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Legal Forms and Organizational Structures

A paper analyzing the wide range of legal and organizational structures used by social enterprises worldwide.

Commissioned by the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University.

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Social Enterprise: A Typology of the Field Contextualized in Latin America

This piece of research provided the foundation for the seminal Social Enterprise Typology published in 2004, and book chapter, "Social Enterprise Models and Their Mission Relationships," in Social Entrepreneurship: New Paradigms of Sustainable Social Change, Oxford University Press 2006.

"Social Enterprise: A Typology of the Field Contextualized in Latin America" is a monograph written to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Inter-American Development Bank's Social Entrepreneurship Program (SEP) in 2003. The purpose of this publication is to distill the concepts, trends, and best practices in social enterprise development developed through the Inter-American Development Bank's experiences over the past 25 years into models and guidelines for building new partnerships that will revolutionize the field in the decade to come. The intent is to promote a theory-from-practice approach linked to larger bodies of existing research in order to formulate a conceptual framework and typology for social enterprises that will inspire innovation and greater investment in social enterprise among economic development organizations around the globe.

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