4.2 The Nyenrode – PwC Social Enterprise Survey of 2016

The study presented in this article constitutes only a part of a larger study, i.e. the Nyenrode – PwC Social Enterprise Study conducted in 2016 by a research team that comprised a group of academic scholars and experienced practitioners in the Netherlands.1 The research group devised a partnership to implement an exploratory research design, i.e. the Nyenrode – PwC Social Enterprise Survey of 2016 (hereafter ‘the Survey’) with the objective to produce knowledge that will advance the social enterprise sector in the Netherlands. The exploratory research sought to identify whether a link exists between the success of Dutch social enterprises and stakeholder involvement in Dutch social enterprises.2 This article discusses only part of the findings of the larger research project, which concern in particular stakeholder participation in the governance of Dutch social enterprises. These findings are illustrative and exploratory. They encourage a more in-depth and qualitative study concerning stakeholder participation in the governance of Dutch social enterprises, which do not employ tailor-made legal forms.