ne of the paradoxes of social research is that in certain spheres, despite a vast outpouring of
literature, key questions remain unanswered. This would seem to be the situation in the field of social
enterprise research, particularly in relation to the question: what is the geography of social enterprise
in the UK? In recent years, the pace of research on social enterprise has increased considerably; yet
despite some notable contributions from geographers to the field (e.g. Amin et al., 2002), the
geographical dimensions of social enterprise remain something of a mystery (Muñoz, 2009).