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Shaping Social Enterprise: Understanding Institutional Context and Influence
Janelle A. Kerlin (Ed.)
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Description for Shaping Social Enterprise: Understanding Institutional Context and Influence
Hardback. 'Shaping Social Enterprise' helps researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and international development actors better understand various institutional paths of social enterprise development and where institutional strengths and weaknesses may be located. Editor(s): Kerlin, Janelle A. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: KJC; KJH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
`Shaping Social Enterprise' offers the first tested framework that helps identify institutional influences affecting social enterprise. For well over a decade, scholars and practitioners have known that social enterprise looks different in different contexts but few have attempted to understand why. Kerlin's work in this area is the first to consider the influence of large institutions such as government, economy, civil society, and culture on the development of social enterprise. This book provides an in-depth assessment of Kerlin's theoretically-based framework for understanding these institutional and other influences by means of quantitative analysis as well as qualitative critiques from eight countries ... Read more
`Shaping Social Enterprise' offers the first tested framework that helps identify institutional influences affecting social enterprise. For well over a decade, scholars and practitioners have known that social enterprise looks different in different contexts but few have attempted to understand why. Kerlin's work in this area is the first to consider the influence of large institutions such as government, economy, civil society, and culture on the development of social enterprise. This book provides an in-depth assessment of Kerlin's theoretically-based framework for understanding these institutional and other influences by means of quantitative analysis as well as qualitative critiques from eight countries ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Bingley, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781787142510
SKU
V9781787142510
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About Janelle A. Kerlin (Ed.)
Janelle A. Kerlin is Associate Professor in the Department of Public Management and Policy at Georgia State University, USA. Her research interests include comparative social enterprise, nonprofit commercial revenue, and international NGOs. She is an associate editor for the Social Enterprise Journal.
Reviews for Shaping Social Enterprise: Understanding Institutional Context and Influence
Editor Janelle A. Kerlin unites international contributors in social enterprise, social innovation, public governance, social entrepreneurship, public management, public policy, sociology, and social work. The first two chapters offer an introduction to the macro-institutional social enterprise framework and a quantitative assessment of Kerlin's macro-institutional social enterprise framework. Next, country chapters on South Korea, China, Romania, Spain, Chile, Sweden, Zambia, and ... Read more