus lanes with zero cars in them ought to be the default, not the exception, for urban public transit. Even better when they have their own through-line roads in and out of the city center.
Really loving the visualizations & diagrams for this presentation, which Violeta explainedwere generated using MaxQDA when I asked about them. Other commentators remark that there are several papers that can come out of this very rich & interesting project.
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#10EMESconf afternoon session: S. Violeta Bouzada Novoa shares her ongoing doctoral research & systematic literature review on social enterprises & circular economies.
Discussion on historicizing collectives & co-ops at #10EMESconf, and thinking forward about the digital & AI, I think of the upcoming conference @pcc-global.bsky.social conference in Istanbul on #CooperativeAI:
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Prof Tina de Moor at @rsmerasmus.bsky.social discussing historical perspectives on citizen collectives, long views of the commons & Ostrom, & why orgs become types. Referenced her 2021 article on the "three waves of cooperation"
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I just tuned into this conversation last week, & the data power that different digital & social media platforms based on what & how data access is governed & commercialized by big tech.
Much of the #10EMESConf discourse is on LinkedIn, & that isn't getting captured by @altmetric.com.
Lots of overlap with this talk at #10EMESconf & #TICTeC, which I attended this summer in Mechelen. Overlaps & disconnects been social enterprises & citizen collectives. #civictech #pitech
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Now learning about Collectieve Kracht, a digital platform for collective citizen power & #citizenscience
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Cover of 10th EMES Conference Program
In a session on commons creation: urban heat islands adaptation via digital twins & living labs, a citizen science platform, & visualizing the citizen collective movement. Some overlaps w/ @cunypitlab.bsky.social & @beta.nyc's PIT Pop-up (www.nycpitpopup.org) & @metagov.bsky.social
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Diagram from https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.70001
First audience question: who gets to define social enterpreneurship, & what it means in different contexts. Touches on questions "what is social?" & "based in what values?"
Diagram from another recent paper of Bacq's on SE research: doi.org/10.1111/ijmr...
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CIVIC WEALTH CREATION: BYPASSING MONOPOLIES THROUGH COLLECTIVE ACTION G. T. LUMPKIN University of Tennessee University of Oklahoma EDUARDO MEL ENDEZ University of Oklahoma SOPHIE BACQ IMD Business School The market power of monopolies can severely restrict citizens’ freedom of choice. In the case of utilities, often portrayed as natural monopolies, such power may result in high prices and unreliable or absent services, especially in marginalized communities such as low-income neighborhoods or remote rural villages. While government regulation has been the traditional remedy to curb natural monopolies’ power, in this paper, we address a different solution: monopoly bypassing through collective action. We present two types of monopoly bypassing—partial and complete—through the lens of civic wealth creation (CWC): the generation of social, economic, and communal endowments that benefit communities. Through our analysis of three water and sanitation utility services cases, we demonstrate howCWC is used to catalyze the collective action of engaged citizens to effectively bypass monopoly power. The cases highlight the three stakeholder categories involved in CWC initiatives—communities, enterprises, and regimes of support—and illustrate how they act collectively to provide credible market-based solutions.
Dr. Bacq's keynote is an extended overview of her work on civic wealth creation & regimes of support, starting from her many projects on social entrepreneurship. See this more recent paper:
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Interesting fact that just came up in Sophie Bacq's opening keynote in the morning ceremonies of #10EMESconf at @rsmerasmus.bsky.social:
the social economy's global revenue approximately $2 trillion
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Neat! The full collection of the Social Work Innovation Network special issue of Human Service Organizations that I was a guest editor for is now out: www.tandfonline.com/toc/wasw21/4...
Going to enjoy chatting about this over the next few days at #10EMESConf.
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#EMES International Research Network friends & colleagues - who's on Bluesky? @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social
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It promises to be an inspiring and fruitful opportunity for collaboration and knowledge exchange in the realm of #socialenterprise and the #culture and #arts
We look forward to seeing you there 🤩🌳
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We are excited to announce that the #EMCCINNO project will be part of the #10EMESconf 😍💥
This event will be the perfect setting to explore key topics in which #EMCCINNO project is rooted: social enterprise #SE and the cultural and creative sectors #CCS
➡️ www.emccinno.eu?p=19371
