Never mind the buzzwords: comparing social enterprise policy-making in the United Kingdom and Australia

This article explores social enterprise policy in the United Kingdom and Australia. Using corpus analysis, it explores the convergences between policy discourse and ‘everyday language’ for each country. Findings show that social enterprise policy discourses differ by degrees of sophistication. The linguistic divergence between the countries’ policies reflects differences in how social enterprises are represented, whereby the U.K. presents a stronger emphasis on employment categories, and Australia, on market-oriented categories.