Workers' Cooperatives and Social Enterprise

Rothschild, Joyce

doi:10.1177/0002764208327673

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“…Crises in turn, we would expect, raise the profile of nonprofits. This connects to theories explaining nonprofit activity as reactions to state (Kendall and Brandsen 2009) and market failures (Rothschild 2009), both of which are likely to be exposed in and aggravated by crises, highlighting nonprofit models as an alternative. What is more, voluntary organizing and civic engagement are particularly prevalent and prominent under context conditions of crises.…”

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confidence: 52%

Social Innovation Ignored: Framing Nonprofit Activities in European News Media

Krlev

Lund

2020

Voluntas

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News reporting typically has a dual function: it mirrors what is going on in real life, but it also shapes how actors behave. Previous studies suggest that media presence, by way of shaping public and policy perceptions, influence how well nonprofits are able to raise funds and mobilize human resources. Yet, we are lacking insights into how the third sector is actually framed in the media, in particular with regard to innovation, which increasingly complements the more traditional functions of advocacy and service provision. To find out, we performed a longitudinal content analysis and an in-depth framing analysis on national and regional newspapers from nine European countries. The analyses demonstrate that third sector activities, especially those related to social innovation, are largely ignored. We find no systematic evidence that crises increase news attention to nonprofit activities. The third sector is becoming more newsworthy when it co-engages with government and business actors, but can benefit only little from this “positive glow”. We suggest how research on these matters can be taken forward, with a specific focus on the agenda-setting theory of mass media, the strategic management of nonprofit organizations, and collaboration in the context of social innovation.

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confidence: 52%

Social Innovation Ignored: Framing Nonprofit Activities in European News Media

Krlev

Lund

2020

Voluntas

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“…Other organizational models that have long held great appeal for those seeking to improve workplace and wider economic democracy include worker cooperatives and social enterprises (e.g. Cheney et al, 2014;Rothschild, 2009). Worker cooperatives might be expected to offer an appealing organisational form under the degrowth paradigm.…”

Section: The World Health Organisation's Sixmentioning

confidence: 99%

Preparing for the degrowth transition in healthcare: Understanding the challenges and opportunities

Hensher

2023

Degrowth

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Healthcare is not only an essential human right; it is one of the largest and most complex industries in the world. Maintaining access to effective healthcare while reducing harm to both human and planetary health is a central task for a successful voluntary degrowth transition. Safely transforming large, complex and often for-profit healthcare organisations and systems will pose significant challenges for degrowth planners and policymakers, yet this transition may also offer important opportunities to address hitherto intractable problems common to most high income healthcare systems. A range of organisational options for local, democratically controlled health services exist including smallscale local enterprises, cooperatives and social enterprises, yet most nations already run extensive public healthcare systems, suggesting that more straightforward nationalisation and public ownership may also be feasible. Meanwhile, preparations are required to improve healthcare system resilience against risks of collapse and unplanned, involuntary degrowth. This discussion of healthcare illustrates important tensions within the broader degrowth paradigm: a focus on organic, bottom-up re-localisation will frequently be in tension with the need for complexity and scale in several crucial aspects of modern healthcare delivery, risking economic dualism if not adequately resolved. There is no alternative to acknowledging the central role of the state in leading and driving a safe and effective degrowth transition in healthcare. Degrowth thinkers need to develop more pragmatic, practical policy visions if their theoretical models are to be capable of realisation.

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“…Thus, by reinvesting their economic surplus for social purposes, social enterprises have played an important role in addressing systemic social problems and creating social and public value, e.g., employment opportunities (Cooney, 2011), social inclusion (Teasdale, 2010), social service provision (Bidet, 2012), local community development (Munoz, Steiner, & Farmer, 2014), and democratic governance (Pestoff & Hulgård, 2016;Rothschild, 2009). In South Korea, in particular, many social enterprises emerged after the Asian financial crisis of 1997 (Park, 2013).…”

Section: The Social Orientation Of Social Enterprisesmentioning

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Social Enterprises’ Social Orientation: The Impact on the Organizational Commitment of Employees

Choi

Lee

Hur

2020

J. Public Nonprof Aff.

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This study investigates the relationship between social enterprises’ social orientation and the organizational commitment of their employees. The study also examines differences in organizational commitment between Millennial social enterprise employees and social enterprise employees of earlier generations. The findings from the study indicate that a social enterprise’s pursuit of social purpose, shared decision- making, and social performance are all positively associated with the organizational commitment of its employees. Additionally, the findings suggest that, in general, Millennials have a lower level of organizational commitment to their social enterprise employer than do earlier generations. Indeed, the organizational commitment of Millennials, we find, is primarily (and significantly) influenced only by shared decision-making. These findings contribute to the literature on social enterprise as well as to the literature on organizational commitment by providing insight into unseen aspects of social enterprise management from the perspective of employees. From a practical standpoint, these findings provide social entrepreneurs and managers of social enterprises with practical guidance on how to improve their employees’ organizational commitment.

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Workers' Cooperatives and Social Enterprise

Cited by 75 publications

References 15 publications

Social Innovation Ignored: Framing Nonprofit Activities in European News Media

Social Innovation Ignored: Framing Nonprofit Activities in European News Media

Preparing for the degrowth transition in healthcare: Understanding the challenges and opportunities

Social Enterprises’ Social Orientation: The Impact on the Organizational Commitment of Employees

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