Laurent Gardin - Brief Bio

Laurent Gardin obtained his PhD in sociology from the Conservatoire national des Arts et Métiers (Cnam) in Paris in 2004. He also obtained a post-graduate degree in Management of social development in 1990, in Paris IX Dauphine.

He has also been a lecturer at the Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut Cambrésis since 2005. Within this same university, he is also a member of Réseau 21; he is the co-director, within the Laboratoire interdisciplinaire de sociologie économique (Lise - Unité mixte de recherche, Cnam-CNRS), of the research department on Economic sociology and democracy. He joined the Laboratoire interdisciplinaire de sociologie des institutions and the research team of the CRIDA in 1991.

Beside the EMES Network, he took part in several European research networks in the framework of works on local initiatives of development and employment and on social enterprises, in cooperation with other research centres and groupments of European actors (CECOP, ENSIE…).

Selected Publications:

· "A variety of resource mixes inside social enterprises", in Social Enterprise, At the Crossroads of Market, Public Policies and Civil Society, Edited by: M. Nyssens, London and New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2006.
· "La réciprocité", in Jean-Louis Laville et Antonio David Cattani (eds.), Dictionnaire de l’autre économie, Paris, Desclée de Brouwer, 2005.
· "L'économie sociale et solidaire dans la région Nord Pas-de-Calais", (with Jean-Louis Laville, Erick Roussel) in Jean-Louis Laville et al. (eds.), Action publique et économie solidaire, Editions Erès, avril 2005, pp. 259-286.
· "Entreprise sociale et droit social", Hermès, Paris, CNRS Editions, n°36, 2003.
· Le iniziative locali in Europa. Bilancio economico e sociale (with Jean-Louis Laville), Turin, Bollati Boringhieri, 1999.