What is the social and solidarity economy? A review of concepts

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No 2023/13, OECD Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Papers from OECD Publishing

Abstract: Produced as part of the OECD Global Action on Promoting Social and Solidarity Economy Ecosystems, funded by the European Union’s Foreign Partnership Instrument, this paper provides a framework to clarify the core notions of the social and solidarity economy, along with social economy, social enterprise, social innovation and other related notions. The objective is to explain what they are and understand how these notions have evolved in recent decades. It also aims to capture and document the great diversity within social and solidarity economy organisations in terms of purposes, legal entities, business models and practices to help better characterise the “population” of social and solidarity economy entities.

Keywords: conceptual framework; cooperative; local development; non profit; social and solidarity economy; social economy; social enterprise; social entrepreneurship; social innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L31 L33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-09-28
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