Businesses with a difference Quarter, Jack; Mook, Laurie; Ryan, Sherida
Businesses with a difference,
c2012, 20121231, 2012, 2012-05-25, 2012-12-31, 20120101
eBook
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.
Pensions at work Quarter, Jack; Carmichael, Isla; Ryan, Sherida
Pensions at work,
c2008, 20080524, 2008, 2008-01-01, 2008-05-24, 20080101
eBook
Pension funds have come to play an increasingly important role within the new economy. According to Statistics Canada, in 2006, trusteed pension funds in Canada had $836 billion of assets and ...represented the savings of 4.6 million Canadian workers.Pensions at Workis a unique collection of papers that uses a labour perspective to deal with the socially responsible investment of pension funds. Featuring leading Canadian and international scholars, it builds on existing scholarship on socially responsible investment and on the growing interest of the Canadian labour movement in joint trusteeship.
What is unique about this collection is that it synthesizes three distinct themes - socially responsible investment, pension funds, and labour studies. The contributors address an array of critical issues such as gaps in the education of union trustees of pension funds, the impact of human capital criteria on shareholder returns, the influence of corporate engagement upon corporate performance, and the nature of public-private partnerships (PPPs). Although the essays in Pensions at Work all address the nexus between socially responsible investment, pension funds, and unions, each looks at a particular manifestation of that relationship through a different disciplinary lens. This collection moves the discussion to pension funds in which union representatives are also trustees, a relatively new approach that will be of great interest to institutional investors, the labour movement, and instructors in labour studies programs.
Researching the social economy Mook, Laurie; Quarter, Jack; Ryan, Sherida
Researching the social economy,
c2010, 20101201, 2010, 2010-01-01, 20100101
eBook
Researching the Social Economyenriches our understanding of how this important cluster of organizations contributes to Canadian society in both economic and social terms, and lays the groundwork for ...future study.
Supported Social Enterprise Chan, Andrea; Ryan, Sherida; Quarter, Jack
Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly,
04/2017, Letnik:
46, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
This article presents a study of supported social enterprise, a hybrid organization that not only either employs or trains members of marginalized social groups, often on disability pensions and ...social assistance, but also has social welfare characteristics. These organizations sell services and goods, like other forms of social enterprise, but rely heavily on external support from government programs, foundations, and a parenting nonprofit. The article presents an empirical study using a survey and interviews of participants in these organizations from Ontario, Canada, and notes that even though they earn minimally from work in these organizations, they view the experience positively. The final discussion centers on the concept of supported social enterprise and raises the question as to whether such organizations should be viewed primarily as a form of social enterprise or as a modified form of social welfare organization.
This article undertakes a critique of social return on investment (
SROI
), combining the existing research literature with an analysis of six case studies of supported social enterprises employing ...people with disabilities and other challenges that affect their access to the conventional labor market. The critique of
SROI
focuses on its positivist roots and its emphasis on one number, the
SROI
ratio. It also discusses the technical challenges in producing that number, including concerns about its reliability. The article presents the stakeholder impact statement, an approach that is rooted in interpretivism and attempts to understand the impact of enterprises through the eyes of multiple stakeholders. Unlike
SROI
, which is a supplement to conventional accounting statements, the stakeholder impact statement integrates financial and social impact data, thereby placing them on the same level of importance.
This chapter describes a study undertaken to identify Canadian nonprofit organizations that meet a broad definition of the social economy, as outlined in the first chapter of this book, and that rely ...on the Internet to meet their primary organizational objectives. Although face-to-face nonprofit enterprises are beginning to turn to the Internet to enhance their outreach and public profile, organizations that rely on information technology for their work are rarely included in any mapping of the social economy sector. The purpose of this exploratory research was to find and shed light on these online organizations in order to begin to
