Calculating social return on investment: Bookbridge learning center

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Subject area Social entrepreneurship. Study level/applicability Students in the middle or at the end of their undergraduate studies (BA level) in management and economics, graduate students (MA level). Case overview This case study deals with activities of the company, which has a direct social significance and social impact. Based on analysis of benefits and limitations of the stakeholders of the company, principles and tools of social return on investment (SROI) analysis, students should try to understand, how the company can ensure a stable market position and optimize its value proposition on the criterion of target stakeholders’ satisfaction in the implementation of social projects. Expected learning outcomes In this case study, students should learn to differ socially responsible companies and social entrepreneurs; be able to value and compare the costs and benefits of different kinds of companies’ activities for the stakeholders; be able to perform SROI analysis; strengthen their communication skills by summarizing the main arguments of articles from economic and business press, as well as from corporate sustainability reporting. Supplementary materials Bookbridge (2014): Impact Report 2013 – 2014, http://bookbridge.org/en/impact-downloads/SROINetwork(2012): A guide to Social Return on Investment, http://socialvalueuk.org/what-is-sroi/the-sroi-guide. Please contact your library to gain login details or email support@emeraldinsight.com to request teaching notes. Subject code CSS 3: Entrepreneurship.

Continuity and Change of the Islamic Intellectual Discourse in Indonesia Malay World

“…Meanwhile, a mystic -on the other hand -devotes his attention solely to God. (Stadtmann and Markova 2017) The emergence of the philosophical sufism in the archipelago was more articulate in the seventeenth century by two great scholars, Hamzah Fansuri (born and unknown death) These two figures, in general, are seen as Sufi "wujudiyah" (pantheistic ideas about God) that are different from orthodox Sufis and Sufic practices of Muslims in general. Their Sufistic ideas emphasize the nature of God's immanence in His creatures rather than His transient nature.…”