Assessing the non-financial outcomes of social enterprises in Luxembourg
By addressing social issues, rather than maximizing profits, social enterprises are said to contribute to the well-being of societies. In this paper, we test whether social enterprises fulfil this expectation. The paper applies regression analysis to a unique dataset obtained by merging survey data...
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Type de support: | Électronique Article |
Langue: | Anglais |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2020
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Journal of business ethics
Année: 2020, Volume: 165, Numéro: 3, Pages: 425-451 |
Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Subjective well-being
B Social enterprises B Non-economic outcomes B Aufsatz in Zeitschrift |
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Résumé: | By addressing social issues, rather than maximizing profits, social enterprises are said to contribute to the well-being of societies. In this paper, we test whether social enterprises fulfil this expectation. The paper applies regression analysis to a unique dataset obtained by merging survey data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor with official statistics on social enterprises in Luxembourg. Results suggest that social enterprises contribute to subjective well-being, which is an encompassing measure of people’s satisfaction with their own life. We find that when the share of social enterprises in a city increases, the ill-being of poor and unemployed people declines. Therefore, policy makers who seek to increase the well-being of economically disadvantaged people could adopt policies to promote the creation of social enterprises. |
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ISSN: | 1573-0697 |
Contient: | Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10551-018-4086-9 |