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International Perspectives on Social Enterprise and Hybridity in Housing Organisations

International Perspectives on Social Enterprise and Hybridity in Housing Organisations. David Mullins, University of Birmingham, UK Darinka Czischke , Delft University, Netherlands Rachel Bratt , Tufts University, US Tony Gilmour, Elton Consulting and Swinburne, Australia.

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International Perspectives on Social Enterprise and Hybridity in Housing Organisations

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  1. International Perspectives on Social Enterprise and Hybridity in Housing Organisations David Mullins, University of Birmingham, UK DarinkaCzischke, Delft University, Netherlands Rachel Bratt, Tufts University, US Tony Gilmour, Elton Consulting and Swinburne, Australia

  2. Social Enterprise • Trading for Social Purpose • The ‘Robin Hood’ model • Mobilising enterprise for community benefit • Colliding social and commercial logics • Tensions involving beneficiaries in trading • Strong policy rhetoric driven by rationale of substituting for state expenditure

  3. Hybridity • Mixed economies of welfare • Blurred boundaries • ‘Its not just the economy but the organisations themselves that have become mixed’ • Principal ownership • Enacted or Organic? • Hybridisation • Monstrous Hybrids – complex structures • The zones where state/market/society meet & mix

  4. Social Enterprise & Hybridityin Housing Organisations –Key Questions • How and to what extent do housing organisations engage with debates about social enterprise and hybridity? • How do they position themselves vis-à-vis the state, the market and society? • How do they reconcile conflicting logics of ‘common good’, financial return and government policy? • How do these conflicting logics play out in housing policy and implementation in different national and local contexts?

  5. Social Enterprise & Hybridity in Housing Organisations –Key Questions • How useful are models of social enterprise and hybridity in analysis of  organisational behaviour in the housing sector  in these different contexts? • What are the policy implications of the growth in social enterprise and hybridity?

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