She references Roussos & Malamidis' very interesting paper on social movements & the commons (2021).

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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

#10EMES A packed room for the Civic Values and Indirect Impact session. First session: "Civic wealth creation: Scale development and validation" with Sophie Bacq & Georgios Polychronopoulos. Lots of deep questions about measurement & model creation.

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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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Now learning about Collectieve Kracht, a digital platform for collective citizen power & #citizenscience

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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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10th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise – EMES

#EMES International Research Network friends & colleagues - who's on Bluesky? @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social

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