Assembling Understandings : Findings from the Canadian Social Economy Research Partnerhsips, 2005-2011 / / Matthew Thompson and Joy Emmanuel.

• Author: Canadian Electronic Library (Firm); Thompson, Matthew, 1982-
• TeilnehmendeR: Emmanuel, Joy, 1955-; Canadian Electronic Library (Firm)
• Place / Publishing House: Victoria, BC : : University of Victoria,, 2012.; ©2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Canadian Electronic Library. Documents collection.; Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian public policy collection.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (167 p.)
• Notes: Issued as part of the Canadian Electronic Library, Documents collection, and Canadian public policy collection.

With Assembling Understandings, the Canadian Social Economy Hub has developed a thematic summary of the CSERP outputs, exploring some of the dominant crosscutting themes within the research findings. This approach is very similar to a grounded theory approach wherein the authors, while reviewing the...

Table of Contents

• Author biography
• Introduction
• Websites of the Canadian social economy research partnerships
• Frequently used abbreviations
• Mapping the social economy: how do we know thee? Let us count the ways
• Social enterprises and the social economy
• Co-operatives and the social economy
• The social economy and indigenous peoples
• Organizational governance and capacity
• Financing the social economy
• Enabling and enforcing the social economy through public policy
• Conclusion.