Taking Care of Business Analyse the key opportunities and challenges facing leaders of social enterprise (including both paid managers and voluntary directors) with detailed reference to two organizational case studies.
INTRODUCTION
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DARING TO CARE
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BACKUP
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THE MELTING POT, EDINBURGH
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THE GLASGOW WOMEN’S LIBRARY, GLASGOW
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CHANGING THE WORLD & SAVING THE PLANET
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BALANCING MULTIPLE BOTTOM LINES
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LEADING THE WAY
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WORKS CITED
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Introduction We are living in the midst of all-encompassing world-wide social and political change, where many people and communities challenge, resist, and modify inherited ways of living. . . . Our fragmented institutions, each going their own ways- in the family, the economy, the government, or in world-wide society – are finding that existing patterns of governance, that is, ways to be part of a whole, no longer work, and that new forms of organisation must be found. (Leonard J. Duhl, 2000: 1) Some of these new forms of organisation can be found in the emerging social enterprise movement. As Antonia Swinson, Chief Executive of the Scottish Social Enterprise Coalition, writing in ‘Good Company’ - Scotland’s magazine for socially enterprising people – states, Social enterprises are engines of innovation, finding fascinating new solutions to meeting social need, and creating new markets, often where no one thought they could ever work. It just takes a different way of looking at opportunities and what people can achieve given half a chance. (Swinson, 2008)
MKTB540A2 Susan Pettie 21/05/2010 1/14 Pages