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Over the last years, a profusion of business models and structures have emerged as a response to different social and environmental challenges. New types of corporate (for-profit) entities with a social mission, such as the benefit corporations in the US, enterprises \u00e0 mission in France, or community interest companies in the UK, have developed rapidly and blurred the boundaries between traditional nonprofit organizations and classic for-profit companies.<\/p>\n

Professor Fran\u00e7ois Maon from I\u00c9SEG, and his coauthors Coline Serres and Marek Hudon (Universit\u00e9 libre de Bruxelles) have recently carried out a comprehensive international study of social corporations \u2013 for-profit entities that have the social mission formally stated in their articles\/bylaws.<\/strong> Their work aims to provide a clear overview\/typology of the types of corporations that have developed in different countries and their legal and governance structures; and secondly to identify the key mechanisms that enable such companies to be successful in pursuing their dual mission.<\/p>\n