Social Economy Involvement in Public Service Delivery: Community Engagement and Accountability

Domenico, Maria Laura Caterina Di; Tracey, Paul; Haugh, Helen

doi:10.1080/00343400701874180

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“…A community venture is likely to face dialectical tensions that lead to conflicts because of differences in goals, ownership, governance and accountability among the actors (Di Domenico, Tracey, and Haugh 2009). While this study reveals that increased embeddedness better aligned the goals of the key actors, excessive embeddedness also limits the potential to exploit new ideas (Uzzi 1997;Zaheer and Venkatraman 1995).…”

Section: Mechanism 5: Involving New External Actorsmentioning

confidence: 79%

The embedding process of community ventures: creating a music festival in a rural community

Vestrum

2014

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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Community entrepreneurship is a potentially powerful mechanism to improve the well-being of rural communities. To mobilize inhabitants for collective action, an emerging community venture must be embedded within a local community. Yet, the embedding process of community ventures is not well understood. Accordingly, this study explores how a community entrepreneur (CE) embedded an emerging community venture into a rural community and simultaneously stimulated social change in the community. Drawing on a longitudinal case study of a CE who created a jazz music festival in a rural Norwegian community, a dynamic conceptual framework was developed that highlights the roles and mechanisms that support the embedding process. The CE promoted social change by introducing external impulses to the local community and assumed a bridging role between the villagers and external actors in the embedding process. Some villagers assumed local embedding roles, while several external actors assumed external embedding roles. I identified four strategies that were used to increase the embeddedness of the community venture in the rural community and one strategy that was used by the CE to deembed the venture in order to avoid constraints imposed by the local community. The importance of the different roles and mechanisms changed over time.

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Section: Mechanism 5: Involving New External Actorsmentioning

confidence: 79%

The embedding process of community ventures: creating a music festival in a rural community

Vestrum

2014

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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“…The social enterprise is ‘in line with an increasing convergence of public, private and non‐profit sectors’, and ‘as a result of this convergence an increasing number of hybrid organisations have developed that bring together business methods with the aim of producing social benefit’ (McQuilten and White, : 20). Not‐for‐profit organisations, charities and business organisations that operate in the public welfare field are all considered to be social enterprises (Kanter and Purrington, ; Di Domenico et al ., ; McQuilten and White, ). However, the meaning of the term ‘social enterprise’ is contested, as interpretations of social activities vary across contexts (Teasdale, ; Teasdale et al ., ; Doherty et al ., ).…”

Section: Precariousness In the Artistic Labour Market In The Ukmentioning

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Access Inequalities in the Artistic Labour Market in the UK: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Precariousness, Entrepreneurialism and Voluntarism

Samdanis

Lee

2017

European Management Review

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This paper investigates the roles played by social enterprise and social activism in mitigating access inequalities in the artistic labour market in the UK. Our analysis focuses on underpaid internships as a primary form of access inequalities. By employing critical discourse analysis, this study contrasts the discourses of entrepreneurialism and voluntarism advocated by the government and social enterprises, with the counter‐discourse of precarity advanced by social activists. The central argument is that precarity is not simply an innate characteristic of artistic labour, but is also a social construct and discourse which is directly linked to social class and the experience of less privileged creative workers.

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“…efficiency). There are substantial, growing literatures about joining-up local services (Dowling et al 2004, p. 6, 2004, Entwistle and Martin 2005, Glasby and Dickinson 2008, ICT enabled local government (Margetts 2006, McLoughlin andCornford 2006), and local service delivery by non statutory providers (Chapman et al 2007;Di Domenico et al 2009, Milbourne 2009). Comparatively little, however, has been written about the intersection of these concerns.…”

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‘You're Just Treating Us as Informants!’ Roles, Responsibilities and Relationships in the Production of Children's Services Directories

Walsh

Wilson

Baines

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Local Government Studies

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Local authorities in England are required to make directories of services available to practitioners working with children and young people. This is against a background of continuing reforms intended to ensure that services are joined-up around the needs and choices of children, young people and their families. There are high expectations that more of these services will be delivered by organisations from the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS), especially services for groups or communities that public sector agencies find hard to engage. This article reports and comments upon a regional study focusing on the production of children's service directories involving service providers and commissioners, as well as the producers of directories, in a series of facilitated workshop activities. The study highlights tensions between local authorities and service providers around how information about services is controlled, edited and accessed. We argue that current approaches to the provision of directories are unlikely to have the transformational effects predicted by policy makers. This is partly because local authorities' traditional position (supported by the prevailing technologies) has meant that they have tended to monopolise the roles and responsibilities which in turn maintains their control of directory content. They do so in the face of increasing dissent from new and established providers. Moreover, current models of service directories fail to meet the emerging information needs of a range of stakeholders including service providers, service commissioners and service users. In conclusion we propose some questions to improve visibility and governance in the creation and maintenance of service directories.

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Social Economy Involvement in Public Service Delivery: Community Engagement and Accountability

Cited by 47 publications

References 27 publications

The embedding process of community ventures: creating a music festival in a rural community

The embedding process of community ventures: creating a music festival in a rural community

Access Inequalities in the Artistic Labour Market in the UK: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Precariousness, Entrepreneurialism and Voluntarism

‘You're Just Treating Us as Informants!’ Roles, Responsibilities and Relationships in the Production of Children's Services Directories

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