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Author: Janelle A. Kerlin
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2017-04-10
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 1787142515
DOWNLOAD EBOOK‘Shaping Social Enterprise’ helps researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and international development actors better understand various institutional paths of social enterprise development and where institutional strengths and weaknesses may be located.
Author: Janelle A. Kerlin
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2009-11-15
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1584658169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comparative look at how social enterprise is shaped by local conditions worldwide
Author: Ian C. MacMillan
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2013-11-12
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1613631324
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWharton professor Ian C. MacMillan and Dr. James Thompson, director of the Wharton Social Entrepreneurship Program, provide a tough-love approach that significantly increases the likelihood of a successful social enterprise launch in the face of the high-uncertainty conditions typically encountered by social entrepreneurs.
Author: Christian Seelos
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2017-01-04
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1503600998
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInnovation and Scaling for Impact forces us to reassess how social sector organizations create value. Drawing on a decade of research, Christian Seelos and Johanna Mair transcend widely held misconceptions, getting to the core of what a sound impact strategy entails in the nonprofit world. They reveal an overlooked nexus between investments that might not pan out (innovation) and expansion based on existing strengths (scaling). In the process, it becomes clear that managing this tension is a difficult balancing act that fundamentally defines an organization and its impact. The authors examine innovation pathologies that can derail organizations by thwarting their efforts to juggle these imperatives. Then, through four rich case studies, they detail innovation archetypes that effectively sidestep these pathologies and blend innovation with scaling. Readers will come away with conceptual models to drive progress in the social sector and tools for defining the future of their organizations.
Author: Nina Boeger
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-02-22
Total Pages: 522
ISBN-13: 1509914323
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCurrently, there exists a distrust of corporate activity in the continuing aftermath of the financial crisis and with increasing recognition of the threats of climate change and global, as well as national, inequalities. Despite efforts in the arena of corporate governance to address these, we are still beset with corporate scandals and witness companies facing large fines for their environmental and cost-cutting misdemeanours. Recognising that the usual responses to dealing with these corporate problems are not effective, this book asks whether the traditional form of the joint stock corporation itself lies at the heart of these problems. What are the features of the corporate form and how does its current regulation underscore these problems? Identifying such features provides a basis for the discussion to develop towards suggesting more progressive regulatory developments around the corporate form. More fundamentally, this book investigates a diverse range of corporate governance models that are emerging as alternatives to the shareholder corporation, including employee-owned, cooperative and social enterprises. The contributors are leading scholars from various backgrounds including law, management and organisation studies, finance and accounting, as well as experienced professionals and policy makers with expertise in social and cooperative business models and the role of employees in the corporation.
Author: Collectif
Publisher: OECD
Published: 2017-04-21
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9264268510
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSocial enterprises are long-standing agents of inclusive growth and democratisation of the economic and social spheres, and they have proved resilient to economic adversity all the while addressing socio-economic challenges in innovative ways, re-integrating people back to the labour market, and contributing to overall social cohesion. This compendium derives policy lessons for boosting social enterprises from the analysis of 20 initiatives in several EU member-countries, covering a range of policy areas from legal frameworks, finance, market access, and support structures, to education and skills.
Author: Dennis R. Young
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2016-09-28
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1784716065
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Social Enterprise Zoo employs the metaphor of the zoo to gain a more comprehensive understanding of social enterprise – especially the diversity of its forms; the various ways it is organized in different socio-political environments; how different forms of enterprise behave, interact, and thrive; and what lessons can be drawn for the future development and study of organizations that seek to balance social or environmental impact with economic success. Recommended for students, researchers, policymakers, entrepreneurs and managers of social purpose organizations.
Author: Madeline Powell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-02-01
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 1003847161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSocial enterprises are businesses with primarily social or environmental purposes designed to create value for the clients of the business, and to reinvest surpluses into the business or community. They serve as social innovation laboratories, and frequently collaborate with governments or other nonprofits to serve their communities and clientele. The chapters in this book discuss the development and flourishing of social enterprises in eight countries around the world, including China, India, Great Britain, the United States and the Czech Republic. Specifically, the authors cover how social enterprises are managed, how they operate with their national and local governments, and the contributions they are making to service delivery and social innovation. Different theoretical lenses are used to assess the roles that social enterprises play in the different countries, and how they relate both to the nonprofit world and their governments. This book will appeal to all students, researchers and scholars who focus on the third sector, social economy, public policy and social enterprise, as well as to intellectual social enterprise leaders and practitioners. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Public Management Review.
Author: B. Gidron
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-08-20
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1137035307
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents an organizational perspective of social enterprises, which allows us to analyze issues such as their governing structure, their modes of operation and their marketing strategies, and to begin to formulate some theoretical constructs on how these entities can survive and thrive.
Author: Marthe Nyssens
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-01-24
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 113418218X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeveloping earlier theories of social enterprise through comparative analysis, and including contributions from an impressive list of industry leaders, this key text is essential reading for academics, researchers and students in the fields of the third sector and social policies.
