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The economics of social responsibility : the world of social enterprises / edited by Leonardo Becchetti and Carlo Borzaga.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge advances in social economics ; 15.
- Routledge advances in social economics The economics of social responsibility
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nonprofit organizations.
- Entrepreneurship.
- Social responsibility of business.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (271 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2010.
- Milton Park, Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book offers a rethinking of the burgeoning research on not-for-profit organizations and socially responsible economics. Adopting a comparative approach, the chapters explore and reinterpret the impact of social enterprises on the provision of general-interest services, work integration, microfinance, and fair trade, and show how these enterprises form the hub of an emerging economy of social responsibility. The book provides a new interpretation of social enterprises as entrepreneurial organizations that pursue social objectives and are successful due to the non-self-seeking motives of
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Abbreviations and acronyms; Introduction; 1 The economics of social enterprises: An interpretative framework; 2 The competitive advantages of social enterprises; 3 The impact of social enterprises on output, employment, and welfare; 4 From economic growth to sustainable development; 5 The provision of welfare and general-interest services; 6 Social enterprises and the integration of disadvantaged workers; 7 The fair- trade debate and its underpinnings; 8 An empirical test of fair trade
- 9 Microfinance: A frontier social enterprise10 Only the fittest survive?: A test of the sustainability of corporate social responsibility; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-96652-8
- 1-136-96653-6
- 1-282-62945-X
- 9786612629457
- 0-203-85102-1
- 9780203851029
- OCLC:
- 642661765
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