Resumen de Emerging models of social enterprise in Eastern Asia: a cross-country analysis
Jacques Defourny, Shin-Yang Kim
This paper aims at deepening international comparisons of social enterprise through a twofold perspective. In a first stage indeed, we try to capture quite precisely convergences and divergences of social enterprise in several East Asian landscapes, namely in China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. For doing so, we will first analyse the socio-economic contexts, the key factors and interactions with Western experiences which led to the emergence of social enterprise in each country (section 1, 2 and 3). On such a basis, we describe the main existing categories of social enterprise from various points of view in order to identify a few possible cross-country “models” (section 4). We also try to locate those various categories or models in the whole economy, especially with respect to the other major economic actors (section 5). Finally, we address the question of the very specificities of social enterprise in East Asia by looking at major driving forces in a comparative perspective with Europe and North America (section 5).
