scholarly journals Social justice on the margins: the future of the not for profit sector as providers of legal advice in England and Wales

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilary Sommerlad ◽  
Peter Sanderson
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Legal Advice ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
The Future

scholarly journals A Third Sector-Led Economic Model: Scopes of Islamic Entrepreneurship

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Mahmudul Alam ◽  
Rafiqul Islam Molla
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Economic Model ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Welfare Programs ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Wealth Concentration ◽  
Social Welfare Programs ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Market State

Private (first sector) and public (second sector) sector economics, both individually and jointly, have failed to ensure the wellbeing of human societies on the national and global levels. In response, social enterprise (third sector) economics, which features cooperatives and not-for-profit social enterprises, foundations (awqāf), and similar undertakings, has emerged as a make-up strategy in an attempt to counter the deficiencies of the market-state economic model. However, there is a strongly felt belief that the third sector needs to be broadened and mainstreamed in order to include both not-for-profit and for-profit businesses blended with social justice (via provision of such social welfare programs as corporate social responsibility) so that they can play a major role in poverty alleviation and economic growth. Islamic entrepreneurship, which is basically a community-centric mode of business initiative, is an antidote to the problem of intolerable economic and social dualism, a natural strategy against all forms of capitalist exploitation and attempts to control a nation’s resources. Moreover, it is the natural model for solving economic inequity, wealth concentration, and social divides. Based on its potential and using examples from Bangladesh and Malaysia, we present the Islamic style of entrepreneurship. We contend that this particular style is the most efficient and desirable one for effectively widening and mainstreaming community-centric third sector economics so that it can ensure development with equity and social justice especially in developing countries.

scholarly journals Performance in the Chaordic Age: By Design or By Destiny?

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 1683-1689
Author(s):  
Raymond L ◽  
Forbes Jr
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Environmental Uncertainty ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Structural Form ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Current Thinking ◽  
The Future ◽  
Governmental Institutions

This paper discusses the challenge of performance in an age characterized by high levels of both organizational and environmental uncertainty. Today, business, not-for-profit, and governmental institutions all find themselves besieged by difficult-to-predict periods of disorder and relative certitude. A new structural form, called the chaordic organization, has arisen as one means of operating in such a turbulent and indeterminate environment. This article will consider the chaos-certainty question, examine the concepts of performance and potential, deliberate whether performance can be influenced by calculated design measures, and look at current thinking related to motivation and its relationship to organizational performance.  Additionally, a model of performance efficacy will be introduced, lessons learned provided, implications for the future presented, and a look offered at what might come next.

A Third Sector-Led Economic Model

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafiqul Islam Molla ◽  
Md. Mahmudul Alam
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Economic Model ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Welfare Programs ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Wealth Concentration ◽  
Social Welfare Programs ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Market State

Private (first sector) and public (second sector) sector economics, both individually and jointly, have failed to ensure the wellbeing of human societies on the national and global levels. In response, social enterprise (third sector) economics, which features cooperatives and not-for-profit social enterprises, foundations (awqOEf), and similar undertakings, has emerged as a make-up strategy in an attempt to counter the deficiencies of the market-state economic model. However, there is a strongly felt belief that the third sector needs to be broadened and mainstreamed in order to include both not-for-profit and for-profit businesses blended with social justice (via provision of such social welfare programs as corporate social responsibility) so that they can play a major role in poverty alleviation and economic growth. Islamic entrepreneurship, which is basically a community-centric mode of business initiative, is an antidote to the problem of intolerable economic and social dualism, a natural strategy against all forms of capitalist exploitation and attempts to control a nation’s resources. Moreover, it is the natural model for solving economic inequity, wealth concentration, and social divides. Based on its potential and using examples from Bangladesh and Malaysia, we present the Islamic style of entrepreneurship. We contend that this particular style is the most efficient and desirable one for effectively widening and mainstreaming community-centric third sector economics so that it can ensure development with equity and social justice especially in developing countries.

A Theatre of Pre-Depression: Economics and Apathy in New York

1992 ◽  
Vol 8 (32) ◽  
pp. 313-320
Author(s):  
Glenn Loney
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Peter Pan ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Single Person ◽  
The Future ◽  
Special Concern ◽  
The Many

In an article in NTQ22 (May 1990), Glenn Loney clarified, with special concern for a British readership, the many ‘Factors in the Broadway Equation’. In NTQ 30 (May 1992), he took a closer look at the productions of the 1990–91 season, with its glut of musicals, from the lavish to the just plain lousy, economic ‘single-person shows’ – and the sometimes more challenging products of the off-Broadway and not-for-profit sectors. Here, he continues to trace the long decline of the ‘fabulous invalid’ through the season of 1991–92 – a season overshadowed by the death of Joe Papp, the mourning for a great showman mixed with concern for the future of his Public Theatre enterprises. The paucity of productions on Broadway – where, while one show could lose its backers four million dollars overnight, Peter Pan took American audiences happily back to the traditions of English pantomime – continued to contrast with signs of life elsewhere, and new productions marked milestone-anniversaries for La Mama and the Manhattan Theatre Club. Glenn Loney, is a widely published theatre writer and teacher based in New York.

A FRESH AND CALCULATED LOOK AT U.S. TEENAGERS: EXAMINING THE PRESENT TO PREDICT THE FUTURE

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 587-596 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Manolis
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Economic Strategy ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
The Future ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The U.S

This paper takes a fresh look at the teenage population in the U.S. In addition to reviewing a series of recent empirical studies on teenagers, the paper presents a straightforward model whereby research findings pertaining to teenagers might be conceptualized and organized. Ultimately, the model may be utilized not only to develop a better understanding of teens, but also to predict their behavior and derive sound economic strategy on behalf of the various organizations and institutions entrusted to serve and support this important segment of the population. The paper considers current cognitions and affect of U.S. teenagers and their parents, as well as current and future teen behavior. As a unique and ever-changing segment of the population, teenagers are socially as well as economically significant, and warrant continued study and contemplation by a variety of public, private, forprofit, and not-for-profit firms, organizations, and/or institutions.

Managing Water for the Future: The Case of England and Wales

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Byatt
Keyword(s):  
Social Interest ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Public Corporations ◽  
Length Relationship ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Post War ◽  
One Year ◽  
Definition Of

To understand how things have worked is the best preparation for looking ahead. So I will not gaze into a crystal ball but explain what is happening in England and Wales. I will, however, set out and discuss some scenarios for the future. In 1989 the water industry emerged from the nationalization era which it had entered only fifteen years earlier. It was a late entrant into the world of public corporations that had emerged between the wars, and particularly after 1945—a world that was a product of Fabian thinking and wartime experience. The Fabians provided the intellectual base for ‘gas and water socialism’ in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Two world wars encouraged people to believe that the state could manage our basic industries efficiently, and the inter-war depression drew attention to deficiencies in the working of the market economy. ‘Gas and water socialism’ started in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, in the municipalities, with gas, water, electricity, and tramways. In the inter-war years there was a movement towards regional, then national operations, culminating in the post-war Nationalization Acts. Consolidation in water followed slowly. The amalgamation of municipal undertakings into ten Regional Water Authorities did not take place until 1973. It brought a host of water and wastewater undertakings onto a river basin basis. A further step was taken in 1983 with the substitution of smaller, more executive boards for the much larger bodies that had included local authority representatives. The model for nationalization in the UK developed from the experience of Herbert Morrison, a key figure in the post-war Labour Government. It involved an arm’s-length relationship with government. By the 19705, the flaws in this model were evident. The boards of the nationalized industries were required to act in the social interest, subject to breaking even financially. The definition of the social interest was the responsibility of the boards, without any clear mechanisms for ministers to influence their decisions. It was never clear what ‘breaking-even’, ‘taking one year with the next’, meant in practice. Moreover, having delegated social functions to such a public not-for-profit body, ministers found it difficult to stay clear.

Case III.5: Reflections on our Critical Service Learning Provision: Is it Critical or Are We Social Justice Dreamers?

2020 ◽  
pp. 299-314
Author(s):  
Sharon Hutchings ◽  
Andrea Lyons Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Public Sociology ◽  
Mutual Benefit ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Social Justice Orientation ◽  
Not For Profit

In 2013 we ran a small but successful service learning pilot in the department of sociology at Nottingham Trent University (NTU). Immediately following the pilot, service learning was added to our BA Sociology, BA Criminology and MA Public Sociology provision as core modules. In brief, we argue our version of service learning sits within a social justice orientation, often referred to as critical service learning. Simply put, this involves students working in partnership with our not-for-profit community on social justice issues for the purpose of social change and mutual benefit for community partners and students. These are big claims. Whether the service learning we do at NTU genuinely extends beyond the dream of social justice is at the heart of this chapter....

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