August 5, 2026

The Size of Impact: European Impact Investing Market Sizing Exercise

Locations: Europe, United Kingdom

Themes: Impact Measurement & Management, Social Finance, Spotting Trends

Target Group: Academics, Investor, Policy makers, Social Ent. Support Orgs, Social Enterprises

EU funded: Yes

Open Access: Yes

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August 3, 2026

Getting Started with Social Impact Measurement (guide and toolkit)

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: Impact Measurement & Management

Target Group: Social Ent. Support Orgs, Social Enterprises

EU funded: No

Open Access: Yes

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August 3, 2026

SROI Toolkit: A Guide to Implementing Social Return on Investment

Author: Emma McBurney, Tim Walker, Gemma Finnegan

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: Impact Measurement & Management, Social Enterprise Support, Social Finance

Target Group: Social Ent. Support Orgs, Social Enterprises

EU funded: No

Open Access: Yes

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July 18, 2025

Co-creating or Confounding? Hybrid Legitimacy Evaluation of Circular Business Models in the U.K. Plastics Sector

Author: Maria Sharmina, Adeyemi Adebowale Adelekan

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: Research

Target Group: All

EU funded: No

Open Access: Yes

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July 18, 2025

Collaborative digitally-enabled business models for a circular economy: Sustaining, managing and protecting value in the UK plastics sector

Author: Maria Sharmina, Adeyemi Adebowale Adelekan

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: Research

Target Group: All

EU funded: No

Open Access: Yes

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June 24, 2025

Towards social innovation strategy: An analysis of UK social enterprises

Author: Maria L. Granados, Iraci de Souza João-Roland

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: Policy Statements, Social Enterprise Support

Target Group: All

EU funded: No

Open Access: No

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December 9, 2024

Open Social Innovation: Knowledge commons and the openness spectrum in Scottish social enterprise

Author: Lauren Tuckerman, Julie Thomson, Geoff Whittam

Locations: Bolivia, Western Europe, United Kingdom

Themes: Research

Target Group: All

EU funded: Yes

Open Access: Yes

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December 9, 2024

To profit or not to profit? That is the wrong question

Author: Maureen McCulloch, Rory Ridley Duff

Locations: Bolivia, Western Europe, United Kingdom

Themes: Research

Target Group: All

EU funded: Yes

Open Access: Yes

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December 6, 2024

Participatory local governance and social enterprise: Exploring the links between social entrepreneurial behaviour and democratic resource allocation through participatory budgeting

Author: Matthew MacDonald, Jez Hall

Locations: Bolivia, Western Europe, United Kingdom

Themes: Research

Target Group: All

EU funded: Yes

Open Access: Yes

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December 6, 2024

Kite-marks, standards and privileged legal structures; artefacts of constraint disciplining structure choices

Author: Jules O’dor

Locations: Bolivia, Western Europe, United Kingdom

Themes: Research

Target Group: All

EU funded: Yes

Open Access: Yes

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December 5, 2024

Locally identified solutions and practices: a critical realist investigation into the geographies of social innovation in the context of neighbourhood policing

Author: Timothy Peter Curtis

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: Research

Target Group: All

EU funded: Yes

Open Access: Yes

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December 4, 2024

A Typology of Social Enterprise “Traditions”

Author: Mike Gordon

Locations: Bolivia, Western Europe, United Kingdom

Themes: Social Ecosystems, Research

Target Group: All

EU funded: No

Open Access: Yes

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January 4, 2024

Social Enterprise in the United Kingdom: Models and Trajectories

Author: Anna KOPEC©, Mike AIKEN, Richard HAZENBERG, Fergus LYON¨, Roger SPEAR, Mike Bull, Simon Teasdale

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: Research

Target Group: All

EU funded: No

Open Access: Yes

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March 21, 2023

Sustainable Procurement Duty - Impact and Value Analysis: Main Report

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: Research

Target Group: All

Open Access: Yes

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March 14, 2023

From Charity to Social Enterprise: The Marketization of Social Care

Author: Geoffrey Whittam, David Moyes, Christine Reilly, Fiona Henderson

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: Research

Target Group: All

Open Access: No

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March 8, 2023

Three Forms – One Outcome: The Role of Social Capital in the Early Stages of the Entrepreneurial Process Within a Region With Traditionally Low Business Start-Ups

Author: Paul Ferri, Geoff Whittam, David Moyes

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: Research, Social Finance

Target Group: All

Open Access: Yes

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March 8, 2023

The Stairway to Heaven? The Effective Use of Social Capital in New Venture Creation for a Rural Business

Author: Paul Ferri, Geoff Whittam, David Moyes, Fiona Henderson

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: Research, Social Finance

Target Group: All

Open Access: Yes

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February 24, 2023

Guide to Using the Social Value Model

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: Social Procurement, Public Procurement

Target Group: All

Open Access: Yes

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June 21, 2021

Ending business-non-profit partnerships: The spinout of social enterprises

Locations: Switzerland, United Kingdom

Themes: Research

Target Group: Academics, All

Open Access: No

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June 21, 2021

Rurality and social innovation processes and outcomes: A realist evaluation of rural social

Author: Artur Steiner

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: Research

Target Group: Academics, All

EU funded: No

Open Access: Yes

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July 9, 2020

Running wild with metaphors: rethinking the evolution of social enterprise.

Author: Ken Peattie

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: Research

Target Group: Academics, All

Open Access: No

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July 2, 2020

Sustainability in social enterprise: hybrid organizing in public services

Author: Alex Gillett, Bob Doherty, Madeline Powell

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: Research

Target Group: All

Open Access: No

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June 22, 2020

Wrestling with wicked problems? The value of business plan competitions to social entrepreneurship education

Author: Michael James Roy, Artur Steiner, Simon Teasdale

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: Research

Target Group: All

EU funded: No

Open Access: No

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June 1, 2020

Can public venture capital support sustainability in the social economy? Evidence from a social innovation fund.

Author: Francesca Caló, Artur Steiner, Simon Teasdale

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: Research

Target Group: All

EU funded: Yes

Open Access: Yes

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May 8, 2020

From charity to social enterprise: the marketization of social care

Author: Geoffrey Whittam, David Moyes, Christine Reilly, Fiona Henderson

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: Research

Target Group: All

Open Access: No

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March 27, 2020

The Social enterprise company in Europe: policy, theory and isomorphism.

Author: Joseph Liptrap

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: Research

Target Group: All

Open Access: No

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March 19, 2020

Everyone a Changemaker? Exploring the Moral Underpinnings of Social Innovation Discourse Through Real Utopias

Author: Emmanuel B. Raufflet, Stefanie Mauksch, Rafael Ziegler, Pascal Dey, Michael James Roy, Simon Teasdale

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: Research

Target Group: All

Open Access: No

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March 1, 2020

The Transformation from Traditional Nonprofit Organizations to Social Enterprises: An Institutional Entrepreneurship Perspective

Author: Gordon Liu, Wai Wai Joyce Ko

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: EU Policy, Research

Target Group: All

EU funded: No

Open Access: Yes

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November 28, 2019

Social enterprise, social innovation and self-directed care: lessons from Scotland

Author: Geoff Whittam, Kelly Hall, Fiona Henderson

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: Research

Target Group: All

Open Access: No

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October 9, 2019

Social enterprises’ impact on older people’s health and wellbeing: exploring Scottish experiences

Author: Fiona Henderson, Micaela Mazzei, Artur Steiner

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: Research

Target Group: All

EU funded: No

Open Access: Yes

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August 1, 2019

Unlocking the potential of rural social enterprise

Author: Artur Steiner, Simon Teasdale

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: Research

Target Group: All

EU funded: No

Open Access: Yes

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July 31, 2019

The Contribution of the Social Enterprise Sector to the UK Economy

Author: Sally Kah

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: Research

Target Group: All

Open Access: Yes

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July 12, 2019

COOL Music: a ‘bottom-up’ music intervention for hard-to-reach young people in Scotland

Author: Francesca Caló, Artur Steiner, Simon Teasdale

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: Research

Target Group: All

EU funded: Yes

Open Access: Yes

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June 20, 2019

Pathways to Sustainability in Social and Solidarity Economy Organisations: Lessons Learned from Local Change Processes towards the Sustainable Development Goals

Author: Christophe Place, Seònaid Lafferty

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: Get started!

Target Group: Civil Society Organizations, Corporate Innovators, NGO, Social Ent. Support Orgs, Social Enterprises

EU funded: No

Open Access: Yes

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February 4, 2019

Empowering communities? Exploring roles in facilitated social enterprise

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: Research

Target Group: All

Open Access: No

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January 29, 2019

Filling a void? The role of social enterprise in addressing social isolation and loneliness in rural communities

Author: Rachel Baker, Micaela Mazzei, Artur Steiner

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: Research

Target Group: All

Open Access: Yes

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January 7, 2019

Exploring the contribution of social enterprise to health and social care: A realist evaluation

Author: Francesca Caló, Cam Donaldson, Simone Baglioni, Michael James Roy, Simon Teasdale

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: Research

Target Group: All

Open Access: Yes

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January 1, 2019

Capitalism in crisis? Transforming our economy for people and planet

Author: Social Enterprise UK

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: Spotting Trends

Target Group: All

EU funded: No

Open Access: Yes

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November 5, 2018

Insights from a systematic review of literature on social enterprise and networks.

Author: Zaheer Khan, David Littlewood

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: Research

Target Group: All

Open Access: Yes

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May 8, 2018

Reconceptualising social enterprise in the UK through an appreciation of legal identities

Author: Mike Bull

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: Research

Target Group: All

Open Access: No

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February 8, 2018

Social innovation, social enterprise, and local public services: Undertaking transformation?

Author: Stephen Sinclair

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: Research

Target Group: All

Open Access: No

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February 2, 2018

Differentiating the effect of social enterprise activities on health

Author: Cam Donaldson, Bobby Macaulay, Micaela Mazzei, Michael James Roy, Simon Teasdale

Locations: United Kingdom

Themes: Research

Target Group: All

Open Access: Yes

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