How International Social Ventures Overcome Liability of Outsidership: The Role of Intermediaries

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (1) ◽  
pp. 15767
Author(s):  
Stanislav Vavilov ◽  
Stephan Davys Manning
Keyword(s):  
Social Ventures ◽  
Liability Of Outsidership ◽  
International Social

Issues for the future of international social work education

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gurid Aga Askeland ◽  
Malcolm Payne
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Work Education ◽  
International Association ◽  
Full Range ◽  
International Social Work ◽  
International Social Work Education ◽  
The Future ◽  
Work Education ◽  
International Social

The chapter presents a content analysis and discussion of interviews with most of the awardees and of biographies of others who received the Katherine Kendall Award, focused on their views on the future of international social work and its education. Debate on the future role of the International Association of Schools of Social Work is also reviewed. Weaknesses in the representation of the full range of international social work education by the Association and the Award are considered. Ways of strengthening representation through greater involvement from the Global South and better funding of representation are explored.

Book Reviews

2000 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-144
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Battered Women ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Intimate Violence ◽  
Safety Planning ◽  
International Social

Book reviews: Hugman, Richard, Social Welfare and Social Value: The Role of Caring Professions (reviewed by Ramesh Mishra); Mullard, M. and P. Spicker, Social Policy in a Changing Society (reviewed by Ann Lavan); Lyons, K., International Social Work: Themes and Perspectives (reviewed by Paul Stubbs); Blakemore, Ken, Social Policy: An Introduction (reviewed by Jill Manthorpe); Smithies, Jan and Georgina Webster, Community Involvement in Health: From PAssive Receipts to Active Participants (reviewed by Pat Shannon); Davies, J., E. Lyon and D. Monti-Catania, Safety Planning with Battered Women: Complex Lives/Difficult Choices (reviewed by Robert Harding); Bergen, Racquel Kennedy(ed), Issues in Intimate Violence (reviewed by Michael Crawford); Marmor, Theodore R. and Philip R. De Jong, Social Security and Affordability (reviewed by Dr. Gail Wilson); Chambon, Adrienne S.; Allan Irvine and Laura Epstein Eds., Reading Foucault for Social Work (reviewed by Bob Mulally)

Solutions to property rights ‘violations’ experienced by Ghanaian (Akan) widows and their children: The role of international social workers in addressing human rights

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 405-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rose Korang-Okrah ◽  
Wendy Haight ◽  
Priscilla Gibson ◽  
James Black
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Property Ownership ◽  
International Perspectives ◽  
Economic Survival ◽  
Ghanaian Women ◽  
Rights Issues ◽  
International Social

Social workers are increasingly embracing international perspectives and roles to address persistent human rights issues. This study examines solutions to property rights disputes involving Ghanaian women who are widowed from the perspectives of Akan men and women in four communities. Property ownership is fundamental to the economic survival of women and their children, but millions of women around the world lose their rights to property following the deaths of their husbands. We conducted focus groups with 102 participants in four Akan communities to generate local, culturally viable solutions for preventing property rights violations and resolving them when they do occur.

scholarly journals Inequality Perceptions, Preferences Conducive to Redistribution, and the Conditioning Role of Social Position

Societies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Fatke
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequality ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
International Social Survey Programme ◽  
The Social ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Perceptions Of Inequality ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
International Social

Inequality poses one of the biggest challenges of our time. It is not self-correcting in the sense that citizens demand more redistributive measures in light of rising inequality, which recent studies suggest may be due to the fact that citizens’ perceptions of inequality diverge from objective levels. Moreover, it is not the latter, but the former, which are related to preferences conducive to redistribution. However, the nascent literature on inequality perceptions has, so far, not accounted for the role of subjective position in society. The paper advances the argument that the relationship between inequality perceptions and preferences towards redistribution is conditional on the subjective position of respondents. To that end, I analyze comprehensive survey data on inequality perceptions from the social inequality module of the International Social Survey Programme (1992, 1999, and 2009). Results show that inequality perceptions are associated with preferences conducive to redistribution particularly among those perceive to be at the top of the social ladder. Gaining a better understanding of inequality perceptions contributes to comprehending the absence self-correcting inequality.

Women’s Family and Employment Life Courses Across Twentieth-Century Europe: The Role of Policies and Norms

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Zagel ◽  
Zachary Van Winkle
Keyword(s):  
Family Policy ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Gender Egalitarianism ◽  
Context Data ◽  
Life Courses ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Twentieth Century Europe ◽  
International Social

Abstract This article examines longitudinal patterns of work–family reconciliation across Europe and whether the influence of defamilizing policies on those patterns is contingent on the normative context. Data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement and sequence analysis are used to reconstruct and analyze women’s family and employment life courses from age fifteen to fifty years, born in the period between 1924 and 1966 from fourteen countries. Historic family policy data and gender attitudes collected in the International Social Survey Programme are included in multinomial regressions. Results suggest that defamilization and gender egalitarianism increase the labor market attachment of women with traditional family life courses independently.

How Social Ventures Grow: Understanding the Role of Philanthropic Grants in Scaling Social Entrepreneurship

2020 ◽  
pp. 000765032097343
Author(s):  
Saurabh A. Lall ◽  
Jacob Park
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Institutional Logics ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Debt Finance ◽  
Social Ventures

Although early-stage finance is critical to the growth of most ventures, it is even more important for social ventures as they face the challenges of balancing their social and commercial objectives. Drawing on institutional logics and signaling theory, this study uses a panel data set of 3,401 nascent social ventures to investigate the important role philanthropic grant funding plays in the organizational and financial development of social ventures. We find mixed results, with positive effects on employment and subsequent access to debt finance, but no effects on revenues and access to equity. Our findings connect these theories by suggesting philanthropic grants provide social ventures with flexibility to invest in human capital without pushing them to pursue short-term financial objectives, and that receiving a philanthropic grant provides a signal that is interpreted differently by debt and equity financiers. These findings are especially relevant as funders increasingly use grants to support social entrepreneurship.

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