Kate Cooney
Biographic Data
| ID | 376506 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kate Cooney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kate |
| FAMILY NAME | Cooney |
| SIGNATURE | COONEY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Public Policies and Work Integration Social Enterprises: The Challenge of Institutionalization in a Neoliberal Era
One particular field of Social Enterprise – WISEs or Work Integration Social Enterprises – has become increasingly recognised as being emblematic of the dynamics of social enterprises and now constitutes a major sphere of their activity globally. From their early roots, focusing on providing productive activity for the blind and those with other physical and/or intellectual disabilities, WISEs are pioneers in promoting the integration of excluded…
Work Integration Social Enterprises in the United States: Operating at the Nexus of Public Policy, Markets, and Community
Work integration social enterprises (WISEs) in the United States represent a market based approach for workforce development and labor market integration that offer employment and training opportunities as well as bridges to the mainstream labor market. Historically developed to create separate spaces of work for populations considered less able to compete in mainstream labor markets, such as people with physical and developmental disabilities, a…
Relieving Human Suffering: Compassion in Social Policy
Human suffering is always present in society. There is general consensus that action should be taken to address suffering, but there are differing views as to the appropriate means of doing so. In this paper we utilize a classical understanding of the virtue of compassion to answer the research question: How does contemporary U.S. policy address human suffering through compassionate response? To answer this question, we conduct a critical analysi…
Measuring the Social Returns of Nonprofits and Social Enterprises: The Promise and Perils of the SROI
Social Return on Investment (SROI) metrics are a new tool available to nonprofit and social enterprise organizations to demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of their programs. After a short overview of three dominant methods for calculating the SROI, a case examining the implementation of an SROI study at a nationally recognized Boston-based nonprofit operating workforce development programs is presented to illuminate the methodological d…
Compassion in Contemporary Social Policy: Applications of Virtue Theory
Current academic debate in the social sciences and humanities is revisiting the role of virtue in civic life. This debate is relevant to social policy. We argue that virtue is already an implicit component of policy debates, but that the virtue of compassion has not received sufficient emphasis. To support our argument we review classical and contemporary arguments regarding virtue and its linkage to the 'good society'; articulate the necessity o…
The Business of Job Creation: An Examination of the Social Enterprise Approach to Workforce Development
Work integration social enterprises (WISEs) create jobs through business ventures that function as locations for job training and employment of disadvantaged workers. Although such employment-based poverty interventions have proliferated over the past 20 years, very little systematic research has been done on WISEs in the United States. Analyzing a national database of WISEs, this article provides a snapshot of the industries where WISEs are acti…
New Approaches to Old Problems: Market‐Based Strategies for Poverty Alleviation
The landscape of social welfare policy and practice is marked by new approaches that use business and market mechanisms to combat poverty. This article reviews four such antipoverty strategies: microenterprise, individual development accounts, social enterprise, and bottom‐of‐the‐pyramid (or base‐of‐the‐pyramid) schemes. The study provides a synthesis of the empirical research on the effectiveness of these approaches to date. It examines the effe…
Fields, Organizations, and Agency: Toward a Multilevel Theory of Institutionalization in Action
Melding key concepts from structuration theory with the organizational field framework, this article builds on current work establishing a micro foundation for neoinstitutional organizations theory. First, the author presents a synthesized theoretic approach to explore the institutionalization process. Then, applying the framework to data from a case study of a welfare-to-work program, the article examines the institutionalization process from th…
Mothers First, Not Work First: Listening to Welfare Clients in Job Training
This article builds on current research on welfare reform examining the perspectives of welfare recipients as they experience the policy enacted at the street level. The study aims to provide more information about the gaps between the assumptions embedded in welfare legislation and the complexity of welfare recipients’ lives. Engaging critical theory, the article examines: (1) the internalization of the schemas undergirding welfare reform using …
The Institutional and Technical Structuring of Nonprofit Ventures: Case Study of a U.S. Hybrid Organization Caught Between Two Fields
This paper engages the concept of the organizational field to explore the status of a growing set of organizations referred to as social enterprises, nonprofit ventures, and social purpose businesses. The argument is developed through an ethnographic case study of a nonprofit hybrid organization (in the United States) that is training welfare recipients in their own in-house businesses. First, this paper provides an overview of the commercial tre…
The Implementation of a “Work First” Welfare-to-Work Program in a Changing Environment
Current welfare-to-work programs grapple with the issue of putting welfare recipients to work immediately or investing in long-term education and training. Because of the 1996 welfare reform time limits, "work first" approaches are predominating. This paper examines the innovative program developed by Goodwill Industries of Southern California, which meets the challenges of implementing a work first model with a low-skill Spanish-speaking populat…
The Institutional and Technical Structuring of Nonprofit Ventures: Case Study of a U.S. Hybrid Organization Caught Between Two Fields
This paper engages the concept of the organizational field to explore the status of a growing set of organizations referred to as social enterprises, nonprofit ventures, and social purpose businesses. The argument is developed through an ethnographic case study of a nonprofit hybrid organization (in the United States) that is training welfare recipients in their own in-house businesses. First, this paper provides an overview of the commercial tre…
New Approaches to Old Problems: Market‐Based Strategies for Poverty Alleviation
The landscape of social welfare policy and practice is marked by new approaches that use business and market mechanisms to combat poverty. This article reviews four such antipoverty strategies: microenterprise, individual development accounts, social enterprise, and bottom‐of‐the‐pyramid (or base‐of‐the‐pyramid) schemes. The study provides a synthesis of the empirical research on the effectiveness of these approaches to date. It examines the effe…
The Business of Job Creation: An Examination of the Social Enterprise Approach to Workforce Development
Work integration social enterprises (WISEs) create jobs through business ventures that function as locations for job training and employment of disadvantaged workers. Although such employment-based poverty interventions have proliferated over the past 20 years, very little systematic research has been done on WISEs in the United States. Analyzing a national database of WISEs, this article provides a snapshot of the industries where WISEs are acti…
Fields, Organizations, and Agency: Toward a Multilevel Theory of Institutionalization in Action
Melding key concepts from structuration theory with the organizational field framework, this article builds on current work establishing a micro foundation for neoinstitutional organizations theory. First, the author presents a synthesized theoretic approach to explore the institutionalization process. Then, applying the framework to data from a case study of a welfare-to-work program, the article examines the institutionalization process from th…
Public Policies and Work Integration Social Enterprises: The Challenge of Institutionalization in a Neoliberal Era
One particular field of Social Enterprise – WISEs or Work Integration Social Enterprises – has become increasingly recognised as being emblematic of the dynamics of social enterprises and now constitutes a major sphere of their activity globally. From their early roots, focusing on providing productive activity for the blind and those with other physical and/or intellectual disabilities, WISEs are pioneers in promoting the integration of excluded…
Compassion in Contemporary Social Policy: Applications of Virtue Theory
Current academic debate in the social sciences and humanities is revisiting the role of virtue in civic life. This debate is relevant to social policy. We argue that virtue is already an implicit component of policy debates, but that the virtue of compassion has not received sufficient emphasis. To support our argument we review classical and contemporary arguments regarding virtue and its linkage to the 'good society'; articulate the necessity o…
Relieving Human Suffering: Compassion in Social Policy
Human suffering is always present in society. There is general consensus that action should be taken to address suffering, but there are differing views as to the appropriate means of doing so. In this paper we utilize a classical understanding of the virtue of compassion to answer the research question: How does contemporary U.S. policy address human suffering through compassionate response? To answer this question, we conduct a critical analysi…
The Implementation of a “Work First” Welfare-to-Work Program in a Changing Environment
Current welfare-to-work programs grapple with the issue of putting welfare recipients to work immediately or investing in long-term education and training. Because of the 1996 welfare reform time limits, "work first" approaches are predominating. This paper examines the innovative program developed by Goodwill Industries of Southern California, which meets the challenges of implementing a work first model with a low-skill Spanish-speaking populat…
Work Integration Social Enterprises in the United States: Operating at the Nexus of Public Policy, Markets, and Community
Work integration social enterprises (WISEs) in the United States represent a market based approach for workforce development and labor market integration that offer employment and training opportunities as well as bridges to the mainstream labor market. Historically developed to create separate spaces of work for populations considered less able to compete in mainstream labor markets, such as people with physical and developmental disabilities, a…
Measuring the Social Returns of Nonprofits and Social Enterprises: The Promise and Perils of the SROI
Social Return on Investment (SROI) metrics are a new tool available to nonprofit and social enterprise organizations to demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of their programs. After a short overview of three dominant methods for calculating the SROI, a case examining the implementation of an SROI study at a nationally recognized Boston-based nonprofit operating workforce development programs is presented to illuminate the methodological d…
The Implementation of a “Work First” Welfare-to-Work Program in a Changing Environment
Current welfare-to-work programs grapple with the issue of putting welfare recipients to work immediately or investing in long-term education and training. Because of the 1996 welfare reform time limits, "work first" approaches are predominating. This paper examines the innovative program developed by Goodwill Industries of Southern California, which meets the challenges of implementing a work first model with a low-skill Spanish-speaking populat…
Mothers First, Not Work First: Listening to Welfare Clients in Job Training
This article builds on current research on welfare reform examining the perspectives of welfare recipients as they experience the policy enacted at the street level. The study aims to provide more information about the gaps between the assumptions embedded in welfare legislation and the complexity of welfare recipients’ lives. Engaging critical theory, the article examines: (1) the internalization of the schemas undergirding welfare reform using …
The Institutional and Technical Structuring of Nonprofit Ventures: Case Study of a U.S. Hybrid Organization Caught Between Two Fields
This paper engages the concept of the organizational field to explore the status of a growing set of organizations referred to as social enterprises, nonprofit ventures, and social purpose businesses. The argument is developed through an ethnographic case study of a nonprofit hybrid organization (in the United States) that is training welfare recipients in their own in-house businesses. First, this paper provides an overview of the commercial tre…
Fields, Organizations, and Agency: Toward a Multilevel Theory of Institutionalization in Action
Melding key concepts from structuration theory with the organizational field framework, this article builds on current work establishing a micro foundation for neoinstitutional organizations theory. First, the author presents a synthesized theoretic approach to explore the institutionalization process. Then, applying the framework to data from a case study of a welfare-to-work program, the article examines the institutionalization process from th…
New Approaches to Old Problems: Market‐Based Strategies for Poverty Alleviation
The landscape of social welfare policy and practice is marked by new approaches that use business and market mechanisms to combat poverty. This article reviews four such antipoverty strategies: microenterprise, individual development accounts, social enterprise, and bottom‐of‐the‐pyramid (or base‐of‐the‐pyramid) schemes. The study provides a synthesis of the empirical research on the effectiveness of these approaches to date. It examines the effe…
The Business of Job Creation: An Examination of the Social Enterprise Approach to Workforce Development
Work integration social enterprises (WISEs) create jobs through business ventures that function as locations for job training and employment of disadvantaged workers. Although such employment-based poverty interventions have proliferated over the past 20 years, very little systematic research has been done on WISEs in the United States. Analyzing a national database of WISEs, this article provides a snapshot of the industries where WISEs are acti…
Compassion in Contemporary Social Policy: Applications of Virtue Theory
Current academic debate in the social sciences and humanities is revisiting the role of virtue in civic life. This debate is relevant to social policy. We argue that virtue is already an implicit component of policy debates, but that the virtue of compassion has not received sufficient emphasis. To support our argument we review classical and contemporary arguments regarding virtue and its linkage to the 'good society'; articulate the necessity o…
Measuring the Social Returns of Nonprofits and Social Enterprises: The Promise and Perils of the SROI
Social Return on Investment (SROI) metrics are a new tool available to nonprofit and social enterprise organizations to demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of their programs. After a short overview of three dominant methods for calculating the SROI, a case examining the implementation of an SROI study at a nationally recognized Boston-based nonprofit operating workforce development programs is presented to illuminate the methodological d…
Relieving Human Suffering: Compassion in Social Policy
Human suffering is always present in society. There is general consensus that action should be taken to address suffering, but there are differing views as to the appropriate means of doing so. In this paper we utilize a classical understanding of the virtue of compassion to answer the research question: How does contemporary U.S. policy address human suffering through compassionate response? To answer this question, we conduct a critical analysi…
Public Policies and Work Integration Social Enterprises: The Challenge of Institutionalization in a Neoliberal Era
One particular field of Social Enterprise – WISEs or Work Integration Social Enterprises – has become increasingly recognised as being emblematic of the dynamics of social enterprises and now constitutes a major sphere of their activity globally. From their early roots, focusing on providing productive activity for the blind and those with other physical and/or intellectual disabilities, WISEs are pioneers in promoting the integration of excluded…
Work Integration Social Enterprises in the United States: Operating at the Nexus of Public Policy, Markets, and Community
Work integration social enterprises (WISEs) in the United States represent a market based approach for workforce development and labor market integration that offer employment and training opportunities as well as bridges to the mainstream labor market. Historically developed to create separate spaces of work for populations considered less able to compete in mainstream labor markets, such as people with physical and developmental disabilities, a…
Political science (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Community Development and Social Impact (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (5 works) · Welfare (4 works) · Work (physics (4 works)