[en] The study presented here explores B-Corporations, "corporations with purpose", and employee ownership, in order to contribute possible solutions to serious socioeconomic problems in México and address important gaps in the academic literature on this kind of enterprise. We analyze participants' perceptions, experiences, tensions, limitations and possibilities with respect to B-Corp values and their effects on stakeholder groups. We also investigate the phenomenon of employee participation in capital ownership in these organizations. Four case studies were carried out of companies certified by B-Lab in the city of Guadalajara, México. The study has a qualitative focus (Maxwell, 2019) and uses a case study approach (Stake, 1995; Yin, 2009, 2018). The methods and tools applied, though not without certain natural limitations, were adequate to the task of analyzing in depth the lived experience of being "corporations with purpose" and of employee share ownership. Among the principal findings, it was discovered that being B-Corps was relevant to the participants in the organizations studied and that they fulfilled their "purpose", though to varying degrees and in very diverse ways. Further, given their particular hybrid nature and thus seeking to realize multiple objectives (Battilana, 2018), the firms encounter different challenges and tensions in transmitting to their internal stakeholders the full meaning and implications of being a B-Corp. This certification continues to be part of the tradition of top-down management strategies and, for many participants, it is not genuinely appropriated by agents inside or outside the organization. Finally, as regards employee ownership, we found different factors that, intertwined, permitted the opening of capital ownership to employees in these firms "with purpose", but that this opening up was somewhat fragile, limited, heterogeneous in its application, even selective, and that it did not represent a broad exercise of democracy and/or social economy (Defourny & Nyssens, 2010; Díaz, 2015; Mugarra, 2004). While there are certainly limitations to the present study as a piece of qualitative research, and more investigation is required in the future, the study does contribute a new perspective to the search for innovative business solutions in a context of systemic crisis.

[eu] Ikerketa honek, B enpresak, "helburua dauzkaten enpresak", eta langileen jabetza aztertu ditu, Mexikoko arazo sozioekonomiko larriei irtenbideak emateko eta enpresa mota horri buruzko literatura zientifikoan dauden hutsune garrantzitsuak ikertzeko. Batetik, aztertzen dira, B-Corps izatearen balioen gaineko iruditeriak, bizipenak, tentsioak, mugak, ahalmenak, eta hauen eragina bere intereseko taldetan, eta bestetik, aztertu egiten da, jabetzaren fenomenoa erakunde horietan. B-Labek egiaztatutako enpresen, lau kasu-azterketa egin ziren, Mexikoko Guadalajara hirian, Ikuspegi kualitatiboa duen ikerketa izan zen (Maxwell, 2019) eta kasu-azterketen aplikazioa burutu zen. (Stake, 1995; Yin, 2009, 2018). Aplikatutako metodologia eta tresnak, muga propioekin bada ere, egokiak izan ziren sakon aztertzeko nola bizi duten enpresek, B enpresa izatea, eta langileen jabetza. Aurkikuntza nagusien artean, ikusi zen, B enpresa izatea garrantzitsua dela aztertutako erakundeentzat, eta beren asmoa betetzen dutela, baina maila eta modu desberdinetan. Era berean, beren berezitasun hibridoa dela eta, helburu anitzak baitituzte, (Battilana, 2018), enpresek, hainbat erronka eta tentsio aurkitzen dituzte, beren barne-stakeholderrei B enpresa izatearekin lotutako esanahiak eta inplikazioak transmititzeko. Egiaztatze honek, goitik behera datozen gerentzia estrategien parte izaten jarraitzen du, eta parte-hartzaile askorentzat erakundearen barnealdea eta kanpoaldea benetan bereganatu gabe geratzen da. Azkenik, langileen jabetzaren gaiari dagokionez, zenbait faktore kateatzen dira eta enpresetan jabetza irekitzea ahalbidetzen dute. Azken hau, hauskorra, mugatua, heterogeneoa eta selektiboa da, eta beraz, ez dago demokraziako eta/edo gizarte-ekonomiako ekimenik. (Defourny & Nyssens, 2010; Díaz, 2015; Mugarra, 2004). Ikerketa kualitatibo gisa, azterlan honetarako hainbat oztopo egon arren, eta etorkizunean ikertzen jarraitu behar bada ere, ikerketa honek, beste ikuspegi bat ematen du, krisi sistemikoko testuinguru batean enpresa irtenbide berritzaileak bilatzeari dagokionez.