Hubert Bonin (2025), Les responsabilités de l’entreprise. Entre performance et enjeux sociaux, sociétaux et environnementaux, Lausanne, Peter Lang, 406 p.
The aim of this article is to highlight the contradiction between the omnipresence of social and solidarity economy (SSE) actors as drivers of transitions in the Global South — particularly in Africa and the overseas territories — and their near absence in the academic literature. Although social an...
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2025
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| অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| সংক্ষিপ্ত: | The aim of this article is to highlight the contradiction between the omnipresence of social and solidarity economy (SSE) actors as drivers of transitions in the Global South — particularly in Africa and the overseas territories — and their near absence in the academic literature. Although social and solidarity-based economic dynamics are widespread in economic activity in the South, at a theoretical and epistemological level, the SSE in the South constitutes a blind spot in academic research. This gap is all the more surprising given that various forms of social organization in the Global South resemble SSE structures. Its revival was triggered by the neoliberal diktat of the Washington Consensus. To the point that it was described as the second largest economy on the African continent in the early 2000s, and recently some have considered it the main driver of the African economy, given its contribution to employment. Its conceptualization is therefore a major concern. All the more so since, according to the International Labour Organization, the values and principles of the SSE have taken a prominent place in recent legislation on decent work in the Global South. This shows that it is not necessarily statutes that structure the conceptualization of the SSE. Because these structures do not aim to position themselves by mimicking the criteria commonly used in Northern countries, as seen in other sectors. Since in most cases, the driving force of the SSE is to support, or even replace, the failing state, rendered ineffective by the neoliberal prescriptions of international institutions through structural adjustment programs. |
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