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Social enterprises in search of professionalism
[Les entreprises sociales en quête de professionnalisation]

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  • Cécile Clergeau

    (LEN - Laboratoire d'économie de Nantes - IEMN-IAE Nantes - Institut d'Économie et de Management de Nantes - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - UN - Université de Nantes)

  • Annie Dussuet

    (GTM - Genre, Travail, Mobilités - UMR7183 - UP8 - Université Paris 8 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

The elderly home-care sector exhibits several different employment models ranging from the "professional" model to the "flexible" model. The authors base their study on a survey conducted in 2002 of 24 organizations providing home-care services to the elderly in the two departments of the Maine-et-Loire and Loire-Atlantique. They show a close relationship between the employment models and the type of service offered by the organizations. The type of home-care service invented by the social economy is shown to be an attempt at forming a compromise between the professional approach of hospital-style services and the domestic approach of home help. By acting as service providers in the home, social economy organizations are moving towards the professionalization of these activities. Following the study of the entrepreneurial processes that operate in the elderly home-care field (see Recma issue no. 293), this new article looks at the sector's employees.

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  • Cécile Clergeau & Annie Dussuet, 2004. "Social enterprises in search of professionalism [Les entreprises sociales en quête de professionnalisation]," Post-Print hal-04453881, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04453881
    DOI: 10.7202/1022021ar
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