Professor Marthe Nyssens
Universities & Institutions
- UC Louvain
- EMES
Expertise & Research
- Conceptual approaches to the third sector
- Social economy
- Social enterprises
- Work integration and care
- Public policy
Marthe Nyssens is a Full professor at the Department of Economics of the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium,where she is the president of a research center ‘Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires Travail, Etat, Société (CIRTES). She is a founding member of the EMES European Research Network.
She holds a Master in economics (University of California at San Diego),) and a Ph.D. in economics (University of Louvain). Her work focuses on conceptual approaches to the third sector (associations, cooperatives, social enterprises), both in developed and developing countries (West Africa and Latin America), as well as on the links between third sector organisations and public policies. Her research deals with socioeconomic logics of “not-for-profit organizations”. She analyses the articulations of these organizations with public policies, the market and the civil society.
Her recent work focuses on the emergence of different social enterprise models in an international comparative perspective as well as the role of social enterprise in the field of work integration and care. These research projects have been developed in partnership with socioeconomic actors (third sector organisations, public bodies…) and in collaboration with the national and international scientific community.
In addition to numerous articles in academic journals and chapters in books, she has authored or (co-)edited books among which Social Enterprise (Routledge, 2006 also in Korean), and The Worldwide Making of the Social Economy: Innovations and Changes (Acco, Leuven, 2009).
| 1985 | Candidature en sciences économiques | Fac Universitaires Notre Dame de la Paix à Namur |
| 1987 | Licenciée en sciences économiques | Université catholique de Louvain |
| 1988 | Master of Arts in Economics | University of California at San Diego |
| 1994 | Docteur en sciences économiques | Université catholique de Louvain |
See a selection of work by this Author
Social Enterprise in Western Europe
Details Year: 2021 Published in: Routledge Cited as: Defourny, J. and Nyssens, M., (2021). Social Enterprise in Western Europe. Routledge. Subject Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences Abstract In the last two decades, the quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise has been a central issue in a [...]
Proceedings. Social Enterprise in Social and Health Services
Details Year: 2021 Published in: Routledge Cited as: Defourny, J. and Nyssens, M., (2021). Social Enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe. Routledge. Subject Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences Abstract n the last two decades, the quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise has been a central issue [...]
Stakeholder Brief #7 | Diversity of social enterprise models: new dynamics at the heart and on the fringes of the social and solidarity economy
Details Year: 2021 Published in: Routledge Cited as: Defourny, J. & Nyssens, M. (eds) (2021) Social Enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe: Theory, Models and Practice, Routledge, New York & London. Subject Diversity of social enterprise models: new dynamics at the heart and on the fringes of the social and solidarity economy. Abstract In the last [...]
Stakeholder Brief #8 | La diversité des modèles d’entreprises sociales: nouvelles dynamiques au cœur et aux confins de l’économie sociale et solidaire
Details Year: 2021 Published in: Social Enterprise in Western Europe: Theory, Models and Practice Cited as: Defourny, J. & Nyssens, M. (eds) (2021) Social Enterprise in Western Europe: Theory, Models and Practice, Routledge, New York & London. Subject Stakeholder Brief #8 | La diversité des modèles d’entreprises sociales: nouvelles dynamiques au cœur et aux confins de [...]
Fundamentals for an International Typology of Social Enterprise Models
Details Year: 2016 Published in: ICSEM Working Papers Cited as: Defourny, J. & Nyssens, M. (2016) “Fundamentals for an International Typology of Social Enterprise Models“, No. 33. Subject Fundamentals for an International Typology of Social Enterprise Models Abstract We do argue here that the SE field will benefit much more in the future from linking conceptualization [...]
Social Enterprise in Western Europe: Theory, Models and Practice
Details Year: 2021 Published in: EMES Cited as: Defourny, J., & Nyssens, M. (2021). Social enterprise in Western Europe: Theory, models and practice (p. 368). Taylor & Francis. Abstract In the last two decades, the quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise has been a central issue in a great number of publications. The main [...]
Social Enterprise in Latin America: Theory, Models and Practice
Details Year: 2019 Published in: EMES Cited as: Defourny, J., & Nyssens, M. (2021). Social enterprise in Western Europe: Theory, models and practice (p. 368). Taylor & Francis. Abstract In the absence of a widely accepted and common definition of social enterprise (SE), a large research project, the "International Comparative Social Enterprise Models" (ICSEM) Project, was carried [...]
Social Enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe: Theory, Models and Practice
Details Year: 2021 Published in: EMES Cited as: Defourny, J., & Nyssens, M. (2021). Social enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe: Theory, models and practice. Taylor & Francis. Abstract In the last two decades, the quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise has been a central issue in a great number of publications. The [...]