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EMES News Alert
November 2020

Digital research workshop on “Sport as community builder: Social entrepreneurship and social enterprises in sports”

Sport is multi-faceted when it comes to social entrepreneurship and social enterprise (SE). Firstly, sport can in itself be the generator of community. Secondly, it can serve as an intervention method for solving social/community problems. These dimensions are positively reflected in public policy documents of institutions of high international relevance: World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations, European Union, etc.

In the framework of the EMPOWER-SE COST Action, Working Group 2 (Industries and Impact), we invite proposals for contributions to this exploratory seminar on a currently under-researched topic such as sport and social enterprise. These can include national evidence or international comparative research dealing with:

  1. Theoretical and epistemological perspectives.
  2. The role of SE initiatives in national sport systems and their impact on local communities.
  3. The governance of social enterprises in sport and their challenges.
  4. Innovative contributions to sport and society at large.

All interested scholars, particularly early stage researchers, are encouraged to either submit their abstracts to present ongoing or recently completed work on the topics or take part as participant in this pioneer scientific event to be held virtually.  

See the call for papers here.

Event hashtag: #SportEmpowerSE

Abstract submission now open!

As we continue to watch carefully the evolution of the pandemic and how it will affect the dates and format of the 8th EMES International Research Conference (#8EMESconf), we encourage you to prepare and submit your abstract(s). Remember that despite the limitations, we continue to be a community of committed human beings with a huge transformative power through the research that we conduct and the relationships that we build with field practitioners, policymakers and citizens in general.

The th
ematic lines defined for this #8EMESconf reflect the diversity and richness of our research field, so we hope that you can find the one that fits your work: 

  1. Theoretical foundations of social enterprise, cooperative and voluntary action principles and values: Complimentarities, contradictions and their implications
  2. Sustaining and scaling social, cooperative and voluntary action: Balancing and funding SE principles over time
  3. Values-driven social innovation and entrepreneurship
  4. Multi-Level governance, enabling ecosystems for SE and sustainable development
  5. SE meets the commons: social technologies, collaborative economy and open data
  6. Innovative fields in the SE action: social and health services, sports, etc.
  7. Unleashing the critical and transformative potential of culture and the arts through SE, cooperative and voluntary action
  8. Empowering migrants and harnessing the potential of migration via SEs and voluntary action
  9. SE, popular, and solidarity economies of the Global North and South: transformative movements, radical values and forms of democracy in action
  10. SE research and action under Polanyian principles
  11. Advancements on epistemological, methodological and pedagogic aspects of SE
Read the call for papers here.

Conference hashtag: #8EMESconf

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The voices of PhDs and early career researchers are heard through the EMES Junior Experts' Blog 


The three latest entries of the EMES Junior Experts' Blog (#EJEBblog) will likely surprise you due both to the relevant research topics they cover and the approach that their authors take on them:

"Radical or instrumental social innovation? Two opposing approaches used by social enterprises to understand and address social problems" by Sergio Páramo-Ortiz

"Commodity to People: Youth employment through Social Innovation" by Vrinda Chopra ad Stuti Sareen

"Once upon a time, somewhere in Belgium, there was a social enterprise…" by Coralie Helleputte


Hashtag: #EJEBblog
Call for manuscript submissions for “Sustainable Social Enterprises Governance and Management”

Being part of EMES has many benefits; among these, there is the possibility of being part of an international network of social enterprise scholars with whom it is possible to join research programs and publishing possibilities. This is also the case of the new call for submissions launched by the Sustainability Journal.

The editors of this special issue are EMES members Ermanno C. Tortia (University of Trento), Florence Degavre (UniversitĂ© Catholique de Louvain) and Simone Poledrini (University of Perugia) together with MĂłnica Gago GarcĂ­a (Mondragon University).

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Our member Nevena Radoynovska is extending a warm invite to the enlarged EMES community to consider submitting a paper to a sub-theme for the next EGOS conference on the topic of “The Bright and the Dark Sides of Entrepreneurship’s Social Effects,”.

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