Social Enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe

Jacques Defourny is Professor Emeritus at the Centre for Social Economy, HEC Management School, University of Liege, Belgium. He was a founder and the first President of the EMES International Research Network.Marthe Nyssens is President of the EMES International Research Network and Professor and Pro-Rector "Society and Transition", UCLouvain, Belgium.

• Part I: National Overviews of Social Enterprise. 1. Social Enterprises in Bulgaria: Historical and Institutional Perspective Tsvetelina Marinova and Elisabeth Yoneva. 2. Social Enterprise in Croatia: Charting New Territories Davorka Vidović and Danijel Baturina. 3. Social Enterprise in the Czech Republic: Heritage and New Developments Marie Dohnalová, Durmish Guri, Jaroslava Hrabětová, Kateřina Legnerová and Věnceslava Šlechtová. 4. The Social Enterprise Phenomenon in the Georgian Context Maya Giorbelidze. 5. Social Enterprise in Hungary: Concepts, Models and Institutions Éva G. Fekete, László Hubai, Julianna Kiss and Melinda Mihály. 6. Challenges for Social Enterprises in Latvia Henrijs Kalkis, Lolita Vilka, Lāsma Līcīte-Ķurbe, Ilze Trapenciere and Marta Urbāne. 7. Social Enterprises in Lithuania: Historical Roots and Current Trends Audronė Urmanavičienė, Eglė Butkevičienė, Philipp Erpf and Agota Giedrė Raišienė. 8. Social Enterprise in Poland: Institutional and Historical Context Anna Ciepielewska-Kowalik and Marzena Starnawska, in collaboration with Aleksandra Szymańska and Bartosz Pieliński. 9. Institutionalisation of Social Enterprise in Romania: Historical Milestones and SE Models Development Mihaela Lambru and Claudia Petrescu. 10. Social Enterprise in Russia: Developing Social Entrepreneurship Models in the Russian Legal and Socio-economic Context Yury Blagov and Yulia Aray. 11. The Landscape of Social Enterprise in the Slovak Republic Zuzana Polačková. Part II: Comparative Analyses and Perspectives. 12. The Influence of Historical and Institutional Legacies on Present-day Social Enterprises in CEE Countries: Lessons from Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Croatia Anna Ciepielewska-Kowalik, Davorka Vidović, Julianna Kiss, László Hubai, Kateřina Legnerová and Marie Dohnalová. 13. The Role of External Financing in the Development of Social Entrepreneurship in CEE Countries Danijel Baturina, Melinda Mihály, Erila Haska, Anna Ciepielewska-Kowalik, Julianna Kiss, Ariola Agolli, Marija Bashevska, Jana Korunovska Srbijanko, Dina Rakin and Vladimir Radojičić. 14. Endogenous vs. Exogenous Drivers in the Development of a Social Enterprise Sector Slobodan Cvejic, Konstantina Zoehrer and Vardan Urutyan. 15. Social Enterprises in the Rural Areas: A Comparative Study of the Baltic States Roger Evans, Mervi Raudsaar, Lāsma Līcīte-Ķurbe, Eglė Butkevičienė, Philipp Erpf, Audrone Urmanavičienė, and Agota Giedrė Raišienė. 16. Testing the Relevance of Major Social Enterprise Models in Central and Eastern Europe Jacques Defourny, Marthe Nyssens and Olivier Brolis