Les organisations et les entreprises de l’économie sociale s’apparentent aujourd’hui à une sorte de "laboratoire d’expérimentations de pratiques sociales nouvelles". Elles constituent un secteur dynamique et sont porteuses d’innovations sociales, notamment en matière de gestion économique, d’organisation du travail, de démocratie participative et de développement durable. L’économie sociale peut être considérée comme innovatrice car elle met en interaction, dès sa création, un regroupement de personnes et une entreprise ou une organisation capable de mobiliser des ressources financières et humaines pour produire des biens ou des services. Pourtant, avec les excès de la mondialisation, d’autres concepts, telle la responsabilité sociale des entreprises, ont émergé et rendent plus floues les frontières avec le tiers-secteur. Organizations and companies of the social economy are today a kind of "laboratory of experiments for new social practices". They constitute a dynamic sector and are carrying social innovations, in particular as regards management, organization of work, participative democracy and sustainable development. Social economy can be regarded as innovating because it puts in interaction, since its creation, a group of people and a company or an organization able to gather financial and human resources in order to produce goods or services. However, due to the excesses of globalization, other concepts, such as corporate social responsibility, are emerging and make fuzzier the boundaries with the third-sector.
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Length: 15 pages Date of creation: Jul 2007 Date of revision: Publication status: Published in Cahiers du Lab.RII, Juillet 2007 Handle: RePEc:rii:riidoc:160
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