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Social Economy
Flavie-France
Social Economy designates a set of companies organized in different statutory forms :
cooperatives, mutuals, associations, foundations, and SSE commercial companies.
Comitted to their way of producing and consuming, they offer new possibilities for
entrepreneurship. These companies adopt democratic and participative management
methods, social economy enterprises and organisations are present in many
sectors. Successful social-economy organisations play a role in fulfilling governmental
policy objectives by:
Contributing to socially-inclusive wealth creation
Enabling individuals and communities to renew local neighbourhoods
Demonstrating new ways to deliver public services
Developing an inclusive society and active citizenship”
The social and solidarity economy is an economy whose social purpose is fundamental.
The company will use it’s profits in the service of a cause. It’s primary purpose is not for
profit. It carries out a collective project, most often for social and/or environmental
purposes.
A large diversity of enterprises and organisations: cooperatives, mutuals, associations,
foundations, social enterprises and paritarian institutions