{"product_id":"businesses-with-a-difference-9781442642645","title":"Businesses with a Difference","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBuilding on the popular 2010 collection Researching the Social Economy, Businesses with a Difference explores the challenges and opportunities faced by firms that seek a genuine balance between their social and economic objectives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  Introduction: Businesses with a Difference (Laurie Mook, Jack     Quarter, and Sherida Ryan)  Chapter 1: Historic Changes in the Canadian Credit Union Movement     (Ian MacPherson)  Chapter 2: Non-Financial Co-operatives in Canada: 1955 to 2005 (Jack Quarter,     Laurie Mook and Jennifer Hann)  Chapter 3: Co-operatives: Demutualization and     Mutualization (Jorge Sousa)  Chapter 4: The Difference Culture Makes: The Competitive Advantage     of Reciprocal, Non-Monetary Exchange (Ana Maria Peredo)  Chapter 5: Community Business     Development (Greg MacLeod)  Chapter 6: Businesses with a Difference in Latin America:     Argentina's Worker-recuperated Enterprises and Venezuela's Socialist Production Units     (Marcelo Vieta, Manuel Larrabure, and Daniel Schugurensky)  Chapter 7: Top-Down and Bottom-Up:     Challenges for Engaging Social Economic Businesses in Rural and Small Town Renewal (Laura Ryser and     Greg Halseth)  Chapter 8: Land, Self Determination and the Social Economy in Fort Albany First     Nation (Jean-Paul Restoule, Sheila Gruner, and Edmund Metatawabin)  Chapter 9: Social     Entrepreneurship: A Comparative Perspective (Roger Spear)  Chapter 10: Exploring Social     Transformation, Financial Self Sufficiency and Innovation in Canadian Social Enterprises (Tessa     Hebb, Judith Madill, and Francois Brouard)  Chapter 11: Education for Social Economy     (John Whitman)","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408364675415,"sku":"9781442642645","price":47.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442642645.jpg?v=1730502629","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/businesses-with-a-difference-9781442642645","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}