1st Edition

The Third Sector, Social Enterprise and Public Service Delivery

Edited By Madeline Powell, Frances Stokes Berry Copyright 2024
178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

Social enterprises are businesses with primarily social or environmental purposes designed to create value for the clients of the business, and to reinvest surpluses into the business or community. They serve as social innovation laboratories, and frequently collaborate with governments or other nonprofits to serve their communities and clientele. The chapters in this book discuss the... Read more

Introduction: Research insights into the third sector, social enterprise and public service delivery
Madeline Powell and Frances Stokes Berry

1.     Responding to failure: the promise of market mending for social enterprise

Erynn E. Beaton and Elena Dowin Kennedy

 

2.     Local government as a catalyst for promoting social enterprise

Donwe Choi and Jinsol Park

 

3.     To measure or not to measure?An empirical investigation of social impact measurement in UK social enterprises

Catherine Liston-Heyes and Gordon Liu

 

4.     Examining the impact of control and ownership on social enterprises’ public value creation using integrative publicness theory

Donwe Choi, Keon-Hyung Lee and Hyungjo Hur

 

5.     Institutional intermediaries as legitimizing agents for social enterprise in China and India

Janelle A. Kerlin, Saurabh A. Lall, Shuyang Peng and Tracy Shicun Cui

 

6.     Revenue diversification or revenue concentration? Impact on financial health of social enterprises

Shanshan Guan, Siyu Tian and Guosheng Deng

 

7.     The evolutionary trajectory of social enterprises in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Michal Placek, Gabriela Vacekova, Maria Murray Svidronova, Juraj Nemec and Gabriela Korimova

Biography

Madeline Powell is Lecturer of Marketing in the School for Business and Society at the University of York, UK. She is on the editorial board for public management review and is an associate editor for the social enterprise journal. Her research specializes in social enterprises, public management and marketing.

Frances Stokes Berry is Professor of Public Administration and Askew Eminent Scholar Chair at Askew School of Public Administration and Policy, Florida State University, USA. She is also a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and has served as President of the Network of Associated Schools of Public Policy, Affairs and Administration; and the Public Management Research Association. Her expertise is in public policy, policy and management innovation and diffusion, programme evaluation, strategic and performance management, and state policy.