Laurie Mook, Jack Quarter, Sherida Ryan

Businesses with a Difference

Balancing the Social and the Economic

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9781442611474
• ISBN-10: 1442611472
• Artikelnr.: 34982548

Autorenporträt

Laurie Mook is an associate professor in the School of Community Resources and Development at Arizona State University. Jack Quarter was a professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the 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.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: Businesses with a Difference (Laurie Mook, Jack Quarter, and
Sherida Ryan)
Chapter 1: Historic Changes in the Canadian Credit Union Movement (Ian
MacPherson)
Chapter 2: Non-Financial Co-operatives in Canada: 1955 to 2005 (Jack
Quarter, Laurie Mook and Jennifer Hann)
Chapter 3: Co-operatives: Demutualization and Mutualization (Jorge Sousa)
Chapter 4: The Difference Culture Makes: The Competitive Advantage of
Reciprocal, Non-Monetary Exchange (Ana Maria Peredo)
Chapter 5: Community Business Development (Greg MacLeod)
Chapter 6: Businesses with a Difference in Latin America: Argentina’s
Worker-recuperated Enterprises and Venezuela’s Socialist Production Units
(Marcelo Vieta, Manuel Larrabure, and Daniel Schugurensky)
Chapter 7: Top-Down and Bottom-Up: Challenges for Engaging Social Economic
Businesses in Rural and Small Town Renewal (Laura Ryser and Greg Halseth)
Chapter 8: Land, Self Determination and the Social Economy in Fort Albany
First Nation (Jean-Paul Restoule, Sheila Gruner, and Edmund Metatawabin)
Chapter 9: Social Entrepreneurship: A Comparative Perspective (Roger Spear)
Chapter 10: Exploring Social Transformation, Financial Self Sufficiency and
Innovation in Canadian Social Enterprises (Tessa Hebb, Judith Madill, and
François Brouard)
Chapter 11: Education for Social Economy (John Whitman)