List of Figures, Tables and Illustrations | p. viii |
Preface | p. xi |
Acknowledgements | p. xiii |
Why Address the Social Economy? | p. 1 |
Introduction | p. 2 |
The appeal of the social economy | p. 4 |
The association with social capital | p. 10 |
The assumption of the third sector | p. 11 |
The acclaimed benefits | p. 13 |
The agenda of this book | p. 16 |
The Geography of the Third Sector | |
What is in an Economy? | p. 23 |
Introduction | p. 24 |
The evolution of an economy | p. 24 |
The sectors of an economy | p. 28 |
Mapping an economy | p. 31 |
Clear boundaries are not real | p. 35 |
A different perspective - the people behind the venture | p. 37 |
Describing the Third Sector | p. 44 |
Introduction | p. 45 |
What is in the third sector? | p. 46 |
Labelling and defining the third sector | p. 48 |
The fourth sector | p. 63 |
In conclusion | p. 63 |
The Social Economy and Social Enterprises | p. 71 |
Introduction | p. 72 |
The emergence of the social economy | p. 73 |
What is the social economy? | p. 75 |
Social enterprises | p. 80 |
Other components of the social economy | p. 89 |
The scale of the social economy | p. 103 |
Conclusions | p. 104 |
The Ecology of the Third Sector | |
The Nature of the Third Sector | p. 111 |
Introduction | p. 112 |
Founders | p. 113 |
Objectives | p. 114 |
Legal structures | p. 116 |
Ownership | p. 121 |
Organisation and management | p. 123 |
Employment | p. 129 |
Volunteers | p. 133 |
Rewards | p. 135 |
Measures of success | p. 137 |
Summary | p. 141 |
Financing the Third Sector | p. 146 |
Introduction | p. 147 |
Finance for third sector organisations | p. 148 |
Third sector finance schemes | p. 152 |
Financial instruments | p. 162 |
Financial skills for the third sector | p. 173 |
Conclusions | p. 175 |
Social Capital | p. 179 |
Introduction | p. 180 |
The concept of social capital | p. 181 |
Definitions and different forms of social capital | p. 182 |
The advantages of social capital | p. 186 |
Social capital and economic performance | p. 188 |
Social capital, networks and entrepreneurship | p. 191 |
Social capital and social enterprise | p. 194 |
Social capital and regeneration | p. 195 |
The dark side of social capital | p. 200 |
Measuring social capital | p. 202 |
Does the social economy create social capital? | p. 206 |
Promoting the Third Sector | p. 214 |
Introduction | p. 215 |
Why the third sector is promoted | p. 215 |
Who is promoting the social economy | p. 218 |
Where, and how, the social economy is promoted | p. 220 |
Conclusions | p. 243 |
The Impact of the Third Sector: Benefits, Audits and Evaluations | p. 249 |
Introduction | p. 250 |
Benefits | p. 250 |
Audits of the third sector | p. 256 |
Evaluations | p. 262 |
Conclusions | p. 273 |
Afterword | |
Looking Forwards | p. 279 |
Different perspectives on the third sector | p. 280 |
Looking at the future of the third sector | p. 286 |
Index | p. 298 |
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