A social enterprise is essentially an organisation that trades in the market, but aims to do more than make a financial profit; instead, it devotes the profit it makes towards a social objective. Definitions vary. The best established European research network in the field, EMES , works with a Weberian 'ideal type' which sets out nine fuzzy criteria:
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