Social enterprises
Subtitle: an organizational perspective
By: edited by Benjamin Gidron and Yekeskel Hasenfeld
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780230358799
Subjects: Nonprofit organizations; Social entrepreneurship
Description: Social enterprises have been a growing phenomenon around the world in the past decade. The authors of this volume argue that they represent a unique type of organization. By combining social goals with a business orientation, both critical for their mission and survival, they represent a breed of organization with two kinds of logic that in the past were not perceived as belonging under the same organizational roof. The business logic, with its focus on competition and private ownership, did not seem a fitting context in which to deal with social issues or problems. These are traditionally dealt with by a service logic that emphasizes a charitable, empathetic orientation. Putting these two orientations together calls for creative organizational solutions, especially if these organizations are to be stable and sustainable. Social Enterprises presents a first attempt to do that. An organizational perspective of social enterprises allows us to analyze issues such as their governing structure, their modes of operation and their marketing strategies, and begins to formulate some theoretical constructs on how these entities can survive and thrive. This volume provides not only a theoretical and empirical basis to examine these issues, but an international perspective as well.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: List of tables; title: List of figures; title: Foreword by / Steven Rathgeb Smith; title: Notes on contributors; title: Introduction / Benjamin Gidron & Yeheskel Hasenfeld; title: Theoretical approaches; title: The state of theory and research on social enterprises / Dennis R. Young; title: Social enterprises and social categories / Joseph Galaskiewicz & Sondra N. Barringer; title: Conceptions of social enterprise in europe : a comparative perspective with the united states / Jacques Defourny & Marthe Nyssens; title: Defining social enterprise across different contexts : a conceptual framework based on institutional factors / Janelle A. Kerlin; title: Empirical studies; title: Managing conflicting institutional logics : social service vs. market / Eve Garrow & Yeheskel Hasenfeld; title: The phenomenon of social businesses : some insights from israel / Benjamin Gidron & Inbal Abbou; title: Social enterprise in mixed-form fields : challenges and prospects / Paul-Brian McInerney; title: Chasing the double-bottom line : fair trade and the elusive win-win / Curtis Child; title: Mission control : examining the institutionalization of new legal forms of social enterprise in different strategic action fields / Kathryn Cooney; title: Postscript; title: The legitimacy of social entrepreneurship : reflexive isomorphism in a pre paradigmatic field / Alex Nicholls.