Seeking Success in Social Enterprise: Lessons from Business and Civil Society Organizations in Iberoamerica (David Rockefeller/ Inter-American Development Bank) - Softcover

Sekn, Social Enterpri; Austin, James E.; Gutierrez, Roberto; Ogliastri, Enrique; Reficco, Ezequiel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674021231 ISBN 13: 9780674021235

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2006

Synopsis

What makes civil society organizations effective performers? What are key practices for businesses creating social value activities as a part of their overall operations? Business leaders have long analyzed corporate practices; this book represents an innovative analysis of how one does good in an effective and strategic manner. This book aims to enable social and business leaders to gain a greater understanding of how to achieve high performance in terms of social value creation.

Social Enterprise Knowledge Network is a research partnership encompassing eleven leading management schools―nine in Latin America, one in Spain, and Harvard Business School―with a demonstrated capacity to produce high-quality, original, field-based research in Latin America.

Based on the results of a two-year research process on how social and business organizations in Iberoamerica achieve superior social performance, Effective Management of Social Enterprises presents the most comprehensive and in-depth analysis of such practices ever undertaken in this region. This practitioner-oriented book also enriches the literature on organizational performance, social enterprise, and corporate social responsibility, and on Iberoamerica more generally.

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About the Authors

James E. Austin is Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration and Chair of the Initiative on Social Enterprise at the Harvard Business School.

Ezequiel Reficco is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Business School.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674021231
• ISBN 13: 9780674021235
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 150