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Businesses with a Difference

Autor Laurie Mook, Jack Quarter, Sherida Ryan
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 mai 2012
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.
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ISBN-13: 9781442642645
ISBN-10: 1442642645
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 152 x 231 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: University of Toronto Press (Scholarly Pub)

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Notă biografică

Laurie Mook is an assistant professor in the School of Community Resources and Development at Arizona State University. Jack Quarter is a professor and co-director of the Social Economy Centre at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. He is the author of Canada's Social Economy and Crossing the Line. He edited How to Start a Worker's Co-op and co-edited Partners in Enterprise: The Worker Ownership Phenomenon. Sherida Ryan is a post-doctoral fellow, co-director of the Social Economy Centre and faculty member with the Adult Education and Community Development Program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

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PrefaceIntroduction: Businesses with a Difference (Laurie Mook, Jack Quarter, and Sherida Ryan)Chapter 1: Historic Changes in the Canadian Credit Union Movement (Ian MacPherson)Chapter 2: Non-Financial Co-operatives in Canada: 1955 to 2005 (Jack Quarter, Laurie Mook and Jennifer Hann)Chapter 3: Co-operatives: Demutualization and Mutualization (Jorge Sousa)Chapter 4: The Difference Culture Makes: The Competitive Advantage of Reciprocal, Non-Monetary Exchange (Ana Maria Peredo)Chapter 5: Community Business Development (Greg MacLeod)Chapter 6: Businesses with a Difference in Latin America: Argentina's Worker-recuperated Enterprises and Venezuela's Socialist Production Units (Marcelo Vieta, Manuel Larrabure, and Daniel Schugurensky)Chapter 7: Top-Down and Bottom-Up: Challenges for Engaging Social Economic Businesses in Rural and Small Town Renewal (Laura Ryser and Greg Halseth)Chapter 8: Land, Self Determination and the Social Economy in Fort Albany First Nation (Jean-Paul Restoule, Sheila Gruner, and Edmund Metatawabin)Chapter 9: Social Entrepreneurship: A Comparative Perspective (Roger Spear)Chapter 10: Exploring Social Transformation, Financial Self Sufficiency and Innovation in Canadian Social Enterprises (Tessa Hebb, Judith Madill, and Francois Brouard)Chapter 11: Education for Social Economy (John Whitman)