Laurie Mook is an associate professor in the School of Community Resources and Development at Arizona State University.John R. Whitman is a visiting assistant professor of Entrepreneurship and Leadership in the College of Business Administration at The University of Alabama in Huntsville.Jack Quarter is a professor in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education at the University of Toronto. He is a founding member of Ontario Institute for Studies in Education’s Social Economy Centre.Ann Armstrong is the director of the Social Enterprise Initiative at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.

• PART 1: AN OVERVIEW OF THE SOCIAL ECONOMY1. Introducing the Social EconomyPART 2: THE COMPONENTS OF THE SOCIAL ECONOMY2. Social Economy Businesses3. Local Development Enterprises4. Public Sector Non-profits5. Civil Society OrganizationsPART 3: CRITICAL ISSUES6. Organizational Design and Governance Strategies7. Leadership and Strategic Management8. Human Resources Management9. Financing10. Social AccountingPART 4: CONCLUSIONS11. Concluding Thoughts

‘This book is most useful, and no doubt is intended, as a teaching text. It is full of examples, case studies, and discussion questions that can stimulate rich classroom discussion and student assignments.’- Dennis R. Young (Nonprofit Policy Forum vol 6:03:2015) ‘The authors have put a great deal of thought into the case studies and discussion questions that follow each chapter… This book is highly appropriate for use in business schools, departments of economics, and other comparable domains.’- Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly vol 46:04:2017