115 Citations
Making International Aid Effective: An Agenda for Aligning Aid to Social Business
- Economics, Business
- 2017
In the context of heightened interest in social business and a renewed focus on the performance of international aid, this article explores the role and place of aid in addressing poverty in relation…
Social enterprise sustainability revisited: an international perspective
- Business
- 2016
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine social enterprise sustainability by comparing recent international research with prior findings seeking to identify the important factors that…
The Open University ’ s repository of research publications and other research outputs Entrepreneurial dynamics and social responsibility : mapping an expanded intellectual territory Conference Item
- Business
- 2016
Objectives: (1) To provide a constructive critique of the interface between the entrepreneurial growth dynamics research and social responsibility literatures; (2) to explore opportunities for making…
Social Enterprise and Ethnic Minorities: Exploring the Consequences of the Evolving British Policy Agenda
- Political Science
- 2013
Recent years have seen successive British governments move social enterprise centre stage as a policy construct. Yet there remains little understanding as to whether this policy direction provides…
Entrepreneurial dynamics and social responsibility : mapping an expanded intellectual territory Conference or Workshop Item
- Business
- 2012
Objectives: (1) To provide a constructive critique of the interface between the entrepreneurial growth dynamics research and social responsibility literatures; (2) to explore opportunities for making…
Not just for profit : an empirical study of social enterprises in South Yorkshire
- Business, Economics
- 2011
This thesis seeks to investigate the development of social enterprises in the UK. Specifically, it analyses the determinants, nature and forms of legal structures of such organisations in South…
How Can Social Enterprise Address Disadvantage? Evidence from an Inner City Community
- Sociology
- 2010
This article examines the potential impact of social enterprise on disadvantage. The case study research involved participant observation over a 2-year period. Selection of cases was based on a…
What’s in a name? The construction of social enterprise
- Sociology
- 2010
Much attention has been paid globally to defining social enterprise as an organisational unit and explaining its recent emergence. However, beyond the notion of trading for a social purpose, there is…
Entrepreneurial dynamics and social responsibility: mapping an expanded intellectual territory
- Business
- 2009
Objectives: (1) To provide a constructive critique of the interface between the entrepreneurial growth dynamics research and social responsibility literatures; (2) to explore opportunities for making…
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Social Enterpriser and Entrepreneurial Marketing: Myth or Reality
- Business
- 2004
This paper presents some of the findings to emerge from a qualitative study of social enterprise in the UK. The findings discussed in this paper refer to the marketing activities of social…
The Emergence of Social Enterprise
- Economics
- 2001
Introduction: From Third Sector to Social Enterprise Part 1: Social Enterprises in the Fifteen EU Countries 1. Austria: Social Enterprises and New Childcare Services 2. Belgium: Social Enterprises in…
Managing and measuring social enterprises
- Business
- 2003
Its emphasis on performance measurement affords rare insights into some innovative techniques. Moreover, institutional and other theories are deployed to explore the reasons for innovation.... The…
The contribution of social enterprises to rural economies.
- Economics
- 2003
CEEDR assessed the social and economic impact of social enterprises to rural economies and communities and, in the process, develop and refine a methodology that can be used as an impact assessment…
Social Enterprise in Anytown
- Economics
- 2003
Social enterprises are businesses run for a social or environmental purpose, to deliver benefits to the community and not to generate profits for individuals or shareholders. Good examples range from…