Effective Management of Social Enterprises

Lessons from Businesses and Civil Society Organizations in Iberoamerica

Editorial coordination by Social Enterprise Knowledge Network (SEKN)

Edited by James E. Austin

Edited by Roberto Gutierrez

Edited by Enrique Ogliastri

Edited by Ezequiel Reficco

    What makes civil society organizations effective performers? What are key practices for businesses creating social value activities as a part of their overall operations? Business leaders have long analyzed corporate practices; this book represents an innovative analysis of how one does good in an effective and strategic manner. This book aims to enable social and business leaders to gain a greater understanding of how to achieve high performance in terms of social value creation.

    Social Enterprise Knowledge Network is a research partnership encompassing eleven leading management schools--nine in Latin America, one in Spain, and Harvard Business School--with a demonstrated capacity to produce high-quality, original, field-based research in Latin America.

    Based on the results of a two-year research process on how social and business organizations in Ibero-America achieve superior social performance, Seeking Success in Social Enterprise presents the most comprehensive and in-depth analysis of such practices ever undertaken in this region. This practitioner-oriented book also enriches the literature on organizational performance, social enterprise, and corporate social responsibility, and on Ibero-America more generally.

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James E. Austin is Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration and Chair of the Initiative on Social Enterprise at the Harvard Business School.