ABSTRACT
Decolonizing a concept such as social enterprise means to recognise the particularity of the Western discourse on issues such as development, wealth and poverty, as already demonstrated by E. Zein-Elabdin and S. Charusheela. Decolonising economic initiatives such as social enterprises implies a host of measures. If social enterprises aim to foster social and environmental justice, then they need to recognise the burden that racialised people, especially women, have to bear in their communities. Despite the relevant European contributions to deepen the concept of social enterprise, especially with regard to issues such as participation criteria, decision-making processes and limits for profit distribution, some limitations on social enterprises remain in need of a deeper analysis. Except for some worker cooperatives, there seems to persist an imbalance of forces between the ones who plan and run a social enterprise and the beneficiaries of the previously defined social goals.
