Businesses with a Difference : : Balancing the Social and the Economic / / Laurie Mook, Jack Quarter, Sherida Ryan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Mook, Laurie,; Quarter, Jack,; Ryan, Sherida,
• MitwirkendeR: Brouard, François,; Cid, Mikel,; Gruner, Sheila,; Halseth, Greg,; Hann, Jennifer,; Hebb, Tessa,; Larrabure, Manuel,; Macleod, Greg,; Macpherson, Ian,; Madill, Judith,; Metatawabin, Edmund,; Mook, Laurie,; Peredo, Ana María,; Quarter, Jack,; Restoule, Jean-Paul,; Ryan, Sherida,; Ryser, Laura,; Schugurensky, Daniel,; Sousa, Jorge,; Spear, Roger,; Vieta, Marcelo,; Whitman, John R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 9 figures; 1 table

Market-based social economy firms such as social enterprises, social purpose businesses, co-operatives, credit unions, and community economic development corporations aim to meet distinct social needs while making money. Do these types of businesses have the potential for growth in the modern economy? Are they destined to function only in areas where conventional firms cannot achieve a sufficient rate of return? Or will the role of social economy organizations change as businesses begin placing more emphasis on corporate social responsibility?Building on the popular 2010 collection Researching the Social Economy, Businesses with a Difference explores the challenges and opportunities faced by firms that seek a genuine balance between their social and economic objectives. Through international case studies, including comparative analyses, this innovative collection highlights the unique issues that must be addressed when associations are accountable not to investors and shareholders, but instead to ordinary people.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Historic Changes in the Canadian Credit Union Movement -- 2. Non-financial Co-operatives in Canada: 1955 to 2005 -- 3. Leaving and Entering the Social Economy: Factors Associated with the Conversion of Organizational Form -- 4. The Difference Culture Makes: The Competitive Advantage of Reciprocal, Non-monetary Exchange -- 5. Community Business Development -- 6. Social Businesses in Twenty-First Century Latin America: The Cases of Argentina and Venezuela -- 7. Challenges for Engaging Social Economy Businesses in Rural and Small Town Renewal -- 8. Land, Self-Determination, and the Social Economy in Fort Albany First Nation -- 9. Social Entrepreneurship: A Comparative Perspective -- 10. Exploring Social Transformation, Financial Self-Sufficiency, and Innovation in Canadian Social Enterprises -- 11. Education for the Social -- Contributors