Social Purpose Enterprises
Case Studies for Social Change
by Edited by Jack Quarter, Sherida Ryan, and Andrea Chan
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Pub Date Dec 16 2014 | Archive Date Dec 22 2014
Description
Social Purpose Enterprises presents case studies of twelve organizations that operate in a growing niche within the Canadian social economy: market-based entities supported by a nonprofit organization and operated for the benefit of a workforce that lives on the margins of society.
Using a variety of research methods, the contributors examine the work of social purpose enterprises in a range of businesses including food services, child care, furniture, courier services, and microfinance. Combining the expertise of academics and practitioners, each chapter analyses the economic, social, and policy implications of the specific case.
Building on the findings published in Researching the Social Economy (2010) and Businesses with a Difference (2013), Social Purpose Enterprises provides a valuable resource for those involved in the growing push to encourage market-based solutions for those on the social margins.
JACK QUARTER is a professor and co-director of the Social Economy Centre at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.
SHERIDA RYAN is a post-doctoral fellow, co-director of the Social Economy Centre and faculty member with the Adult Education and Community Development Program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.
ANDREA CHAN is a doctoral candidate in the Adult Education and Community Development Program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.
Advance Praise
“The primary purpose of a business is to make money for its owners through selling a product or service to consumers. However, within the last decade, there is a growing trend: a new concept of business that not only attempts to earn revenue from sales but also serves a social purpose ... Earning money through the sale of services and goods is part of their raison d’être, but commerce is subsumed within their social purposes: the betterment of a marginalized social group, which most often is the employees.”
The Editors
“Social Purpose Enterprises illustrates the great variety of fields in which we now find social purpose enterprises and presents a number of effective approaches that can be used to assess their impact. The case studies will resonate with a wide audience: university students, researchers, leaders of social economy organizations and social purpose enterprises, and funders of these initiatives.”
Luc Thériault, Department of Sociology,
University of New Brunswick
Contributors
Kunle Akingbola
Caroline Arcand
Ann Armstrong
Chinyere Amadi
Ida Berger
Courtney Bishop
Jeannette Campbell
Andrea Chan
Michael Classens
Honley Crossley
Ray Dart
Jackson Foster
Mary Foster
Peter Frampton
Itay Greenspan
Femida Handy
Jennifer Hann
Susan Henry
Andrew Holeton
Jennifer Hope
Robyn Hoogendam
Edward T. Jackson
Susanna Kislenko
Annie Lok
J.J. McMurtry
Agnes Meinhard
Laurie Mook
Kristine Neglia
Frances Owen
Pauline O’Connor
Emily Pohl-Weary
Jack Quarter
Sherida Ryan
Daniel Schugurensky
Ushnish Sengupta
Jennifer Sumner
Marlene Walk
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| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781442614048 |
| PRICE | CA$29.95 (CAD) |
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