Social enterprises and commercial companies: converging or diverging realities?

This paper discusses the relationship between commercial companies and social enterprises. First, thisarticle identifies and analyses the initiatives taken by the European Union institutions in the field of socialenterprises; secondly, it discusses legislative solutions adopted by several Member States; and, finally, itreflects on the Portuguese legal system. Although the European Union has several initiatives aimed at socialenterprises, this is a non-harmonized matter. In this context, a number of Member States incorporated specificlegislation on social enterprises into their legal systems, but the models of legislation differ, as well as the legalregulation adopted. From the various initiatives of the European Union on social enterprises, it is possible todraw three conclusions: companies can, if certain requirements are met, be considered as social enterprises;the Portuguese legal system does not, expressly and generically, regulate social enterprises; and the creationof hybrid figures designed to accommodate the specific characteristics of social enterprises depends on thePortuguese legislator intervention.

• Autores: Meira, Deolinda; Ramo, Maria Elisabete
• Tipo de recurso: Work document
• Fecha de publicación: 2019
• Institución: Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia
• Repositorio: Repositorio UCC
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repository.ucc.edu.co:20.500.12494/11826
• Acceso en línea: https://revistas.ucc.edu.co/index.php/co/article/view/2628; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12494/11826
• Rights: openAccess
• License: http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2