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Social Enterprise
What lies behind the label?
Simon Teasdale and Fergus Lyon
Social Enterprise
• ‘A social enterprise is a business with primarily social objectives, whose surpluses are principally reinvested for that purpose in the business or in the community, rather than being driven by the need to maximise profits for shareholders’ (DTI, 2002).
Making sense of social enterprise discourses
Collective
Hierarchical
Economic Social
Co-opsCommunityEnterprise
SocialBusiness
Earnedincome
Phenomenal growth in the UK?
2003 2004 2005 2008 2009 20100
50000
100000
150000
200000
250000
Number of social enterprises according to gov-ernment sponsored surveys
No of social enterprises
Explaining the ‘phenomenal growth’ of social enterprise
Collective
Hierarchical
Economic SocialECOTEC, 2003:
5,300 social enterprises
Explaining the ‘phenomenal growth’ of social enterprise
Collective
Hierarchical
Economic SocialIFF Research, 2005:15,000 social enterprises
Explaining the ‘phenomenal growth’ of social enterprise
Collective
Hierarchical
Economic Social
ASBS Surveys, 2005-2008:
62,000 social enterprises
ASBS Surveys, 2005-2008
all social enterprises:220,000
Explaining the ‘phenomenal growth’ of social enterprise
Collective
Hierarchical
Economic Social
Explaining the ‘phenomenal growth’ of social enterprise
Collective
Hierarchical
Economic SocialNSTSO, 2008-09:
8,507 social enterprises
Policy confusion
• Social Enterprise Mark• Social enterprise finance• Social Enterprise Investment Fund• Public Services (Social Enterprise and Social
Value) Bill
Practitioner confusion
• Social enterprise as outsiders• Social enterprise as missing link• Social enterprise as panacea
Policy opportunitiesSocial enterprises demonstrate ‘that social and environmental responsibility can be combined with financial success. They are innovative; entrepreneurial; concerned with aligning the needs of the individual with those of society; and social justice is their guiding principle. They offer joined-up, personalised services by...making the connections for service users...enabling users to make informed choices. They enable access to public services by...taking the service to the citizen, empowering dispersed communities to work together. They improve outcomes for those “hardest to help” by...developing innovative solutions...sharing the problem and the solution. They influence individual choices by...using role models within the community...giving people a stake in protecting their future.’
Practitioner opportunities
Collective
Hierarchical
Economic SocialGlobal
Theatre Productions
Local Arts
National Arts Refugee Support Network
Community Group Network
Conclusions• Social enterprise means different things to different people
across different contexts and at different points in time.
• Its contested nature leads to wide variation in estimating the
number of social enterprises, and to policy confusion.
• This conceptual confusion provides opportunities for
organisations and policy makers to present strategic impressions
to different audiences to achieve different goals.
• So where next for social enterprise under the coalition
government?
Social enterprise in the coalition• Any willing provider• Payment by results• Right to bid to run local services• Public sector employee spin outs • Train community organisers• Big Society Bank• A focus on scaling up existing activity• Where will support come from?
Where might growth come from?• Encouraging new start ups• Movement from the voluntary sector• Growth of existing enterprises• Community Asset Transfer• Transfers from public sector• But....– Who wants to grow ?– Who are the social entrepreneurs?– How is innovation encouraged?
Scale and control
A - Growth within the organisation
Increasing potential scale of impact of innovations
Decreasing control over how innovations are implemented
B- Scaling through franchises and licensing
C- Open access sharing and disseminating good practice
Spin outs and social enterprise• Types of spin outs and motivations to leave
the public sector• Are they innovative?• What do different people mean by
innovation?• What are the processes of innovation? • How are they diversifying?• How are they growing or not growing?• How are they assessing their social impact?
Social Enterprise Finance• Who is going for loan finance?• What makes a minority of SEs able to seek out
and use development finance – local disembedding? – New generation of entrepreneurs?
• How best to support investment intermediaries? • Can new forms of funding make a significant
difference – ‘crowdfunding’, social impact bonds? • How can investors judge social impact?
Social impact
• Why is there interest in social impact ?• How is social impact measurement being
used?• Is it for learning or for marketing? • What is being measured?• How to research wellbeing?• How are organisations scaling up their social
impact?
For discussion• Does it matter that there is no clear definition
of social enterprise?• Where is growth coming from, and is it always
desirable?• How will coalition policies on spin-outs shape
the social enterprise sector?• What information do social investors require?• Will social enterprises measure their impact
and can we trust the results?