Format:
Online-Ressource (302 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9781784410056
Series Statement:
Advances in Public Interest Accounting v.17
Content:
This book addresses the issues and functioning of accounting and accountability for social and non-profit organizations. It presents research papers that address the limitations of conventional accounting, the meaning of accountability, and the potential of social and environmental accounting for these organisations
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Front Cover; Accountability and Social Accounting for Social and Non-Profit Organizations; Copyright page; Contents; List of Contributors; Foreword; References; Part I: Introduction; The Rise of Social and Non-Profit Organizations and Their Relevance for Social Accounting Studies; The Emergent Social and NPOs; A Developing Global Role; The Rise of the Cooperative Sector; Accountability for Social and NPOs; The Dual Accountability Challenge; Developing the NPO Social Accounting Project; Overview of the Book; Part I: The Non-Profit Sector
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Part II: Accounting and Accountabilities for the Non-Profit SectorPart III: Social Accounting for the Non-Profit Sector; How to Read the Book; Notes; Acknowledgements; References; Part II: The Non-Profit Sector; Towards a European Conceptualization of the Third Sector; Introduction; Diversity of the Third Sector's Historical Roots; Diversification of Organizational Forms within the Third Sector; Tools for Conceptualizing a Third Sector with Blurred Frontiers; Overlap between the Third Sector and Market; Overlap between the Third Sector and State; Overlap between the Third Sector and Community
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Broad Changes in the Political LandscapeBeyond Change, Permanent Features: Volunteering and Values; Service Provision and Advocacy: Avoiding a Zero-Sum Perspective; Need for Greater Accountability by TSOs, NPOs, NGOs, Co-ops and Social Enterprises; Notes; References; Appendix: Country Overviews; Belgium; Concepts; Positive Effects of Public Recognition and Promotion; The Rise of Social Entrepreneurship; Challenges Ahead: Tensions and Traps; References; Finland; Boundaries and Importance of the Finnish Third Sector; The Role of the Third Sector; Present Expectations for the Third Sector
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ReferencesFrance; Third Sector Images and Concepts; Recent Trends; Public Policies Supporting the SSE; The SSE Act: Towards a Legal Basis for the SSE; New Academic Networks; The New Legal Status of 'Collective Interest Cooperative Society'; The Controversial Emergence of the Social Entrepreneurship Movement; SSE: Solutions to the Crisis or Victims of Austerity; Notes; References; Germany; Historical Developments; The Presence: Blurred Sectorial Borders; Third Sector Concepts in the General Public and the Academic World; Major Recent Trends in Germany; References; Italy
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Growth of the Italian Third SectorOrganizational Forms and Fields of Activity; Heterogeneity and Diversification of the Third Sector; Research; Notes; References; Norway; Images and Concepts; Recent Trends; Decline of the Social Movement Tradition; Recent Changes at the Local Level; Increasing Marketization; Relations with the Public Sector; Recent Changes in Third Sector Images and Concepts; Notes; References; Poland; Key Figures; Number of Organizations; Employment; Financial Base; Socio-Political Considerations; Roles of TSOs; From Coerced Membership to Voluntary Participation
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Networks, Legitimacy and Corruption
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781784410049
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Accountability and social accounting for social and non-profit organizations Bingley [u.a.] : Emerald, 2014 ISBN 9781784410056
Language:
English
Keywords:
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