1.4.1.5 Survey of stakeholder participation in Dutch social enterprises

For illustrative purposes, the research is extended to one country without a tailor-made legal regime for social enterprises, i.e. the Netherlands. Chapter 4 illustrates the results of a survey-based study, i.e. the Nyenrode – PwC Social Enterprise Survey of 2016, which examined stakeholder participation in the governance of Dutch social enterprises. The examined Dutch social enterprises do not employ variations of a tailor-made legal form since this option is not available in the Dutch legal system.

Sub-section 4.3 of Chapter 4 discusses the employed methods used for the design of the relevant part in the Nyenrode – PwC Social Enterprise Survey of 2016. The survey-based findings provide background information concerning stakeholder participation in the governance of social enterprises in the Netherlands, but they do not have the depth of the findings produced by the meta-synthesis of the nine qualitative case studies. As such, they cannot be compared vis-à-vis with the case studies. However, the exploratory findings of the Nyenrode – PwC Social Enterprise Survey of 2016 provide insightful information, which encourages a more in-depth and qualitative study concerning stakeholder participation in the governance of social enterprises in the Netherlands.