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Publication date: 30 March 2007

Tony Chapman, Deborah Forbes and Judith Brown

To study the reasons why UK social enterprises are not yet fulfilling their potential due to the lack of support and trust on the part of key decision makers.

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To study the reasons why UK social enterprises are not yet fulfilling their potential due to the lack of support and trust on the part of key decision makers.

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The study was based in Tees Valley, the southernmost sub‐region in northeast England, which has suffered from a decline in its traditional industries over the past 30 years. Reports the results of in‐depth qualitative interviews with 18 local authority economic regeneration officers and leading local strategic partnership managers across the five borough councils as key stakeholders across Tees Valley to explore potential barriers to the development of the social enterprises sector in this sub‐region. Explains that each interview focused on: perceived differences in the culture of the social enterprise sector compared with private business and the public sector; representation of the sector in key decision making in the sub‐region; the potential for developing entrepreneurship and foresight in the sector; and opinions on the level of support required for capacity building.

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The results indicated that key stakeholders in the public sector assume that there is a value continuum between the voluntary and community sector, through the social enterprise sector, to the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector, while the assumption is also that the closer an organization is to the voluntary and community sector, the more likely that it will be driven by its social values. Supports the view that social enterprises are both “value led” and “market driven”.

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Draws on previously unpublished data from a research project that aimed to assess the size, shape and scope of the social enterprise sector for Tees Valley Partnership.

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Publication date: 29 March 2014

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The Sustainability of Restorative Justice
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ISBN: 978-1-78350-754-2

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Publication date: 12 October 2015

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Inquiry-Based Learning for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (Stem) Programs: A Conceptual and Practical Resource for Educators
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ISBN: 978-1-78441-850-2

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Publication date: 1 October 2018

Naomi Woodspring

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Baby Boomers, Age, and Beauty
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ISBN: 978-1-78743-824-8

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Publication date: 25 November 2016

Ronald J. Burke

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The Aging Workforce Handbook
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ISBN: 978-1-78635-448-8

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Publication date: 1 January 1984

Tim Smallman

REMEMBERING the note of gloom and doom from Mr J. T. Chapman in his presidential comments at the British Lubricants Federation 1982 annual dinner — “trade is bad, and it's going…

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REMEMBERING the note of gloom and doom from Mr J. T. Chapman in his presidential comments at the British Lubricants Federation 1982 annual dinner — “trade is bad, and it's going to get worse,” he said — it was salutary to walk into London's Grosvenor House for the 1983 function in November and find a record 394 sitting down to dine, including two ladies. It looked as if the long‐looked‐for upturn had happened.

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Industrial Lubrication and Tribology, vol. 36 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0036-8792

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Publication date: 29 March 2014

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The Sustainability of Restorative Justice
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Publication date: 16 March 2021

Amy Sanders

This study examines the discursive accounts of civil society in a rural English village to understand what these reveal about contemporary political discourses. It employs a…

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This study examines the discursive accounts of civil society in a rural English village to understand what these reveal about contemporary political discourses. It employs a critical discourse analysis of the conversational interactions of Ambridge residents. The sample comprised all recorded conversations referencing charities, volunteering and civic action drawn from the two-week period corresponding with the change in UK Prime Minister (July 2019). Using three analytical tools derived from extant theory, it considers the salient political ideology underpinning these social interactions. These tools are illustrated with earlier examples of individual civil activities such as the oat-based civil disobedience of a respected older resident. This analysis scrutinises the philanthropic nature of Peggy Woolley's Ambridge Conservation Trust. The fraught process of village fete planning is cited as exemplifying conventional decision-making mechanisms. Problems of staffing a community shop are considered in the light of an increasing political reliance on community volunteers replacing paid staff. Thus, the relative impact of Thatcher, Blair, Cameron and May are considered in exchanges between Ambridge residents from Lynda and Robert Snell to Jazzer McCreery and Jill Archer. The aim is to explore what Ambridge's civil society tells us about Boris Johnson's Britain.

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Flapjacks and Feudalism
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ISBN: 978-1-80071-389-5

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Publication date: 11 August 2006

Jean Wolf

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Travel Survey Methods
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ISBN: 978-0-08-044662-2

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Publication date: 1 February 1963

J.T. CHAPMAN

THE transportation of material in bulk containers over the past few years has increased until the variety of loads carried is infinite, indeed even the casual road user cannot…

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THE transportation of material in bulk containers over the past few years has increased until the variety of loads carried is infinite, indeed even the casual road user cannot have failed to notice the increasing numbers of tank carrying vehicles ; everything from concrete to flour is now accepted as normal. Labour is one of the heaviest charges in industry today and here perhaps is the main reason for the change ; handling any material by hand carries with it a premium in labour costs with loading and unloading and often double and treble handling. As is often the case when economic reasons cause readjustment of industrial methods other advantages also come to light, e.g. delivery of flour in bulk is cleaner and less wasteful than carrying in sacks. The same can be said for most other materials.

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Industrial Lubrication and Tribology, vol. 15 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0036-8792

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