Work Integration Social Enterprises in Switzerland

Adam, Stefan; Aviles, Gregorio; Ferrari, Domenico; Amstutz, Jeremias; Crivelli, Luca; Cavedon, Enrico; Gafner, Anja; Greppi, Spartaco; Schmitz, Daniela; Wüthrich, B; Zoebeli, Daniel

doi:10.1515/npf-2016-0014

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“…Social Enterprises are unique in their concepts and practices. On the one hand, so far, there is no unified definition of this type of organization; on the other hand, practices have become very diverse, adapting to the maturity of the internal organization and its ecosystem in each country where Social Enterprises are established (Adam et al, 2016;Anastasiadis, 2016;Borzaga and Depedri, 2012;Claeyé, 2016;Cooney, 2011;Spear et al, 2009;Yu, 2011). Likewise, what happened in Indonesia, where it is recognized that the ecosystem is formed and represented by a variety of stakeholders, including investors, educational and government institutions, advisors, and supporting organizations (ANGIN, 2019), but in reality, each Social Enterprise interprets its business concept in various ways.…”

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Between Mission and Money: A Lesson Learned From Social Enterprise Identity

Wijayanti,

Narsa

2023

JAM

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Social Entrepreneurship is a popular business model that proposes entrepreneurship to solve social and environmental problems by selling products or services. In Indonesia, the development of the number and awareness of entrepreneurs supported by the Social Entrepreneurship ecosystem is growing. However, due to the need for a unified definition of 'Social Entrepreneurship' and the slow pace of formal recognition from the government, organizations have developed with mixed practices and results. This study aims to describe the practice of Social Enterprise through the disclosure of corporate identity. Using Identity and Stakeholder Theory, this study explores the five characteristics of identity: mission, activity, governance, performance, and accountability. This multiple case study uses 10 Indonesian Social Enterprises. Data was collected through interviews and speeches in webinars coupled with documentation studies of uploaded narratives, photos, and videos on the company's official website, carried out from March to June 2023. Data analysis uses Nvivo to find themes from various Social Enterprise identity criteria groups. The results show that Social Enterprise has a unique mission and activities that carry a social value where community, empowerment, welfare and sustainability are more emphasized than profit. Institutional commitment as a Social Enterprise is proven by disclosing the impact achieved through impact reports, impact achievement profiles, SDG achievements, or articles in the news column. However, Financial performance is rarely disclosed, even though several companies have disclosed the distribution of their profits. Accountability practice in formal and informal to its stakeholder. This study provides guidelines for how companies disclose and be accountable for their identity as a Social Enterprise.

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Section: Literature Review Social Enterprise In Indonesiamentioning

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Between Mission and Money: A Lesson Learned From Social Enterprise Identity

Wijayanti,

Narsa

2023

JAM

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“…According to the project "Finding Australia's Social Enterprise Sector (FASES)", there are at least 200 000 Australian social enterprises (Barraket, Mason and Blain, 2016). There are approximately 270,000 social enterprises (Levie, 2018), even though social enterprises are relatively new in Switzerland compared to its neighbouring countries (Adam, Avilés, Ferrari, Amstutz, Crivelli, Enrico, and Zoebeli, 2016). Singapore too has around 401,000 social enterprises (Wong, 2017), and this sector has grown by 32 per cent over the past year, with 401,000 registered social enterprises -up from 303,000 enterprises in 2016 (Singapore Centre for Social Enterprise on 19 th August 2017).…”

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The Role of Social Entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka

Nimeshi,

Surangi

2023

Kelaniya J Manage

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In recent years, there has been a growing body of literature on social entrepreneurship, yet researchers in developing countries have not adequately explored this field. This qualitative study delves into the role of social entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka, examining how they operate and the factors influencing their choices. Grounded in social reality and aligned with social constructionist philosophy, the research engaged ten selected social entrepreneurs through interviews and applied thematic analysis to interpret the data. The findings reveal valuable insights into the strategies employed by social entrepreneurs in starting and managing their enterprises. Individual and social factors such as family background, experience, social networks, and religion significantly influence the decision to become a social entrepreneur. The study's developed model bridges subjective experiences of social entrepreneurs with existing literature, contributing to a deeper understanding of how social entrepreneurship is practiced and constructed.

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Contesting Neoliberal Reform of Statutory Social Work in Switzerland and England: Discretionary Spaces, Collective Resistance and Ethico-Political Professionalism

Moth,

Schilling,

Neuhaus

et al. 2024

The British Journal of Social Work

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This article reports findings from a qualitative study of the impacts of, and practitioner responses to, neoliberal social work reforms in Switzerland and England. The article highlights commonalities, and contrasts, in how neoliberalism has restructured social work across the two jurisdictions. Social workers responded to neoliberalisation in a variety of ways, often through adaptation but sometimes by challenging reforms. This resistance primarily involved individualised forms of agency promoting social justice in practice, such as carving out discretionary spaces within casework. However, in Switzerland, collective agency also emerged in the form of anti-cuts campaigning alongside service users. The literature tends to counterpose these micro and macro levels of agency, theorising discretion and resistance to the contradictions and value tensions generated by neoliberal reform as largely a product of practitioners’ individual ethical dispositions. However, we argue that enduring legacies of social justice values and relationship-based practices within social work institutions are also relevant in shaping how social workers navigate reforms. These enduring features offer institutional and normative resources of solidarity which can strengthen the possibilities for practitioner agency, at both individual and collective levels, to resist neoliberal reconfigurations and promote more liberatory and transformative forms of practice. We call this orientation ‘ethico-political professionalism’.

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Work Integration Social Enterprises in Switzerland

Cited by 5 publications

References 7 publications

Between Mission and Money: A Lesson Learned From Social Enterprise Identity

Between Mission and Money: A Lesson Learned From Social Enterprise Identity

The Role of Social Entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka

Contesting Neoliberal Reform of Statutory Social Work in Switzerland and England: Discretionary Spaces, Collective Resistance and Ethico-Political Professionalism

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