We are very happy to announce that, thanks to the support of the Chaire Économie Sociale et Solidaire of Le Mans University (France), the book Social Enterprise in Asia, edited by long-standing EMES members Eric Bidet and Jacques Defourny,  is now available in Open...

Continuing with celebrating the #20EMES anniversary,  we keep writing the ongoing story of the contribution of the thousands of researchers, policymakers, practitioners and the wide public who have been accompanying us. In that spirit, we prepared various interviews...

The EMES co-founder (1996-2001) and first president of the Network for two successive terms (2002-2010), Jacques Defourny, will be retiring from his university teaching responsibilities this academic year. Professor of third-sector economics at HEC-University of...

We are delighted to announce that the book Social Enterprise in Latin America is now available in Open Access! In the last two decades, the quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise (SE) has been a central issue in a great number of publications. The...

This April, EMES is celebrating its 20th anniversary. That is two decades full of research and activities that have consolidated a worldwide research community! Therefore, our heartfelt appreciation goes to all of you who have been and continue to be there. We feel it...