Creating more and better quality jobs is key to boosting growth, reducing poverty and increasing social cohesion.

After having explained the smaller gender gap in social entrepreneurship compared to commercial entrepreneurship, this paper provides information on female management style and on the innovation capacity of social enteprises led by women. This Report is based on SELUSI data and presents three specific case studies from Hungary, Russia and Chile.

Highlights

• Identifies/synthesises social enterprise activity on health and well-being.
• Presents a potential conceptual model to aid understanding of pathways to impact.
• Positive evidence presented upon a range of psycho-social outcomes and determinants.
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Multiple global crises and heightened concerns about the social and environmental consequences of economic growth and liberalization have reignited interest in alternative production and consumption patterns, and ways of organizing enterprise activities. In recent years, considerable attention has focused on Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE).