Social Enterprises: An Organizational Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781349347575 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 273 str.

B. Gidron;Y. Hasenfeld

Opis

Presents 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.

Spis treści

List of Tables List of Figures Foreword; S.R.Smith Notes on Contributors Introduction; B.Gidron & Y.Hasenfeld PART I: THEORETICAL APPROACHES The State of Theory and Research on Social Enterprises; D.R.Young Social Enterprises and Social Categories; J.Galaskiewicz & S.N.Barringer Conceptions of Social Enterprise in Europe: A Comparative Perspective with the United States; J.Defourny & M.Nyssens Defining Social Enterprise across Different Contexts: A Conceptual Framework Based on Institutional Factors; J.A.Kerlin PART II: EMPIRICAL STUDIES Managing Conflicting Institutional Logics: Social Service vs. Market; E.Garrow & Y.Hasenfeld The Phenomenon of Social Businesses: Some Insights from Israel; B.Gidron & I.Abbou Social Enterprise in Mixed-Form Fields: Challenges and Prospects; P.B.McInerney Chasing the Double-Bottom Line: Fair Trade and the Elusive Win-win; C.Child Mission Control: Examining the Institutionalization of New Legal Forms of Social Enterprise in Different Strategic Action Fields; K.Cooney Postscript The Legitimacy of Social Entrepreneurship: Reflexive Isomorphism in a Pre Paradigmatic Field; A.Nicholls

O autorze

INBAL ABBOU PhD Candidate at the Guilford Glazer School of Business Management in Ben Gurion University, Israel SONDRA N. BARRINGER PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Arizona, USA CURTIS CHILD Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Brigham Young University, USA KATE COONEY Assistant Professor at the Boston University School of Social Work, USA JACQUES DEFOURNY Full Professor of economics at HEC Management School, University of Liege, Belgium JOSEPH GALASKIEWICZ Professor of Sociology and has a courtesy appointment in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona, USA EVE GARROW Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work, USA JANELLE A. KERLIN Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Management and Policy at Georgia State University, USA PAUL-BRIAN MCINERNEY Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA ALEX NICHOLLS the first tenured Lecturer in social entrepreneurship appointed at the University of Oxford, UK MARTHE NYSSENS Full Professor at the Department of Economics of the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium STEVEN RATHGEB SMITH Nancy Bell Evans Professor of Public Affairs at the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, USA DENNIS R. YOUNG Bernard B. and Eugenia A. Ramsey Professor of Private Enterprise in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, USA