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Freer Spreckley

Essential Social Enterprise

Freer Spreckley

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English
Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd
21 October 2021
Economics; Environmental economics; Welfare economics
Social Enterprise is a worldwide movement of alternative organisational and business models, but it is sometimes difficult to know precisely the meaning of the term.

In Essential Social Enterprise, Freer Spreckley traces the origin and development of social enterprise and shows how, over time, both the term and values have been altered and sometimes misinterpreted.

The book praises the growth of supplementary and essential initiatives that widen the support for social enterprise influencing traditional business infrastructure mechanisms.

The best known is the triple bottom line of Profit, People and Planet that has become the default criteria for corporate social responsibility. The book's central thesis is that it is excellent to see the growth of complementary social tools and different social enterprise applications, but questions whether these are displacement activities avoiding essential system change to corporate ownership and control. The book argues that the original ideas of social enterprise are urgently needed now. We should go beyond the pleasantries of putting the word 'social' in the title and assuming that means change. Freer puts forward a convincing, clear and radical interpretation in defining Social Enterprise and argues that it is a powerful solution to some of today's problems.

These, he suggests, are inequality, environmental degradation, poverty and the fetish of exclusivity and puts forward the solutions of a common ownership entity, governed democratically, with integrated financial, social and ecological guiding principles and combined performance measurement indicators and a planning and evaluation method.

The book suggests these changes are of our time and urgently need to be applied by organisations and businesses to create system change and avert a social and environmental decline. Furthermore, Freer argues that organisations need to be regenerative, going beyond sustainability and reversing the tread of societal inequality and ecological catastrophe in how they are owned and controlled, operate and behave.

The book proposes that governments worldwide enact legislation to create a 'Social Enterprise Act' to define and hasten new organisations and enterprises to help regenerate society and the environment.
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Imprint:   Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 12mm
Weight:   299g
ISBN:   9781839757068
ISBN 10:   183975706X
Pages:   198
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Preface vii 1 Introducing a new Idea 1 2 The Popularity of Social Enterprise; or when we all got confused 20 3 The Evolution of Social Enterprise 31 3.1 Types of Social Enterprises 36 4 Values to Drive Objectives and Actions 41 5 Solutions to our Problems 54 6 Defining Social Enterprise 72 6.1 Value One - Common Ownership 77 6.2 Value Two - Democratic Governance 79 6.3 Value Three - Financial Viability 83 6.4 Value Four - Social Wealth Creation 85 6.5 Value Five - Environmental Responsibility 87 6.6 Value Six - Social Accounting and Audit and the Triple Bottom Line 90 7 The Organisation of Social Enterprise 95 7.1 Common Ownership 98 7.2 Governance Body 101 7.3 Management and Workgroups 108 7.4 Self-Management 113 7.5 Meetings and Decision-Making 116 7.6 Planning 118 8 Social Accounting and Audi 121 8.1 Measuring Combined Results 141 9 Ownership is Economics 147 10 Being Legal is Being Powerful 165 11 Reflection and Renewal 173 11.1 A call for Action 176

Freer Spreckley, in 1978 coined the term Social Enterprise and defined the triple bottom line in a book entitled Social Audit - A Management Tool for Co-operative Working in 1981. Since then, Freer has actively supported Social Enterprise as an advisor, trainer and consultant working in over 60 countries worldwide. During this time, he has also worked extensively in international development and regeneration and published many manuals and toolkits on various related topics. In addition to paid work, Freer has been active in setting up several initiatives. In 1971 he established the Choler Cure Clinics in rural Bangladesh that helped establish oral rehydration as a globally acceptable treatment for dehydration. In 1974, along with others, he set up a commune in Yorkshire, which is still fully occupied and wrote a book about the experience called Commune on the Moors - A Story of Lifespan. In 1978, he set up Beechwood College as a worker co-operative educational centre. Freer remains active in his local community and still supports groups set up social enterprises.

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