Download or read book Th ories et pratiques du changement institutionnel en conomie solidaire written by Emmanuelle Besançon and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le changement institutionnel apparaît comme un élément essentiel dans la théorie de l'économie solidaire. Si celle-ci met en avant une conception du changement institutionnel comme changement démocratique (démocratisation du politique et de l'économique), nous pensons que celui-ci, compte tenu de sa complexité, ne peut être appréhendé à un niveau global. En partant de la manière dont il est analysé par les théoriciens de l'économie solidaire, nous avons cherché à repérer des formes concrètes, des pratiques participant au changement institutionnel, et à mettre en évidence les processus par lesquels celles-ci se diffusent dans l'économie. Aussi, nous montrons au travers de cette thèse que l'innovation sociale constitue un angle d'approche pertinent. Outre l'intérêt croissant dont elle fait l'objet actuellement, celle-ci permet de mettre l'accent sur le double processus de création et de diffusion de nouveautés, mais également sur la transformation du cadre institutionnel que les acteurs cherchent à impulser. La compréhension du changement institutionnel qui sous-tend l'économie solidaire peut alors se nourrir d'une analyse économique de type institutionnaliste. Cette proposition nous paraît d'autant plus fondée que l'économie solidaire, en tant que champ théorique récent, reste encore largement perçue comme un objet non économique. C'est donc dans cette perspective que s'inscrit cette contribution à l'analyse du changement institutionnel en économie solidaire.
Download or read book L conomie sociale et solidaire written by Jean-Louis Laville and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ouvrage de référence sur l'"autre économie" : le "tiers secteur" (associations à but non lucratif), l'économie sociale (entreprises coopératives et mutuelles) et l'économie solidaire (entreprises d'insertion, fonds éthiques, associations d'entraide, systèmes d'échange locaux, etc.). Un outil unique, car il combine la genèse historique de ce secteur, ses débats théoriques, l'analyse des pratiques actuelles, une approche comparative (expériences européennes et nord-américaines). A l'opposé des ouvrages anglo-saxons (qui cantonnent cette "autre économie" dans une sphère autonome sans incidence sur le reste de la société), ce livre montre comment l'ESS transforme l'ensemble du système économique et politique. Outil précieux de formation et d'information pour tous les acteurs du monde associatif, coopératif et mutualiste.
Download or read book Vers une th orie de l conomie sociale et solidaire written by David Hiez and published by Primento. This book was released on 2013-02-22 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La recherche en économie sociale et solidaire a véritablement pris son essor au début des années 2000. Elle a investigué de nombreux champs, de nombreux domaines d’activité, mais ne dispose pas d’une assise théorique solidifiée. Les querelles internes comme les questions de frontière délimitant le périmètre identitaire de l’ESS ou les intersections et différences entre économie sociale et économie solidaire nourrissent débats et incertitudes. C’est à cette élucidation que le présent ouvrage participe, autour de chercheurs représentants les courants internationaux majeurs, d’horizons interdisciplinaires différents. Il prend le partipris de l’économie sociale et solidaire comme compromis politique rassemblant l’économie sociale et l’économie solidaire. Fruit de réflexions collectives menées lors d’un séminaire à l’Université de Marnela-Vallée et d’un colloque à l’Université du Luxembourg, ce livre se présente comme une réflexion théorique systématique, animée par les chercheurs et les acteurs. C’est un point de départ qui pose le socle d’un corpus théorique en construction dans une dynamique d’aller-et-retours avec les pratiques qui l’ont fondé.
Download or read book L innovation sociale written by Emmanuelle Besançon and published by L'esprit économique. This book was released on 2013 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "L'innovation sociale est couramment définie comme toute nouveauté qui répond à un besoin individuel ou collectif et qui recrée les liens sociaux indispensables pour vivre en société : santé, éducation, environnement, partage, etc. Si l'innovation sociale interpelle, il n'en demeure pas moins que sa signification, les pratiques qu'elle recouvre et ses enjeux pour les acteurs ne sont pas toujours clairement perçus. L'objectif de cet ouvrage est de clarifier l'émergence, les différentes approches et les éléments de caractérisation en vue de proposer une définition ainsi qu'une méthodologie d'évaluation de l'innovation sociale en pratiques solidaires. Issue d'une recherche appliquée menée au sein de l'Institut Jean-Baptiste Godin, cette contribution s'adresse aussi bien aux universitaires, aux acteurs, aux têtes de réseaux, aux institutions publiques, qu'aux personnes de la société civile souhaitant structurer une parole politique, valoriser les éléments potentiellement porteurs d'innovation sociale, construire une politique publique ou plus largement comprendre les liens entre les pratiques solidaires et l'innovation sociale."--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Comprendre l conomie sociale et solidaire written by Nicolas Bárdos Féltoronyi and published by Editions Couleur livres asbl. This book was released on 2004 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apparue dès le début de l'histoire humaine, l'économie sociale et solidaire (ES) rejaillit au premier plan de l'actualité. Aujourd'hui, dans un contexte où le (néo)libéralisme occupe l'espace idéologique, les initiatives de l'économie sociale et solidaire se posent comme alternatives à une activité économique dominée par la logique capitaliste. Elles contribuent à démontrer que la solidarité peut aussi être économique et ouvrent la voie à une autre globalisation. L'ouvrage analyse la pluralité des doctrines économiques puis cherche à définir l'économie sociale et solidaire. Il montre quelles en sont les origines anthropologiques et historiques. Il identifie les différents acteurs et les divers modes de régulation qui président à son fonctionnement. Ensuite, il analyse les logiques d'organisation et de réseaux, la problématique du financement et de l'épargne d'ES et la question des banques sociales. Clair et accessible, son propos est illustré par la présentation de nombreuses organisations d'Economie sociale et solidaire en Francophonie.
Download or read book Pratiques et th ories de l conomie solidaire written by Anne-Marie Alcolea-Bureth and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depuis quelques années, l'économie solidaire a le vent en poupe. Cependant, entouré d'une "nuée d'imprécision", le terme économie solidaire est resté à l'état de notion. Cet ouvrage s'est assigné comme objectif d'approfondir sa connaissance théorique en proposant une conceptualisation. Celle-ci est construite à partir des pratiques des organisations d'économie solidaire et des analyses économiques et sociopolitiques du tiers secteur et de la nouvelle économie du territoire.
Download or read book Capitalism at a Crossroads written by Ali Ari and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-02-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the current capitalist system has been increasingly struggling to respond to the problems and uncertainties in the global economy, this book aims to identify the main economic, social, and ecological problems and discusses solutions for a more inclusive and sustainable economic system. Written by an international selection of contributors, it takes a wider perspective beyond classical orthodox economics. By doing so, this book covers a wide range of topics, such as global warming and climate change, food and energy scarcity, rising inequality and debt issues, health, ecological, economic, and political crises, degrowth, green new deals, solidarity, economy, artificial intelligence, technological change, smart solutions, and smart cities. Discussing these topics, the book presents answers to the question of whether the current capitalist system is viable and provides suggestions for a fair, inclusive, and modern economic system. Taking a comprehensive approach, the book will appeal to students, scholars, and researchers of heterodox and alternative economics.
Download or read book The French Nonprofit Sector written by Laura Nirello and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article deals with the literature on the French nonprofit sector (NPS). A preliminary part is devoted to presenting and discussing the characteristics that shape the approaches to this sector in France. We stress the strong influence of legal categories on the sector’s definition and, in this context, the importance of the status inherited from the 1901 Act on contracts of association. This raises a problem for a more analytical approach to the sector, because the diversity of the nonprofit organizations (NPOs) regulated under this Act risks being overshadowed. In this first part, we also underline the primacy accorded in France to the concept of the social economy, which has today become the social and solidarity economy (SSE), over that of the nonprofit sector. In the second part, the article outlines some landmarks in the history of the French NPS. French NPOs were for many years objects of suspicion, arbitrariness and repression on the part of the public authorities and this persisted until the 1901 legislation on contracts of association was enacted. However, this hostile context did not prevent the sector from having a richer existence than is sometimes admitted. This literature review also focuses on empirical studies of the sector, placing a particular emphasis on the more recent ones. These French studies basically adopt two types of approach. The first is concerned essentially with the NPOs and focuses its attention on their economic importance, whether measured in terms of financial resources, employment, or, less frequently, added value. The second approach investigates the kinds of individual participation the sector engenders by examining the various forms it takes, such as membership of NPOs or voluntary work. This review ends with the analysis of the challenges that NPS faces in a context characterized by the increasing constraints on public funding, changes in the nature of such funding with a substitution of contracts for subsidies, an increased competition among NPOs as well as between NPOs and for-profit enterprises. The article concludes that, despite the advances in research on the French NPS, some aspects—like formal volunteering and the role of voluntary associations—are still understudied, while others—like informal groups and informal volunteering—are almost totally ignored.
Download or read book Catharine Beecher written by Kathryn Kish Sklar and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1976 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A thoughtful, ingenious, speculative book, a pleasure to read and to reread. No one interested in the history of women and the family, and in Victorian civilization as a whole, can afford to miss it.” —Journal of American History
Download or read book The Third Sector in Europe written by Adalbert Evers and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors examine the voluntary & non-profit sectors in Europe. They discuss a number of issues regarding this 'third' sector.
Download or read book Innovation and the Social Economy written by Marie J. Bouchard and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social economy organizations such as cooperatives, non-profits, mutual benefit groups, foundations, and non-governmental organizations are uniquely positioned to respond not only to emerging social and economic needs, but also to new collective aspirations. In Québec, for instance, a pioneering social economy system has been developed that is recognized worldwide for its ability to foster innovative solutions to economic disparity and sustainability issues. In the wake of a global crisis that has emphasized the growing gap between economic and social concerns, what can other regions gain from this model? Through robust theoretical and in-depth empirical studies, this book offers the first opportunity to English-language readers to learn about the Québec experience of a social economy system. It takes stock of recent developments in the province relating to policy planning, governance, financing, local development, and legal frameworks. Innovation and the Social Economy also emphasizes this system’s potential for exploring alternative practices of production, consumption, and distribution that can foster social transformation.
Download or read book Social Economy written by Jean-Marc Fontan and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the social economy' from a variety of vantage points.
Download or read book Disaster risk reduction in school curricula case studies from thirty countries written by and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2012 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African women Pan Africanism and African renaissance written by Serbin, Sylvia and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Waking the Asian Pacific Co operative Potential written by Morris Altman and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2020-06-21 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Replete with case studies, Waking the Asian Pacific Cooperative Potential applies a novel theoretical framework to aid in understanding meaningful change in cooperative firms, mutual firms, collectives, and communes, focusing in particular on the underexamined Asia Pacific region. It explores the common, albeit competing, objectives of transformational cooperatives that deliver a range of social benefits and corporative coops where the cooperative exhibits the characteristics of a competitive investor firm. The book provides examples of successful cooperatives in eleven countries across the Asia Pacific and reviews the theoretical framework of cooperatives, including issues pertaining to socio-economic, politico-legal, and domestic and international factors. Waking the Asian Pacific Co-operative Potential provides early-career researchers and graduate students with a systematic resource of cooperatives in the Asia Pacific, highlighting core lessons from case studies regarding the ideal role of cooperatives in a modern economy and on the enabling factors of the role of the state, the market potential for scale-up, the mitigation of poverty, and civil society. Provides numerous case studies drawn from successful co-operative organizations across the Asia Pacific region Advances a theoretical framework to help readers access and understand the reasons for co-operative success in the Asia Pacific region Develops tools for practitioners to establish effective co-operatives and restructure them to optimal goals
Download or read book Meta organizations written by Göran Ahrne and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A growing number of organizations are meta-organizations; rather than individuals they have other organizations as their members. This comprehensive book explains, in-depth, the unique way in which meta-organizations function, how they differ from organizations with individual membership, and how they are crucial agents in the process of globalization. Göran Ahrne and Nils Brunsson combine the fields of organization theory and international relations in a new way. They portray a theory based on insights from organization studies that is also used to explain and understand international organizations. This theory creates new possibilities to analyze meta-organizations such as the EU and the UN and compare them to other meta-organizations such as national trade associations, sport federations and international non-governmental organizations. The authors point out striking similarities between all these organizations that have never been discovered before, including the conditions for membership, identity formation and decision-making. The book opens a whole new area for organizational research. It will be essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students interested in organization theory, globalization, politics and organizations, or international organizations.
Download or read book Willing Slaves Of Capital written by Frederic Lordon and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do people work for other people? This seemingly naïve question is at the heart of Lordon's argument. To complement Marx's partial answers, especially in the face of the disconcerting spectacle of the engaged, enthusiastic employee, Lordon brings to bear a "Spinozist anthropology" that reveals the fundamental role of affects and passions in the employment relationship, reconceptualizing capitalist exploitation as the capture and remolding of desire. A thoroughly materialist reading of Spinoza's Ethics allows Lordon to debunk all notions of individual autonomy and self-determination while simultaneously saving the ideas of political freedom and liberation from capitalist exploitation. Willing Slaves of Capital is a bold proposal to rethink capitalism and its transcendence on the basis of the contemporary experience of work.
