A profile of social enterprise in Brazil based on theoretical differences from and similarities with US, European, and emerging country perspectives

The topic of social enterprise (SE) has gained much attention in academic and business discussions, but knowledge concerning SE is still incipient in Brazil. Our objective is to identify the profile of and to verify which of the three SE perspectives Brazilian SE resembles. In total, 730 social organisations were identified in Brazil through the available public data, from which 84 SEs were randomly selected for descriptive statistics collection...