Download or read book Social Enterprise and the Third Sector written by Jacques Defourny and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concepts of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship are rapidly attracting increased attention in academic spheres and from policy-makers, as well as field workers who are setting up new initiatives or reshaping their organizations. These concepts are perceived as defining innovative and dynamic responses to major global challenges in today’s societies. The debate about social enterprise is now world-wide, with lively exchanges between American and European scholars. However, the research and landscapes still differ significantly in different regions, and diversity also exists within specific regions such as Europe. This book presents the most comprehensive set of contributions reflecting the European-wide debate, but with frequent connections to developments in other parts of the world. This book is a result of work carried out by members of the EMES International Research Network, which is a pioneer in this field. Social Enterprise and the Third Sector will appeal to all researchers who focus on the third sector, social economy and social enterprise, to MBA and postgraduate students, as well as to intellectual social enterprise leaders and practitioners. It will soon become a key reference for all those who want to explore the full richness of these concepts and follow this important academic debate.
Download or read book Community Intervention written by Jan Marie Fritz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-13 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second and expanded edition of this award-winning book provides the most up-to-date and important efforts for improving the quality of life in communities around the world. It focuses on community improvements in relation to the interdisciplinary field of clinical sociology. The first part of the book includes updated analyses of important concepts and tools for community intervention. It discusses the importance of centrally involving community members in all phases of community development activities. Part II includes several completely new chapters and focuses on projects in a number of countries -- the United States, Brazil, South Africa, Canada, the Philippines and France. It covers topics such as establishing human rights cities; involving and empowering local communities; research in communities; the healthy cities movement; and climate change. This edition includes several new gender-focused chapters, addressing local level initiatives based on the recommendations of the Committee on the Elimination and Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), women in prison, and gender factors in climate risk. The appendices include profiles of outstanding practitioners and scholar-practitioners over the last 100 years. This edition includes contributions from well-known scholars and practitioners in clinical sociology and is of interest to sociologists, social policy makers, social workers, and sustainability researchers. The first edition of this book received the Distinguished Scholarly Book Award from the Clinical Sociology Division of the International Sociological Association.
Download or read book Droit de la finance alternative written by Jean-Marc Moulin and published by Bruylant. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La finance est en crise ; mais elle est indispensable à la vie des hommes en société. Cependant, il serait abusif de considérer "la finance" comme un tout homogène. En effet, loin de la finance conventionnelle qui fait la une de l'actualité, il existe une finance dite alternative qui tente de placer et de maintenir l'Homme au centre de son projet et à l'horizon de son ambition. Cet ouvrage, premier du genre, se propose de présenter sous forme d'études réalisées par des spécialistes du droit financier, les manifestations de cette finance alternative, les outils, instruments et techniques juridiques qui existent et qui permettent de concilier finance et humanisme. À travers l'analyse des critères de développement durable ou religieux appliqués à la finance, des monnaies alternatives, du microcrédit, de la notation extra-financière, du mutualisme et du coopératisme en finance, du crowdfunding, des fonds éthiques, du financement associatif, du financement alternatif de l'habitat ou du soutien des collectivités publiques aux entreprises, ce livre fait, en France comme en Espagne, au Royaume-Uni, en Grèce et au Canada, un tour d'horizon complet de ce segment du secteur financier souvent méconnu et qui offre néanmoins aux Hommes de réaliser leurs projets dans la perspective d'un mieux-être collectif. Pour rompre avec l'idée que la finance n'est que spéculation et prédation.
Download or read book Tackling Social Exclusion in Europe written by Roger Spear and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the result of an international study by leading economists and sociologists from across Europe and North America. The response of the new social economy (primarily voluntary and co-operative sectors) to social exclusion and employability in the context of crises of unemployment and the welfare state is of wide international concern. This book looks specifically at the growth of enterprises and initiatives whose primary aim is the integration of unemployed and disadvantaged people into work. A common framework has been used in each of the country studies, thus allowing an interesting international comparative perspective to be developed. There is considerable interest in how the third sector is changing internationally in response to rapidly changing work and welfare systems. By distilling international experience this book makes an important contribution to debates about new ways of addressing the central issues of unemployment and social exclusion of disadvantaged people in society.
Download or read book Local Economic and Employment Development LEED Social Enterprises written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2000-07-26 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report looks at how social enterprises are likely to develop, taking stock of existing social enterprises and highlighting the more advanced experiments.
Download or read book Social Enterprise in Western Europe written by Jacques Defourny and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last two decades, the quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise has been a central issue in a great number of publications. The main objective of the ICSEM Project on which this book is based was to show that the social enterprise field would benefit much more from linking conceptualisation efforts to the huge diversity of social enterprises than from an additional and ambitious attempt at providing an encompassing definition. Starting from a hypothesis that could be termed "the impossibility of a unified definition", the ICSEM research strategy relied on bottom-up approaches to capture the social enterprise phenomenon in its local and national contexts. This strategy made it possible to take into account and give legitimacy to locally embedded approaches, while simultaneously allowing for the identification of major social enterprise models to delineate the field on common grounds at the international level. Social Enterprise in Western Europe –the third volume in a series of four ICSEM-based books on social enterprise worldwide – will serve as a key reference and resource for teachers, researchers, students, experts, policy makers, journalists and others who want to acquire a broad understanding of the social enterprise and social entrepreneurship phenomena as they emerge and develop in this region.
Download or read book Anthropologica written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Land Law and Politics in Africa written by Jan Abbink and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a series of new studies on the dynamics of political and legal culture as well as of conflict management in contemporary Africa, taking inspiration from and honoring the scholarly contributions and impact of Prof. Gerti Hesseling (1946-2009) in African Studies.
Download or read book Choix Solidaires Dans Le March written by Council of Europe and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the papers discussed at the 2004 Forum on Socially Responsible Consumption and Finance Systems, Public Authorities and Citizens Commitment for Social Cohesion and supplements volume 12 in the series. Published by the Social Cohesion Development Division with the support of the Integrated Project "Responses to violence in everyday life in a democratic society"
Download or read book Les entreprises sociales d insertion par l conomique written by Claude de Jonckheere and published by Institut d'Etudes Sociales/Haute école de travail social. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La double appartenance de ces entreprises aux deux mondes économique et social - elles sont tiraillées entre les exigences de productivité et les nécessités de leur fonction sociale - engendre quelques paradoxes... L'originalité de l'ouvrage tient à ce que l'analyse repose sur des récits de vie recueillis auprès de personnes travaillant dans des entreprises sociales, ce qui permet de saisir comment ils construisent leur identité professionnelle, comment ils évaluent leurs compétences et la manière dont ils pourront les faire valoir sur le marché de l'emploi et dans leur existence, et comment ils souffrent ou non d'un déficit de reconnaissance sociale. Ces récits de vie permettent aussi de saisir en quoi l'identité de ces travailleurs est affectée ou capturée par divers types de discours normatifs sur le travail, l'exclusion, la société ou ce qu'est la vie digne.
Download or read book Anthropologica written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Enterprises written by Antonella Noya and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social enterprises straddle the border between the public and the private sector and break new ground in the allocation and management of economic resources, forming what the European Commission calls the "third system." While they all take a broadly
Download or read book Changing Nature of Work Employment and Workplace Relations written by Canadian Industrial Relations Association. Meeting and published by ACRI = CIRA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Les entreprises sociales d insertion par l conomie written by Sylvie Mezzena and published by Éditions ies. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les entreprises sociales jouent un rôle important dans l’insertion professionnelle et plus largement dans l’insertion sociale des personnes qu’elles accueillent. Elles visent le maintien ou le développement de leurs « compétences » et parfois produisent des effets « pervers », comme la chronicisation des processus de désaffiliation. Ces conséquences non souhaitables tiennent essentiellement au fait que les pratiques de ces entreprises sont traversées par des logiques sociales identiques à celles qui ont produit la vulnérabilité des personnes qui y travaillent. En effet elles sont tiraillées entre les exigences de productivité propres au monde de l’économie et la nécessité due à leur fonction sociale de s’intéresser à la vie des individus. L’originalité de l’ouvrage tient à ce que l’analyse repose sur des récits de vie recueillis auprès de personnes travaillant dans des entreprises sociales. Ainsi, une large place est donnée au point de vue de ces acteurs, ce qui permet de comprendre comment ils construisent leur identité professionnelle, comment ils évaluent leurs compétences et la manière dont ils pourront les faire valoir sur le marché de l’emploi et dans leur existence, et encore, comment ils souffrent ou non d’un déficit de reconnaissance sociale. Ces récits permettent aussi de saisir en quoi l’identité de ces travailleurs est affectée ou capturée par divers types de discours normatifs sur le travail, l’exclusion, la société ou ce qu’est la vie digne, et de montrer la créativité dont les personnes font preuve pour contrer les forces sociales qui tendent à les capturer. En se servant de l’activité productrice pour développer diverses formes de compétences chez les bénéficiaires et pour susciter chez eux un travail réflexif sur leurs expériences et leur vie, les entreprises sociales leur offrent une possibilité de développer des rapports positifs à eux-mêmes, notamment grâce au sentiment d’utilité et de reconnaissance sociale qu’ils retirent de cette activité. Cependant, la double appartenance de ces entreprises aux deux mondes économique et social n’est pas sans engendrer quelques paradoxes...
Download or read book Evolution quantitative et qualitative de l conomie des co ts sociaux r alis e gr ce aux unit s de production vocation de r insertion sociale et mesure de leur impact sur la cr ation d emplois written by Frédéric Cameo-Ponz and published by Luxembourg : Office des publications officielles des Communautés européennes. This book was released on 1986 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recoge: 1. Introduction - 2. Depouillement et resultats - 3. Analyse des economies de couts sociaux - 4. Clefs pour une nouvelle budgetisation - 5. Annexes.
Download or read book A Critical Review of Canadian American European Community Economic Development Literature written by Jean-Marc Fontan and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
