Review of: Jacques Defourny, Lars Hulgard, Victor Pestoff (Edited by), Social Enterprise and the Third Sector. Changing European landscapes in a comparative perspective, Routledge, London and New York, 2014, pp. 279

The book is the most recent publication of the cluster of scholars grouped around the EMES European Research Network, nowadays an international research team rooted in the set of scholars that in the mid-1990s started the European Research Project called Emergence des Enterprises Sociales en Europe. The book aims at contributing to clarify the study of the sector of society populated by a peculiar typology of organizations that ‘‘do not belong to the privatefor-profit sector or to the public sector’’ (p. 1). Social scientists have adopted different labels in order to qualify these organizations’ population or family but recently the appearance of new forms of organization required the introduction of new terms and concepts, such as social enterprise, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurship, social and solidarity economy, and social innovation. This upsurge of new juridical and organizational arrangements dealing with the handle of collective environmental and social problems requires a new analytical framework in order to understand this new emerging ‘‘SE field’’ (meaning = social aims ? entrepreneurial ways of decision making). The book is structured in two parts. The first part (Chaps. 1–6) proposes analytical tools to conceptualize key notions of the SE field from the EMES perspective. The second part (Chaps. 7–13) deals with key issues crucial for social enterprises and third sector organizations’ development.