TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mook,Laurie
AU  - Quarter,Jack
AU  - Ryan,Sherida
TI  - Businesses with a Difference: Balancing the Social and the Economic 
SN  - 9781442694477
AV  - HD2769.2.C3 B85 2012eb
U1  - 306.30971 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Cooperative societies
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Canada
KW  - Economics
KW  - Sociological aspects
KW  - Nonprofit organizations
KW  - Social entrepreneurship
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Market-based social economy firms such as social enterprises, social purpose businesses, co-operatives, credit unions, and community economic development corporations aim to meet distinct social needs while making money. Do these types of businesses have the potential for growth in the modern economy? Are they destined to function only in areas where conventional firms cannot achieve a sufficient rate of return? Or will the role of social economy organizations change as businesses begin placing more emphasis on corporate social responsibility?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. Through international case studies, including comparative analyses, this innovative collection highlights the unique issues that must be addressed when associations are accountable not to investors and shareholders, but instead to ordinary people
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ER  -