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Businesses with a difference : balancing the social and the economic / edited by Laurie Mook, Jack Quarter, and Sherida Ryan.

Other author/creatorQuarter, Jack.
Other author/creatorMook, Laurie.
Other author/creatorRyan, Sherida, 1949-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoToronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2012.
Descriptionviii, 272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Historic changes in the Canadian Credit Union movement / Ian MacPherson -- Non-financial co-operatives in Canada: 1955 to 2005 / Jack Quarter, Laurie Moore, and Jennifer Hann -- Leaving and entering the social economy: factors associated with the conversation of organizational form / Jorge Sousa -- The difference culture makes: the comparative advantage of reciprocal, non-monetary exchange / Ana María Peredo -- Community business development / Greg MacLeod ; with Mikel Cid -- Social businesses in twenty-first century Latin America: the cases of Argentina and Venezuela / Marcelo Vieta, Manuel Larrabure, and Daniel Schugurensky -- Challenges for engaging social economy businesses in rural and small town renewal / Laura Ryser and Greg Halseth -- Land, self-determination, and the social economy in Fort-Albany First Nation / Jean-Paul Restoule, Sheila Gruner, and Edmund Metatawabin -- Social entrepreneurship: a comparative perspective / Roger Spear -- Exploring social transformation, financial self-sufficiency, and innovation in Canadian social enterprises / Tessa Hebb, Judith Madill, and François Brouard -- Education for the social economy / John R. Whitman.
Abstract "Market-based social economy firms such as social enterprises, social purpose businesses, co-operatives, credit unions, and community economic development corporations aim to meet distinct social needs while making money. Do these types of businesses have the potential for growth in the modern economy? Are they destined to function only in areas where conventional firms cannot achieve a sufficient rate of return? Or will the role of social economy organizations change as businesses begin placing more emphasis on corporate social responsibility?
Abstract 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. Through international case studies, including comparative analyses, this innovative collection highlights the unique issues that must be addressed when associations are accountable not to investors and shareholders, but instead to ordinary people."--Pub. desc.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 2012406466
ISBN9781442642645 (bound)
ISBN1442642645 (bound)
ISBN9781442611474 (pbk.)
ISBN1442611472 (pbk.)

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