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.

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)