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.

Publisher: Routledge
Illustration: Y
Language: ENG
Title: The Economics of Social Responsibility
Pages: 00000 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2010-05-11
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780415465762
Lib Category: Entrepreneurship
Lib Category: Nonprofit organizations
Category: Business & Economics : Infrastructure
Category: Non-Classifiable : Non-Classifiable