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The Contribution of the Social Enterprise Sector to the UK Economy

机译:社会企业对英国经济的贡献

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Social enterprises (SEs) contribute significantly to the UK economy. Yet, their collective contributions are a hidden feat. This paper presents the development, scale and scope of these enterprises, followed by a guide to inform opportunities for future research. This study is important because it presents a critical insight into the contribution of SEs from a market with the world’s first largest social investment wholesaler. This insight will improve systems and models designed to improve operations and performance of these organisations. This study adopts qualitative document analysis of secondary data, namely ‘The Future of Business: State of Social Enterprise Survey’ (2017), ‘Social Enterprise UK Impact Report’ (2018), ‘Northern Ireland Third Sector Report’ (2013), ‘Mapping the social business sector in Wales’ (2017) and ‘Social Enterprise Scotland’ (2017). Documents were analysed using the Nvivo software, through a content analysis approach. This study found that SEs have three forms of contributions: social, economic and environmental. Meanwhile, the areas that emerged for future research are diversity and inclusion, localism, financial performance, service-led sector, employment opportunities, waste management and environmental policies. Due to the nature of the secondary data used, the findings may not be generalisable for all regions. Therefore, future research should employ primary data while utilising a sufficiently large sample to capture the key events in the sector. This paper provides pertinent information for research bodies and policy makers who are interested in funding research in SEs and/or sustainable development studies, while providing novel insights into key areas of contributions: social, economic and environmental domains. Finally, the themes for future direction adds value to the conceptualisation of the SE sector.
机译:社会企业(SE)对英国经济做出了重大贡献。然而,他们的集体贡献是一项隐藏的壮举。本文介绍了这些企业的发展,规模和范围,并附有指南,以告知未来的研究机会。这项研究非常重要,因为它提供了对具有全球第一大社会投资批发商市场的SE企业贡献的重要见解。这种洞察力将改善旨在改善这些组织的运营和绩效的系统和模型。本研究采用定性文档分析辅助数据,即“企业的未来:社会企业现状调查”(2017年),“英国社会企业影响报告”(2018年),“北爱尔兰第三部门报告”(2013年),“绘制威尔士的社会商业部门''(2017)和``苏格兰的社会企业''(2017)。通过内容分析方法,使用Nvivo软件对文档进行了分析。这项研究发现,社企有三种贡献形式:社会,经济和环境。同时,未来研究的领域包括多样性和包容性,地方主义,财务绩效,服务主导的部门,就业机会,废物管理和环境政策。由于所用辅助数据的性质,结果可能无法在所有地区通用。因此,未来的研究应利用原始数据,同时利用足够大的样本来捕获该行业中的关键事件。本文为有兴趣在SE和/或可持续发展研究中资助研究的研究机构和决策者提供了相关信息,同时提供了对关键贡献领域(社会,经济和环境领域)的新颖见解。最后,未来方向的主题为SE行业的概念化增添了价值。

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