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This article provides a meta-synthesis and a cross-examination of findings from nine qualitative case studies regarding the participatory governance of social enterprises. The meta-synthesis comprises a cross-case comparison amongst the examined cases and a synthesis/integration of findings which explains how the element of participatory governance in tailor-made legal forms for social enterprises works in practice. In this article, the aggregate results of the qualitative case studies are presented. The case studies considered social enterprises which employed variations of legal forms from different jurisdictions operating in different sectors.

Meta-synthesis, Social Enterprises, Participatory Governance, Greece, Belgium, UK