“…In addition, owing to their forms of governance and ownership, associations and more generally the social economy may be defined ‘as a mechanism for compromise designed to manage the tensions among several forms of organization, and involving market, domestic, solidarity‐based, administrative and democratic forms of organization’ (Enjolras 1994: 94). In this view, the social economy may be analysed employing different disciplines, such as the socio‐economic approach (Laville 2003, Michelsen 1994, Enjolras 1995, Spear 2000), management sciences (Bouchard 2005, Chaves and Sajardo‐Moreno 2004, Malo and Vézina 2004), institutionalism (Chaves 2002, Bernier, Bouchard and Lévesque 2003), law (Münkner 1994), history (Levasseur and Rousseau 1992) and, of course, economic thought (Demoustier and Rousselière 2005).…”