Alex Nicholls
Biographic Data
| ID | 253085 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Nicholls |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Nicholls |
| SIGNATURE | NICHOLLS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8752-9593 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 128 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Arenas of Contestation: A Senian Social Justice Perspective on the Nature of Materiality in Impact Measurement
Although the importance of measuring and reporting the social and environmental impact of organisational action is increasingly well recognised by both organisations and society at large, existing approaches to impact measurement are still far from being universally accepted. In this context, the stakeholder dynamics within the nascent field of impact investing demonstrate the complexity of resolving potentially differing perspectives on key impa…
Dynamic persistence in UK policy making: The evolution of social investment ideas and policy instruments
Proponents of policy instruments often have to justify them to shifting political masters. This article explores the evolution of social investment, both as a policy solution and a set of policy instruments, during a period characterized by political turbulence. Discourse analysis of texts produced by an instrument constituency shows how a constant set of policy instruments are framed as a changing solution to different political problems. This h…
Social Impact Bonds: The Role of Private Capital in Outcome-Based Commissioning
Social impact bonds are payment by results contracts that leverage private social investment to cover the up-front expenditure associated with welfare services. The introduction of private principles and actors through outcome-based commissioning has received a great deal of attention in social policy research. However, there has been much less attention given to the introduction of private capital and its relation to more established forms of qu…
Neoliberalism by stealth? Exploring continuity and change within the UK social enterprise policy paradigm
Social enterprise has been portrayed as challenging neoliberalism, and alternatively, as neoliberalism by stealth. Here we conceptualise social enterprise as a microparadigm nested within wider political and economic frameworks. Our analysis of continuity and change over a period of political and economic crisis in England demonstrates considerable evidence of normative change in the ideas underpinning social enterprise policies. However, further…
Introduction: Dimensions of Social Innovation
Social innovation is not new, but it appears to be entering a new phase — a phase in which it is increasingly seen as offering solutions not just to localised problems but to more systemic and structural issues. Nevertheless, the growing set of examples and attendant discourses and logics of social innovation have yet to coalesce around a single, common definition, a set of standards or performance measures or an agreed policy agenda. Partly, thi…
Social Innovation
Fair Trade
This article considers a leading form of ethical consumption: fair trade (FT). FT uses a set of standards and – in some cases a certification scheme – to ensure that poor producers and artisans capture a far larger proportion of the value chain than is conventional. This creates a market‐driven development tool.
New Frontiers in Social Innovation Research
Social Policy, Politics and Economics of Welfare, Business and Management, Innovation, Sociology, Economic Sociology, Politics, Citizenship, Social Policy and Welfare
Social Innovation
Focusing on social innovation broadly conceived in the context of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise in their global context this book is organised to address three of the most important th
Social Enterprise and Social Entrepreneurs
In the past two decades, “civil society” has become a central organizing concept in the social sciences. Occupying the middle ground between the state and private life, the civil sphere encompasses everything from associations to protests to church groups to nongovernmental organizations. Interest in the topic exploded with the decline of statism in the 1980s and 1990s, and many of our current debates about politics and social policy are informed…
The Legitimacy of Social Entrepreneurship: Reflexive Isomorphism in a Pre–Paradigmatic Field
Following Kuhn, this article conceptualizes social entrepreneurship as a field of action in a pre–paradigmatic state that currently lacks an established epistemology. Using approaches from neo–institutional theory, this research focuses on the microstructures of legitimation that characterize the development of social entrepreneurship in terms of its key actors, discourses, and emerging narrative logics. This analysis suggests that the dominant d…
Fair Trade: Towards an Economics of Virtue
Germany: The Long Road West, 1933-1990
This translation of the second volume of Heinrich August Winkler's monumental work on Germany's ‘Special Path’ from authoritarian nationalism to Western ‘normality’ is much to be welcomed.1 Winkler has been fortunate in his choice of translator. Professor Sager writes fluently and conveys the meaning of the original with clarity and sensitivity. Winkler addresses a question which has divided historians in West Germany and elsewhere for many years…
Social Entrepreneurship: New Models of Sustainable Social Change
Social Entrepreneurship' is a term that has come to be applied to the activities of grass-roots activists, NGOs, policy makers, international institutions, and corporations, amongst others, which address a range of social issues in innovative and creative ways. Themed around the emerging agendas for developing new, sustainable models of social sector excellence and systemic impact, Social Entrepreneurship offers, for the first time, a wide-rangin…
Fair Trade: Market-Driven Ethical Consumption
Victory in Europe: Britain and Germany since 1945
Journal Article Victory in Europe: Britain and Germany since 1945 Get access Anthony J. Nicholls Anthony J. Nicholls Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 483, September 2004, Pages 1017–1018, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/119.483.1017 Published: 01 September 2004
Humanitare Auslandshilfe als Brucke zu atlantischer Partnerschaft: Care, CRALOG und die Entwicklung der deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs
1St Antony's College, Oxford Humanitäre Auslandshilfe als Brücke zu atlantischer Partnerschaft: CARE, CRALOG und die Entwicklung der deutsch‐amerikanischen Beziehungen nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs Karl‐Ludwig Sommer BremenSelbstverlag des Staatsarchivs 1999400DM 44
Historians and Totalitarianism: The Impact of German Unification
Giinter Bischof, Austria in the First Cold War, 1945-55. The Leverage of the Weak, London, Macmillan, 1999; pp. xvii + 237; ISBN 0 333 72547 6 Jan Hermann Brinks, Children of a New Fatherland. Germany's Post-War Right-Wing Politics, London, I.B. Taurus, 2000; pp. xx + 200; ISBN 1 86064 458 9 Peter Grieder, The East German Leadership 1946-73. Conflict and Crisis, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1999; pp. x + 243; ISBN 0 7190 5498
Freedom with Responsibility: The Social Market Economy in Germany, 1918-1963
This book goes behind the success story of the Federal Republic of Germany since the Second World War to examine the principles underpinning the so-called ‘economic miracle’. West Germany's Economics Minister, Ludwig Erhard, maintained that his social market economy worked because it consisted of sound economic principles applied with common sense and consistency. It was a serious attempt to harness the dynamic forces of free-market competition w…
The Bonn Republic: West German Democracy, 1945-1990
Prologue: the impact of defeat. The legacy of the occupation, 1945-9 the embryonic party system economic crisis, 1947-8 the Bonn Republic is founded the 1950s - economic success and social consolidation West Germany achieves sovereignty Adenauer's democracy and the beginnings of change, 1955-1963 growing pains - Erhard, Kiesinger and Brandt, 1963-69 Brandt and the era of reform, 1969-1974 affluence and compromise - Schmidt as chancellor Helmut Ko…
Nazism, Fascism and the Working Class
Nazism, Fascism and the Working Class Get access A. J. Nicholls A. J. Nicholls Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 14, Issue 2, April 1996, Pages 268–269, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/14.2.268 Published: 01 April 1996
Report from the Chair 1995
Journal Article Report from the Chair 1995 Get access Anthony J. Nicholls Anthony J. Nicholls St Antony's College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 14, Issue 2, April 1996, Pages 221–222, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/14.2.221 Published: 01 April 1996
German unification: The destruction of an economy
Journal Article German unification: the destruction of an economy Get access German unification: the destruction of an economy. Edited by Hanna Behrend. London: Pluto. 1995. 232 pp. £40.00; ISBN 0 7453 1004 4 Pb.: £12. 95; ISBN 0 7453 1003 6. A. J. Nicholls A. J. Nicholls 1St Antony's College, University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 2, April 1996, Pages …
The German History Society: Report from the chair 1994
Report from the chair 1994
Journal Article Report from the chair 1994 Get access Anthony J. Nicholls Anthony J. Nicholls St Antony's College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 13, Issue 3, July 1995, Pages 383–384, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/13.3.383 Published: 01 July 1995
New Frontiers in Social Innovation Research
Social Policy, Politics and Economics of Welfare, Business and Management, Innovation, Sociology, Economic Sociology, Politics, Citizenship, Social Policy and Welfare
Neoliberalism by stealth? Exploring continuity and change within the UK social enterprise policy paradigm
Social enterprise has been portrayed as challenging neoliberalism, and alternatively, as neoliberalism by stealth. Here we conceptualise social enterprise as a microparadigm nested within wider political and economic frameworks. Our analysis of continuity and change over a period of political and economic crisis in England demonstrates considerable evidence of normative change in the ideas underpinning social enterprise policies. However, further…
Social Impact Bonds: The Role of Private Capital in Outcome-Based Commissioning
Social impact bonds are payment by results contracts that leverage private social investment to cover the up-front expenditure associated with welfare services. The introduction of private principles and actors through outcome-based commissioning has received a great deal of attention in social policy research. However, there has been much less attention given to the introduction of private capital and its relation to more established forms of qu…
Freedom with Responsibility: The Social Market Economy in Germany, 1918-1963
This book goes behind the success story of the Federal Republic of Germany since the Second World War to examine the principles underpinning the so-called ‘economic miracle’. West Germany's Economics Minister, Ludwig Erhard, maintained that his social market economy worked because it consisted of sound economic principles applied with common sense and consistency. It was a serious attempt to harness the dynamic forces of free-market competition w…
Fair Trade: Towards an Economics of Virtue
German unification: The destruction of an economy
Journal Article German unification: the destruction of an economy Get access German unification: the destruction of an economy. Edited by Hanna Behrend. London: Pluto. 1995. 232 pp. £40.00; ISBN 0 7453 1004 4 Pb.: £12. 95; ISBN 0 7453 1003 6. A. J. Nicholls A. J. Nicholls 1St Antony's College, University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 2, April 1996, Pages …
Developments in West German politics
Journal Article Developments in West German politics Get access Developments in West German politics. Edited by Gordon Smithet al. London: Macmillan. 1989. 395pp. Index. £35.00; ISBN 0 333 47367 1. Pb.: £35.00; ISBN 0 333 47368 x. A.J. Nicholls A.J. Nicholls 1St Antony's College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 66, Issue 4, October 1990, Page 815, https://doi.org/10.230…
Freedom with Responsibility: The Social Market Economy in Germany, 1918- 1963
Journal Article Freedom with Responsibility: The Social Market Economy in Germany, 1918- 1963. Get access Freedom with Responsibility: The Social Market Economy in Germany, 1918-1963. By (A. J.) Nicholls. (Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1994. Pp. xiii + 422. £40.00 hardback. ISBN 0 19 820425 6.) Keith Tribe Keith Tribe Keele University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 105…
Rosa Luxemburg and Lenin
SS im Kreuzverhör, … wir haben es getan: Selbstporträts in Tagebüchern und Briefen 1939–1945, Justiz im Dritten Reich: Eine Dokumentation, Aufstand der Generale: Der 20. Juli in Paris, Das Dritte Reic…
Rosa Luxemburg and Lenin
From Schumacher to Brandt: The Story of German Socialism 1945–1965, Die Deutsche Nachkriegszeit, The Germans and their Modern History, Wandlungen der Deutschen Elite: Ein Zirkulationsmodell deutscher …
Journal Article From Schumacher to Brandt: The Story of German Socialism 1945–1965, Die Deutsche Nachkriegszeit, The Germans and their Modern History, Wandlungen der Deutschen Elite: Ein Zirkulationsmodell deutscher Führungsgruppen 1919–1961 and Das Politische Kräftespiel in der Bundesrepublik Get access From Schumacher to Brandt: The Story of German Socialism 1945–1965. By David Childs. Oxford, London, Edinburgh, New York, Toronto, Paris, Frankf…
Federal Germany: Political and Social Order and Opposition in der Bundesrepublik: Ein Tagungsbericht
Journal Article Federal Germany: Political and Social Order and Opposition in der Bundesrepublik: Ein Tagungsbericht Get access Federal Germany: Political and Social Order. By R. B. Tilford and R. J. C. Preece. London: Oswald Wolff. 1969. 176 pp. Bibliog. Index. 30s.Opposition in der Bundesrepublik: Ein Tagungsbericht. Ed. by Hermann Glaser and Karl Heinz Stahl. Freiburg: Rombach. 1968. 222 pp. (Das Nürnberger Gespräch, IV.) DM 14. A. J. Nicholls…
Developments in West German politics
Journal Article Developments in West German politics Get access Developments in West German politics. Edited by Gordon Smithet al. London: Macmillan. 1989. 395pp. Index. £35.00; ISBN 0 333 47367 1. Pb.: £35.00; ISBN 0 333 47368 x. A.J. Nicholls A.J. Nicholls 1St Antony's College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 66, Issue 4, October 1990, Page 815, https://doi.org/10.230…
Germany's social market economy: Origins and evolution and German neo-liberals and the social market economy
Journal Article Germany's social market economy: origins and evolution and German neo-liberals and the social market economy Get access Germany's social market economy: origins and evolution. Edited by Alan Peacockand Hans Willgerodt. London: Macmillan for Trade Policy Research Centre. 1989. 292pp. Index. £45.00. ISBN 0 333 48563 7.German neo-liberals and the social market economy. Edited by Alan Peacockand Hans Willgerodt. London: Macmillan for …
European Integration and the Nation State: Some Thoughts on the 1950s
Based on the international colloquium held in Florence in September 1987, which involved more than a hundred British, French, German and Italian historians, Power in Europe? is part of a larger collaborative research project designed to investigate perceptions of power in Western Europe over the period 1938 to 1958. Although collections of this kind are bound to be uneven in quality, most of the contributions to Di Nolfo's book reach a high stand…
The German History Society: Report from the chair 1994
Report from the chair 1994
Journal Article Report from the chair 1994 Get access Anthony J. Nicholls Anthony J. Nicholls St Antony's College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 13, Issue 3, July 1995, Pages 383–384, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/13.3.383 Published: 01 July 1995
Between Reform, Reaction and Resistance. Studies in the History of German Conservatism from 1789 to 1945
Journal Article Between Reform, Reaction and Resistance. Studies in the History of German Conservatism from 1789 to 1945 Get access A. J. Nicholls A. J. Nicholls Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 13, Issue 3, July 1995, Pages 418–420, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/13.3.418 Published: 01 July 1995
Freedom with Responsibility: The Social Market Economy in Germany, 1918- 1963
Journal Article Freedom with Responsibility: The Social Market Economy in Germany, 1918- 1963. Get access Freedom with Responsibility: The Social Market Economy in Germany, 1918-1963. By (A. J.) Nicholls. (Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1994. Pp. xiii + 422. £40.00 hardback. ISBN 0 19 820425 6.) Keith Tribe Keith Tribe Keele University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 105…
Nazism, Fascism and the Working Class
Nazism, Fascism and the Working Class Get access A. J. Nicholls A. J. Nicholls Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 14, Issue 2, April 1996, Pages 268–269, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/14.2.268 Published: 01 April 1996
Report from the Chair 1995
Journal Article Report from the Chair 1995 Get access Anthony J. Nicholls Anthony J. Nicholls St Antony's College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 14, Issue 2, April 1996, Pages 221–222, https://doi.org/10.1093/gh/14.2.221 Published: 01 April 1996
German unification: The destruction of an economy
Journal Article German unification: the destruction of an economy Get access German unification: the destruction of an economy. Edited by Hanna Behrend. London: Pluto. 1995. 232 pp. £40.00; ISBN 0 7453 1004 4 Pb.: £12. 95; ISBN 0 7453 1003 6. A. J. Nicholls A. J. Nicholls 1St Antony's College, University of Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 2, April 1996, Pages …
Freedom with Responsibility: The Social Market Economy in Germany, 1918-1963
This book goes behind the success story of the Federal Republic of Germany since the Second World War to examine the principles underpinning the so-called ‘economic miracle’. West Germany's Economics Minister, Ludwig Erhard, maintained that his social market economy worked because it consisted of sound economic principles applied with common sense and consistency. It was a serious attempt to harness the dynamic forces of free-market competition w…
The Bonn Republic: West German Democracy, 1945-1990
Prologue: the impact of defeat. The legacy of the occupation, 1945-9 the embryonic party system economic crisis, 1947-8 the Bonn Republic is founded the 1950s - economic success and social consolidation West Germany achieves sovereignty Adenauer's democracy and the beginnings of change, 1955-1963 growing pains - Erhard, Kiesinger and Brandt, 1963-69 Brandt and the era of reform, 1969-1974 affluence and compromise - Schmidt as chancellor Helmut Ko…
Historians and Totalitarianism: The Impact of German Unification
Giinter Bischof, Austria in the First Cold War, 1945-55. The Leverage of the Weak, London, Macmillan, 1999; pp. xvii + 237; ISBN 0 333 72547 6 Jan Hermann Brinks, Children of a New Fatherland. Germany's Post-War Right-Wing Politics, London, I.B. Taurus, 2000; pp. xx + 200; ISBN 1 86064 458 9 Peter Grieder, The East German Leadership 1946-73. Conflict and Crisis, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1999; pp. x + 243; ISBN 0 7190 5498
Humanitare Auslandshilfe als Brucke zu atlantischer Partnerschaft: Care, CRALOG und die Entwicklung der deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs
1St Antony's College, Oxford Humanitäre Auslandshilfe als Brücke zu atlantischer Partnerschaft: CARE, CRALOG und die Entwicklung der deutsch‐amerikanischen Beziehungen nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs Karl‐Ludwig Sommer BremenSelbstverlag des Staatsarchivs 1999400DM 44
Victory in Europe: Britain and Germany since 1945
Journal Article Victory in Europe: Britain and Germany since 1945 Get access Anthony J. Nicholls Anthony J. Nicholls Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 483, September 2004, Pages 1017–1018, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/119.483.1017 Published: 01 September 2004
Fair Trade: Market-Driven Ethical Consumption
Social Entrepreneurship: New Models of Sustainable Social Change
Social Entrepreneurship' is a term that has come to be applied to the activities of grass-roots activists, NGOs, policy makers, international institutions, and corporations, amongst others, which address a range of social issues in innovative and creative ways. Themed around the emerging agendas for developing new, sustainable models of social sector excellence and systemic impact, Social Entrepreneurship offers, for the first time, a wide-rangin…
Germany: The Long Road West, 1933-1990
This translation of the second volume of Heinrich August Winkler's monumental work on Germany's ‘Special Path’ from authoritarian nationalism to Western ‘normality’ is much to be welcomed.1 Winkler has been fortunate in his choice of translator. Professor Sager writes fluently and conveys the meaning of the original with clarity and sensitivity. Winkler addresses a question which has divided historians in West Germany and elsewhere for many years…
The Legitimacy of Social Entrepreneurship: Reflexive Isomorphism in a Pre–Paradigmatic Field
Following Kuhn, this article conceptualizes social entrepreneurship as a field of action in a pre–paradigmatic state that currently lacks an established epistemology. Using approaches from neo–institutional theory, this research focuses on the microstructures of legitimation that characterize the development of social entrepreneurship in terms of its key actors, discourses, and emerging narrative logics. This analysis suggests that the dominant d…
Fair Trade: Towards an Economics of Virtue
Social Innovation
Focusing on social innovation broadly conceived in the context of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise in their global context this book is organised to address three of the most important th
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