Sean Geobey
Biographic Data
| ID | 1574905 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sean Geobey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sean |
| FAMILY NAME | Geobey |
| SIGNATURE | GEOBEY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8178-7842 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Navigating the space between politics and administration
Through interviews with 25 school board trustees in Ontario, this article contributes to the growing literature that explores the politics‐administration dichotomy at the local government level in Canada. While existing literature is oriented from the perspective of the local government administrator, we examine the relations between local government politicians and administrators from the orientation of the former to determine how they navigate …
Representative Board Governance
The current ethos of most nonprofit boards of directors focuses on role clarity between board directors and the executive director. The board’s role is to collectively set strategic direction and provide oversight while leaving day-to-day operations to staff. Yet, many individual directors join a board to make an impact on the organization by addressing very specific operational concerns and/or to represent a stakeholder group, and this creates t…
Panarchy, ontological and epistemological phenomena, and the Plague
Building resilience to major economic, social, and ecological crises such as armed conflict and natural disasters is seen as critical to maintaining system integrity. Although studies of system survival can be used to gauge whether or not social systems are resilient, this can only be conducted in retrospect. Contemporary measures of resilience rely on proxy measures that one can argue build capacity for resilience, but are not direct proxies for…
Five Configurations for Scaling Up Social Innovation
Why do so many social innovations fail to have a broad impact? Successful social entrepreneurs and nonprofit organizations often “scale out” innovative solutions to local problems in order to affect more communities or numbers of individuals. When faced with institutional barriers, they are motivated to “scale up” their efforts to challenge the broader institutional rules that created the problem. In doing so, they must reorient their own and the…
Social finance in North America
After 20 years in mainstream wholesale banking, Malcolm has spent the last 20 in socially responsible finance, pioneering the Charity Bank in the UK, being a board member of INAISE, and working, latterly with the Institute for Social Banking. He is now working on a community banking project in Scotland when not watching cetaceans or cultivating a desert garden in Andalucia. In 2013, he received the CBE for services to charities and social enterpr…
Navigating the space between politics and administration
Through interviews with 25 school board trustees in Ontario, this article contributes to the growing literature that explores the politics‐administration dichotomy at the local government level in Canada. While existing literature is oriented from the perspective of the local government administrator, we examine the relations between local government politicians and administrators from the orientation of the former to determine how they navigate …
Representative Board Governance
The current ethos of most nonprofit boards of directors focuses on role clarity between board directors and the executive director. The board’s role is to collectively set strategic direction and provide oversight while leaving day-to-day operations to staff. Yet, many individual directors join a board to make an impact on the organization by addressing very specific operational concerns and/or to represent a stakeholder group, and this creates t…
Panarchy, ontological and epistemological phenomena, and the Plague
Building resilience to major economic, social, and ecological crises such as armed conflict and natural disasters is seen as critical to maintaining system integrity. Although studies of system survival can be used to gauge whether or not social systems are resilient, this can only be conducted in retrospect. Contemporary measures of resilience rely on proxy measures that one can argue build capacity for resilience, but are not direct proxies for…
Social finance in North America
After 20 years in mainstream wholesale banking, Malcolm has spent the last 20 in socially responsible finance, pioneering the Charity Bank in the UK, being a board member of INAISE, and working, latterly with the Institute for Social Banking. He is now working on a community banking project in Scotland when not watching cetaceans or cultivating a desert garden in Andalucia. In 2013, he received the CBE for services to charities and social enterpr…
Five Configurations for Scaling Up Social Innovation
Why do so many social innovations fail to have a broad impact? Successful social entrepreneurs and nonprofit organizations often “scale out” innovative solutions to local problems in order to affect more communities or numbers of individuals. When faced with institutional barriers, they are motivated to “scale up” their efforts to challenge the broader institutional rules that created the problem. In doing so, they must reorient their own and the…
Social finance in North America
After 20 years in mainstream wholesale banking, Malcolm has spent the last 20 in socially responsible finance, pioneering the Charity Bank in the UK, being a board member of INAISE, and working, latterly with the Institute for Social Banking. He is now working on a community banking project in Scotland when not watching cetaceans or cultivating a desert garden in Andalucia. In 2013, he received the CBE for services to charities and social enterpr…
Panarchy, ontological and epistemological phenomena, and the Plague
Building resilience to major economic, social, and ecological crises such as armed conflict and natural disasters is seen as critical to maintaining system integrity. Although studies of system survival can be used to gauge whether or not social systems are resilient, this can only be conducted in retrospect. Contemporary measures of resilience rely on proxy measures that one can argue build capacity for resilience, but are not direct proxies for…
Representative Board Governance
The current ethos of most nonprofit boards of directors focuses on role clarity between board directors and the executive director. The board’s role is to collectively set strategic direction and provide oversight while leaving day-to-day operations to staff. Yet, many individual directors join a board to make an impact on the organization by addressing very specific operational concerns and/or to represent a stakeholder group, and this creates t…
Navigating the space between politics and administration
Through interviews with 25 school board trustees in Ontario, this article contributes to the growing literature that explores the politics‐administration dichotomy at the local government level in Canada. While existing literature is oriented from the perspective of the local government administrator, we examine the relations between local government politicians and administrators from the orientation of the former to determine how they navigate …
Political science (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Community Development and Social Impact (3 works) · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Finance (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works)