The Economics of Social Responsibility

The World of Social Enterprises
Herausgeber: Becchetti, Leonardo; Borzaga, Carlo

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 their members. This book will be of interest to postgraduate students, professionals working in the not-for-profit sector, and scholars interested in socially responsible economics. It is particularly suitable for seminars and workshops focusing on the management of not-for-profit organizations, sustainable development, and globalization.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 577g
• ISBN-13: 9780415465762
• ISBN-10: 0415465761
• Artikelnr.: 29926120

Autorenporträt

Leonardo Becchetti is Professor of Economics at the University of Rome 'Tor Vergata', Italy. Carlo Borzaga is Professor of Economics in the Faculty at the University of Trento, Italy, and President of the European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises (Euricse).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Leonardo Becchetti and Carlo and Carlo Borzaga 1. The
economics of social enterprises: an interpretive framework Carlo Borzaga
and Ermanno Tortia 2. The competitive advantages of social enterprises
Sara Depedri 3. The impact of social enterprises on output, employment, and
welfare Ermanno Tortia 4. From economic growth to sustainable development
Leonardo Becchetti and Giuseppe Mastromatteo 5. The provision of welfare
and general-interest services Luca Fazzi 6. Social enterprises and the
integration of disadvantaged workers Giulia Galera 7. The fair-trade debate
and its underpinnings Leonardo Becchetti 8. An empirical test of fair trade
Leonardo Becchetti and Marco Costantino 9. Microfinance: a frontier social
enterprise Leonardo Becchetti 10. Only the fittest survive? A test of the
sustainability of corporate social responsibility Leonardo Becchetti and
Rocco Ciciretti