Interest in social enterprise and related topics has boomed in the last year on the part of researchers worldwide. While some of these researchers work in the context of research teams, the majority of social enterprise researchers find themselves sometimes isolated from the rest of the community.

There were eight individuals among the founding members of EMES and their contribution to the development of EMES has been essential. We believe in the power of connecting individual researchers around the world and the EMES membership strategy launched in 2013 seeks to facilitate that researchers know about each other’s interests, publications and related information while exchanging opportunities for joint publications and research initiatives.