Description
After setting the stage with a thorough introduction, top scholars explore the different ways that social enterprises can be classified, nurtured, and understood. The book not only details the legal forms utilized in social enterprise and the social entrepreneurs involved in them, but it also addresses the reasons for the success or failure of these activities and looks at the ecologies in which they operate. The "zookeepers," such as governments and the regulatory regimes they establish, are compared and the important roles they play are examined. The volume concludes with a look at the future of social enterprise, providing suggestions for further research and implications for policy and practice.
This innovative and accessible book is recommended for students, researchers, policymakers, entrepreneurs and managers of social purpose organizations.
Contributors: F.O. Andersson, D. Brakman-Reiser, C.V. Brewer, F. Calo, J.A. Kerlin, J.D. Lecy, W. Longhofer, T. Monroe-White, E.A.M. Searing, J.-I. Soh, S. Teasdale, J.E. Tyler III, D.R. Young, S. Zook
About the Author
Edited by Dennis R. Young, Emeritus Professor, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University and Emeritus Professor, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, Elizabeth A.M. Searing, Assistant Professor of Public and Nonprofit Management, School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas and Cassady V. Brewer, Associate Professor, College of Law, Georgia State University, US
Reviews
'In The Social Enterprise Zoo, Young et al. have chosen an apt metaphor to describe the active space between pure market-based organizational forms and government. Social enterprise organizations, whether in the nonprofit or for-profit sectors or somewhere in-between, look a lot like animals in a zoo. Some reside in the trees, others swim in an aquarium, and others fly through and stay for only a short time. This volume does a masterful job of capturing this diverse social enterprise landscape, and the authors offer more than just a description of the zoo but a full examination of its purpose and function in society.'
--Peter Frank, Wingate University, US
'This volume can be considered a must for those who want to grasp a better understanding of social enterprise as it reaches out to a large and diverse number of readers encompassing aspects of what it can actually portray to one and to another, at the same time, managing a response of sound academics to express resourcefully and productively how this phenomenon plays out in the social civil society arena.'
--Jacqueline Butcher, International Society for Third-Sector Research and The Johns Hopkins University 2019
'This book by Professor Young and colleagues is a challenging one. It invites scholars, graduate students and practitioners to adopt/assume an imaginary and metaphoric way of thinking. The ''zoo'' metaphor is a very powerful theoretical tool that allows the reader to deal with the fundamental key-issues of nonprofit organizations and social enterprise management (governance, fund raising, life cycle, economic and organizational stability, social impact, resiliency, social innovation). The book is a masterpiece that lets us see the ''same'' in ''another'' way, from a different point of view, and that is - at the very end - the real task/goal of the scientific enterprise.'
--Andrea Bassi, University of Bologna, Italy
Book Information
ISBN 9781784716073
Author Dennis R. Young
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
