Marthe Nyssens
Biographic Data
| ID | 699492 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marthe Nyssens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marthe |
| FAMILY NAME | Nyssens |
| SIGNATURE | NYSSENS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | UCLouvain |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9138-8941 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
“What is our actual impact?”: A mixed-method assessment of a Belgian shelter for homeless men
The diversity of social enterprise models: New dynamics at the heart and on the borders of the social economy
Le Projet de recherche ICSEM (« International Comparative Social Enterprise Model »), mené de 2013 à 2019, a eu pour objectif d’identifier et de comparer les modèles d’entreprises sociales à travers le monde. Sur la base d’un cadre analytique original, quatre modèles principaux d’entreprise sociale ont été iden- tifiés puis ont été confortés par une base de données ICSEM constituée grâce à une enquête dans 43 pays. Il apparaît ainsi que l’existen…
Social Enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe: Theory, Models and Practice
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 objective of the ICSEM Project (on which this book is based) was to show that the social enterprise field would benefit much more from linking conceptualisation efforts to the huge diversity of social enterprises than from an additional and ambitious attempt at providing an encompassing defin…
Social Enterprise in Western Europe: Theory, Models and Practice
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 objective of the ICSEM Project on which this book is based was to show that the social enterprise field would benefit much more from linking conceptualisation efforts to the huge diversity of social enterprises than from an additional and ambitious attempt at providing an encompassing definit…
Does the Mission of an Organization Affect the Quality of Low-Skilled Jobs in Quasi-markets: A Comparison Between Social Enterprises and For-Profit Organizations
In recent decades, many countries have witnessed the introduction of quasi-market regulation, predominantly in the field of personal services where social enterprises (SEs) and for-profit organizations (FPOs) increasingly compete. The goal of this article is to contribute to the SE and nonprofit literature by analyzing the influence of enterprises’ missions on the quality of low-skilled jobs and to the public policy literature by assessing job qu…
Unpacking the organisational diversity within the collaborative economy: The contribution of an analytical framework from social enterprise theory
Understanding Cooperative Finance as a New Common
The emerging field of common good socio‐economics is promising not only for the preservation of common natural resources but also for common goods created by people through collective action, the importance of which has been emphasized by the recent financial and economic crisis. Based on the case of cooperative finance, this paper's outcomes are twofold. First, it shows that while the boundaries between the nature and property regime of goods ma…
Fundamentals for an International Typology of Social Enterprise Models
The quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise (SE) has been a central issue in the last two decades. However, it only seems feasible today to identify a few criteria that were most debated: the specific role of individual social entrepreneurs, the place of social innovation, the search for market income and the issue of governance. The arena of conceptualization efforts should now be fed with more contributions starting from bot…
Interest Rates in Savings Groups: Thrift or Threat
Public Policies and Work Integration Social Enterprises: The Challenge of Institutionalization in a Neoliberal Era
One particular field of Social Enterprise – WISEs or Work Integration Social Enterprises – has become increasingly recognised as being emblematic of the dynamics of social enterprises and now constitutes a major sphere of their activity globally. From their early roots, focusing on providing productive activity for the blind and those with other physical and/or intellectual disabilities, WISEs are pioneers in promoting the integration of excluded…
Voluntas Symposium: Comments on Salamon and Sokolowski’s Re-conceptualization of the Third Sector
With their “Beyond Nonprofits: Re-conceptualizing the Third Sector”, Salamon and Sokolowski have made an important contribution to the ongoing debate on how to define the third sector. This Voluntas symposium brings together the comments of five leading scholars both supportive and critical of the new definition. The comments are based on a debate held at the conference of the International Society for Third Sector Research, in Stockholm in 2016
ESS et ressources communes : vers la reconnaissance d’une diversité institutionnelle: Interpellations croisées
Cet article vise à faire dialoguer les analyses sur la production de biens et services quasi collectifs par des organisations de l’économie sociale et solidaire (ESS) avec les travaux d’Ostrom sur les ressources communes, à partir de trois entrées : l’analyse des régimes de propriété comme faisceau de droits, la nature collective des biens et services fournis et la production collective de normes. Nous identifions les convergences et les divergen…
Conceptions of Social Enterprise in Europe: A Comparative Perspective with the United States
The concepts of ‘social enterprise’, ‘social entrepreneurship’ and ‘social entrepreneur’ were almost unknown or at least unused some 20 or even ten years ago. In the last decade, however, they have become much more discussed on both sides of the Atlantic, especially in EU countries and the United States. They are also attracting increasing interest in other regions, such as east Asia (Defourny and Kim, 2011) and Latin America.
Approches européennes et américaines de l’entreprise social: Une perspective comparative
Alors que pratiquement personne ne s’y référait il y a encore une quinzaine d’années, les notions d’entreprise sociale et d’entrepreneuriat social sont en train d’opérer une étonnante percée sur presque tous les continents. C’est en Europe et aux États-Unis que les travaux de recherche en la matière sont les plus avancés, mais pendant près de dix ans ils se sont développés de manière parallèle, avec peu d’interactions entre les deux régions. Dans…
Quasi‐marketisation in domiciliary care: Varied patterns, similar problems
Purpose This paper seeks to explore various types of quasi‐market governance in domiciliary elderly care with an interest in both the institutional variety of these governance arrangements and their assumable consequences, against the twofold background of the EU care policy agenda and the Nordic experience. Design/methodology/approach Based on evidence from four Western European countries, the paper examines how recent reforms have changed the p…
Conceptions of Social Enterprise and Social Entrepreneurship in Europe and the United States: Convergences and Divergences
The concepts of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship are making amazing breakthroughs in EU countries and the United States. Until recently, the debates on both sides of the Atlantic have taken place in parallel trajectories with few connections among them. In the first part of the paper, we describe the European and US historical landscapes in which those concepts took root. In the second part, we analyse how the various conceptualizati…
Social enterprise in Europe: At the crossroads of market, public policies and third sector
Over the last 15 years, the concept of social enterprise has been raising an increasing interest in various regions of the world. In the present paper, we describe, first, the European historical landscapes in which the concept of social enterprise took root. In the second part, we analyze the various public policies introduced in several European countries. In the third part, we analyse the logics of financing of social enterprises. Based on the…
Les Quasi‐marches Dans L’aide a Domicile: Une Mise en Perspective Europeenne
RESUME ** : L’aide à domicile est emblématique d’importantes mutations à l’œuvre dans les sociétés européennes. L’objet de l’article est d’analyser les enjeux sous‐jacents à l’évolution des modes de régulation vers les quasi‐marchés. Dans la première partie, nous rappelons la nature des modes de régulations historiques de l’aide à domicile dans chacun des pays qui façonnent ainsi des régimes de care. Ensuite, nous analysons comment l’introduction…
Introduction to the Special Issue the Development of Quasi‐markets in Domiciliary Care: A European Perspective
Social enterprise in Europe: Recent trends and developments
Purpose Twelve years ago, the concept of social enterprise was rarely discussed in Europe, however it is now making significant breakthroughs in European Union (EU) countries. Within this context, the purpose of this paper is to synthesize major evolutions experienced by social enterprises across Europe and the key challenges they are facing; and specific members of the EMES European Research Network provide a more in‐depth update as to current t…
L'innovation sociale dans les services d'aide à domicile. Les apports d'une lecture polanyienne et féministe
Cet article examine la dynamique d’innovation sociale à l’origine des services de garde-malade, apparus dans le champ de l’aide à domicile il y a une vingtaine d’années. À travers une lecture « polanyienne » de l’organisation socio-économique et des théories féministes sur le care , l’objectif est de proposer une grille d’analyse originale qui permet d’analyser le processus sous-jacent à cette innovation, ainsi que certains aspects des rapports d…
Social Enterprise: At the Crossroads of Market, Public Policies and Civil Society
Microfinance et micro-assurance santé: Réflexions sur des articulations possibles à partir de quelques expériences au Bénin et au Burkina Faso
Au cours des dernières années, on a constaté que dans plusieurs pays (notamment en Afrique de l'Ouest) on assistait à la volonté de certaines organisations de combiner des activités de microfinance et de micro-assurance santé. Le texte présenté vise à établir une analyse de cette articulation en appuyant la réflexion sur quatre études de terrain menées au Bénin et une menée au Burkina Faso
Les services sociaux, entre associations, État et marché: L'aide aux personnes âgées
Solidarity-Based Third Sector Organizations in the “Proximity Services” Field: A European Francophone Perspective
This article reviews the role of third sector organizations in the field of “proximity services” from a francophone perspective. We analyze how the new wave of initiatives inside the third sector in France and francophone Belgium can be seen as providing institutional responses to state and market failures that arise from trust-dependent and quasi-collective attributes of these services. These initiatives are often called “solidarity based third …
Fundamentals for an International Typology of Social Enterprise Models
The quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise (SE) has been a central issue in the last two decades. However, it only seems feasible today to identify a few criteria that were most debated: the specific role of individual social entrepreneurs, the place of social innovation, the search for market income and the issue of governance. The arena of conceptualization efforts should now be fed with more contributions starting from bot…
Social enterprise in Europe: At the crossroads of market, public policies and third sector
Over the last 15 years, the concept of social enterprise has been raising an increasing interest in various regions of the world. In the present paper, we describe, first, the European historical landscapes in which the concept of social enterprise took root. In the second part, we analyze the various public policies introduced in several European countries. In the third part, we analyse the logics of financing of social enterprises. Based on the…
Quasi‐marketisation in domiciliary care: Varied patterns, similar problems
Purpose This paper seeks to explore various types of quasi‐market governance in domiciliary elderly care with an interest in both the institutional variety of these governance arrangements and their assumable consequences, against the twofold background of the EU care policy agenda and the Nordic experience. Design/methodology/approach Based on evidence from four Western European countries, the paper examines how recent reforms have changed the p…
Interest Rates in Savings Groups: Thrift or Threat
Solidarity-Based Third Sector Organizations in the “Proximity Services” Field: A European Francophone Perspective
This article reviews the role of third sector organizations in the field of “proximity services” from a francophone perspective. We analyze how the new wave of initiatives inside the third sector in France and francophone Belgium can be seen as providing institutional responses to state and market failures that arise from trust-dependent and quasi-collective attributes of these services. These initiatives are often called “solidarity based third …
Public Policies and Work Integration Social Enterprises: The Challenge of Institutionalization in a Neoliberal Era
One particular field of Social Enterprise – WISEs or Work Integration Social Enterprises – has become increasingly recognised as being emblematic of the dynamics of social enterprises and now constitutes a major sphere of their activity globally. From their early roots, focusing on providing productive activity for the blind and those with other physical and/or intellectual disabilities, WISEs are pioneers in promoting the integration of excluded…
Voluntas Symposium: Comments on Salamon and Sokolowski’s Re-conceptualization of the Third Sector
With their “Beyond Nonprofits: Re-conceptualizing the Third Sector”, Salamon and Sokolowski have made an important contribution to the ongoing debate on how to define the third sector. This Voluntas symposium brings together the comments of five leading scholars both supportive and critical of the new definition. The comments are based on a debate held at the conference of the International Society for Third Sector Research, in Stockholm in 2016
Popular economy in the south, third sector in the north: Are they signs of a germinating economy of solidarity
This article compares some components of the so‐called informal sector in countries of the North and of the South. We establish a parallel between the movements of the popular economy in the South and the social economy (third sector) in the North (Santiago de Chile and Belgium are the respective illustrative cases). Although the institutional contexts differ, we emphasize the similarities in evolution induced by the corresponding modes of regula…
Microfinance et micro-assurance santé: Réflexions sur des articulations possibles à partir de quelques expériences au Bénin et au Burkina Faso
Au cours des dernières années, on a constaté que dans plusieurs pays (notamment en Afrique de l'Ouest) on assistait à la volonté de certaines organisations de combiner des activités de microfinance et de micro-assurance santé. Le texte présenté vise à établir une analyse de cette articulation en appuyant la réflexion sur quatre études de terrain menées au Bénin et une menée au Burkina Faso
Embeddedness, cooperation and popular-economy firms in the informal sector
Unpacking the organisational diversity within the collaborative economy: The contribution of an analytical framework from social enterprise theory
Understanding Cooperative Finance as a New Common
The emerging field of common good socio‐economics is promising not only for the preservation of common natural resources but also for common goods created by people through collective action, the importance of which has been emphasized by the recent financial and economic crisis. Based on the case of cooperative finance, this paper's outcomes are twofold. First, it shows that while the boundaries between the nature and property regime of goods ma…
Les Quasi‐marches Dans L’aide a Domicile: Une Mise en Perspective Europeenne
RESUME ** : L’aide à domicile est emblématique d’importantes mutations à l’œuvre dans les sociétés européennes. L’objet de l’article est d’analyser les enjeux sous‐jacents à l’évolution des modes de régulation vers les quasi‐marchés. Dans la première partie, nous rappelons la nature des modes de régulations historiques de l’aide à domicile dans chacun des pays qui façonnent ainsi des régimes de care. Ensuite, nous analysons comment l’introduction…
Introduction to the Special Issue the Development of Quasi‐markets in Domiciliary Care: A European Perspective
Les approches économiques du tiers secteur. Apports et limites des analyses anglo-saxonnes d'inspiration néo-classique
Le tiers secteur constitue un objet qui a intrigué et continue d’intriguer les économistes qui placent leurs travaux sous le sceaux de la théorie néo-classique. Cet article recense les différentes approches anglo-saxonnes qui, armées d’un point de vue initialement forgé pour rendre raison des phénomènes marchands, tentent d’expliquer la présence et l’efficacité relative des organisations sans but lucratif qui composent le tiers secteur. L’auteur …
Popular economy in the south, third sector in the north: Are they signs of a germinating economy of solidarity
This article compares some components of the so‐called informal sector in countries of the North and of the South. We establish a parallel between the movements of the popular economy in the South and the social economy (third sector) in the North (Santiago de Chile and Belgium are the respective illustrative cases). Although the institutional contexts differ, we emphasize the similarities in evolution induced by the corresponding modes of regula…
Solidarity-Based Third Sector Organizations in the “Proximity Services” Field: A European Francophone Perspective
This article reviews the role of third sector organizations in the field of “proximity services” from a francophone perspective. We analyze how the new wave of initiatives inside the third sector in France and francophone Belgium can be seen as providing institutional responses to state and market failures that arise from trust-dependent and quasi-collective attributes of these services. These initiatives are often called “solidarity based third …
Embeddedness, cooperation and popular-economy firms in the informal sector
Les approches économiques du tiers secteur. Apports et limites des analyses anglo-saxonnes d'inspiration néo-classique
Le tiers secteur constitue un objet qui a intrigué et continue d’intriguer les économistes qui placent leurs travaux sous le sceaux de la théorie néo-classique. Cet article recense les différentes approches anglo-saxonnes qui, armées d’un point de vue initialement forgé pour rendre raison des phénomènes marchands, tentent d’expliquer la présence et l’efficacité relative des organisations sans but lucratif qui composent le tiers secteur. L’auteur …
Les approches économiques du tiers secteur
Les services sociaux, entre associations, État et marché: L'aide aux personnes âgées
Social Enterprise: At the Crossroads of Market, Public Policies and Civil Society
Microfinance et micro-assurance santé: Réflexions sur des articulations possibles à partir de quelques expériences au Bénin et au Burkina Faso
Au cours des dernières années, on a constaté que dans plusieurs pays (notamment en Afrique de l'Ouest) on assistait à la volonté de certaines organisations de combiner des activités de microfinance et de micro-assurance santé. Le texte présenté vise à établir une analyse de cette articulation en appuyant la réflexion sur quatre études de terrain menées au Bénin et une menée au Burkina Faso
Social enterprise in Europe: Recent trends and developments
Purpose Twelve years ago, the concept of social enterprise was rarely discussed in Europe, however it is now making significant breakthroughs in European Union (EU) countries. Within this context, the purpose of this paper is to synthesize major evolutions experienced by social enterprises across Europe and the key challenges they are facing; and specific members of the EMES European Research Network provide a more in‐depth update as to current t…
L'innovation sociale dans les services d'aide à domicile. Les apports d'une lecture polanyienne et féministe
Cet article examine la dynamique d’innovation sociale à l’origine des services de garde-malade, apparus dans le champ de l’aide à domicile il y a une vingtaine d’années. À travers une lecture « polanyienne » de l’organisation socio-économique et des théories féministes sur le care , l’objectif est de proposer une grille d’analyse originale qui permet d’analyser le processus sous-jacent à cette innovation, ainsi que certains aspects des rapports d…
Conceptions of Social Enterprise and Social Entrepreneurship in Europe and the United States: Convergences and Divergences
The concepts of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship are making amazing breakthroughs in EU countries and the United States. Until recently, the debates on both sides of the Atlantic have taken place in parallel trajectories with few connections among them. In the first part of the paper, we describe the European and US historical landscapes in which those concepts took root. In the second part, we analyse how the various conceptualizati…
Social enterprise in Europe: At the crossroads of market, public policies and third sector
Over the last 15 years, the concept of social enterprise has been raising an increasing interest in various regions of the world. In the present paper, we describe, first, the European historical landscapes in which the concept of social enterprise took root. In the second part, we analyze the various public policies introduced in several European countries. In the third part, we analyse the logics of financing of social enterprises. Based on the…
Les Quasi‐marches Dans L’aide a Domicile: Une Mise en Perspective Europeenne
RESUME ** : L’aide à domicile est emblématique d’importantes mutations à l’œuvre dans les sociétés européennes. L’objet de l’article est d’analyser les enjeux sous‐jacents à l’évolution des modes de régulation vers les quasi‐marchés. Dans la première partie, nous rappelons la nature des modes de régulations historiques de l’aide à domicile dans chacun des pays qui façonnent ainsi des régimes de care. Ensuite, nous analysons comment l’introduction…
Introduction to the Special Issue the Development of Quasi‐markets in Domiciliary Care: A European Perspective
Approches européennes et américaines de l’entreprise social: Une perspective comparative
Alors que pratiquement personne ne s’y référait il y a encore une quinzaine d’années, les notions d’entreprise sociale et d’entrepreneuriat social sont en train d’opérer une étonnante percée sur presque tous les continents. C’est en Europe et aux États-Unis que les travaux de recherche en la matière sont les plus avancés, mais pendant près de dix ans ils se sont développés de manière parallèle, avec peu d’interactions entre les deux régions. Dans…
Quasi‐marketisation in domiciliary care: Varied patterns, similar problems
Purpose This paper seeks to explore various types of quasi‐market governance in domiciliary elderly care with an interest in both the institutional variety of these governance arrangements and their assumable consequences, against the twofold background of the EU care policy agenda and the Nordic experience. Design/methodology/approach Based on evidence from four Western European countries, the paper examines how recent reforms have changed the p…
Conceptions of Social Enterprise in Europe: A Comparative Perspective with the United States
The concepts of ‘social enterprise’, ‘social entrepreneurship’ and ‘social entrepreneur’ were almost unknown or at least unused some 20 or even ten years ago. In the last decade, however, they have become much more discussed on both sides of the Atlantic, especially in EU countries and the United States. They are also attracting increasing interest in other regions, such as east Asia (Defourny and Kim, 2011) and Latin America.
ESS et ressources communes : vers la reconnaissance d’une diversité institutionnelle: Interpellations croisées
Cet article vise à faire dialoguer les analyses sur la production de biens et services quasi collectifs par des organisations de l’économie sociale et solidaire (ESS) avec les travaux d’Ostrom sur les ressources communes, à partir de trois entrées : l’analyse des régimes de propriété comme faisceau de droits, la nature collective des biens et services fournis et la production collective de normes. Nous identifions les convergences et les divergen…
Public Policies and Work Integration Social Enterprises: The Challenge of Institutionalization in a Neoliberal Era
One particular field of Social Enterprise – WISEs or Work Integration Social Enterprises – has become increasingly recognised as being emblematic of the dynamics of social enterprises and now constitutes a major sphere of their activity globally. From their early roots, focusing on providing productive activity for the blind and those with other physical and/or intellectual disabilities, WISEs are pioneers in promoting the integration of excluded…
Voluntas Symposium: Comments on Salamon and Sokolowski’s Re-conceptualization of the Third Sector
With their “Beyond Nonprofits: Re-conceptualizing the Third Sector”, Salamon and Sokolowski have made an important contribution to the ongoing debate on how to define the third sector. This Voluntas symposium brings together the comments of five leading scholars both supportive and critical of the new definition. The comments are based on a debate held at the conference of the International Society for Third Sector Research, in Stockholm in 2016
Understanding Cooperative Finance as a New Common
The emerging field of common good socio‐economics is promising not only for the preservation of common natural resources but also for common goods created by people through collective action, the importance of which has been emphasized by the recent financial and economic crisis. Based on the case of cooperative finance, this paper's outcomes are twofold. First, it shows that while the boundaries between the nature and property regime of goods ma…
Fundamentals for an International Typology of Social Enterprise Models
The quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise (SE) has been a central issue in the last two decades. However, it only seems feasible today to identify a few criteria that were most debated: the specific role of individual social entrepreneurs, the place of social innovation, the search for market income and the issue of governance. The arena of conceptualization efforts should now be fed with more contributions starting from bot…
Interest Rates in Savings Groups: Thrift or Threat
Does the Mission of an Organization Affect the Quality of Low-Skilled Jobs in Quasi-markets: A Comparison Between Social Enterprises and For-Profit Organizations
In recent decades, many countries have witnessed the introduction of quasi-market regulation, predominantly in the field of personal services where social enterprises (SEs) and for-profit organizations (FPOs) increasingly compete. The goal of this article is to contribute to the SE and nonprofit literature by analyzing the influence of enterprises’ missions on the quality of low-skilled jobs and to the public policy literature by assessing job qu…
Unpacking the organisational diversity within the collaborative economy: The contribution of an analytical framework from social enterprise theory
Political science (25 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Economics (11 works) · Public relations (10 works) · Social Sciences and Governance (9 works) · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences (8 works) · Humanities (8 works) · Social enterprise (8 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (8 works) · Business (7 works)