Michael James Roy
Biographic Data
| ID | 4567915 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael James Roy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael James |
| FAMILY NAME | Roy |
| SIGNATURE | ROY M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Glasgow Caledonian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1834-0826 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 126 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Whose responsibility is it anyway? Unpacking prevention during service delivery to support value co-creation
Preventive reforms typically emphasize individual responsibility or the mobilization of community assets, but an enduring implementation gap exists. The ongoing stalemate calls for a fundamental shift in the way public services are understood and delivered. Central to this shift is understanding the complex interplay between roles, responsbility and multi-layered contexts shaping service delivery and outcomes. Drawing on qualitative research on h…
Assembling social enterprise
The Impact of a Disability Financial Support Program on Employment Experiences Within Work Integration Social Enterprises in Ontario, Canada
Many individuals with psychiatric disabilities employed by work integration social enterprises (WISEs) rely on disability financial supports to supplement their income. However, little research has investigated the interconnections between WISE, disability support, and psychiatric disability. We draw on data from a qualitative study of employees, supervisors and administrators from seven WISEs in Ontario, Canada, to determine: (a) how does receip…
What matters for ‘good work’? Shared perspectives from Work Integration Social Enterprises
With the positive effects of ‘good work’, and the adverse effects of poor work becoming increasingly well documented, innovative approaches to providing employment for those who are excluded from work continues to be a salient topic. Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISEs) are organizations that pursue employment creation for those often excluded from the wider labour market. Yet WISEs have faced criticism for prioritizing market-based approa…
Health and social care integration
In response to increasingly complex needs and tightening fiscal constraints, integration has led to changes in governance arrangements and joint service delivery. Applying a service ecosystem a holistic view is presented to discuss the interconnectedness between the domains of the health and social care ecosystem, including their unique and shared contexts and the various actors and institutions involved. However, our analysis also exposes import…
Economic evaluation of participation in Community Led Organisations for individuals living in disadvantaged areas in the UK
This paper presents an economic evaluation of community-led and -owned organisations that deliver activities to support health and wellbeing. Because community-led organisations (CLOs) are a vital part of the social and solidarity economy, they increasingly feature in public health policies targeting disadvantaged populations. However, little is known about the value CLOs generate as few economic evaluations of them exist and those available focu…
Relationships between community-led mutual aid groups and the state during the Covid-19 pandemic
This research explores ways public service ecosystems developed during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on relationships between community-led mutual aid groups and the state. Data were collected through in-depth interviews, focus groups, and mobile ethnographic methods with 30 participants from the public sector and three mutual aid groups across Scotland. We show how relationships between mutual aid groups and the state - whether complementary, …
Is Government Policy a Barrier or Facilitator to the Work of Place-Based Community-led Nonprofits
In this paper we explore whether government policy acts as a barrier or facilitator to the work of nonprofits, and in what ways (if at all) different policy contexts influence the work of place-based community-led nonprofit organizations working to improve the health and wellbeing of their communities. Employing ‘abductive’ analysis of qualitative data collected through in-depth semi-structured interviews and focus groups with 20 non-profit leade…
Social Enterprise as a Pathway to Work, Wellness and Social Inclusion for Canadians with Mental Illnesses and/or Substance-Use Disorders’
People with serious and persistent mental illnesses and/or substance use disorders are among the most economically and socially disenfranchised populations in Canada, and often present with long histories of labour market detachment and underemployment. Work engagement has the potential to improve social determinants of health while also harnessing productive capacity. This article reports on a five-year study examining the social, economic, and …
Embedding circularity
The dominant conception of the circular economy presents it as a politically neutral, technology-driven process of efficiency improvements and green market expansion. However, it does not consider the social embedding of circularity and thereby risks undermining the transition out of de facto linear economies. This paper begins with a critique of the dominant conception of the circular economy and its shortcomings in relation to allocation, justi…
Nick Bromell, The Powers of Dignity
et de l'activit intellectuelle
Que reste-t-il de l’Amérique jacksonienne ? Nouveaux regards sur la jeune République étatsunienne
Cet article revient sur la conférence en ligne donnée par l’historien Daniel Feller en juillet 2020 sous l’égide de la Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR). Intitulée « Andrew Jackson in the Age of Donald Trump », la communication de Feller portait sur l’instrumentalisation politique de la figure de Jackson par Trump, ses partisans et ses pourfendeurs. Pour des raisons liées à son contenu autant qu’à sa rhétorique, ainsi …
Hélène Quanquin
Understanding Healthcare Social Enterprises
In recent years 'social enterprises' have become important partners in the delivery of key public services such as healthcare. However, little is known about how healthcare social enterprises contribute to public service provision in the health sector. We analyzed 172 social enterprises from four continents involved in healthcare to assess the types of interventions, processes, and roles they play responding to rapidly evolving healthcare systems…
Entretien avec Ana Lucia Araujo
Michaël Roy (M.R.) : Bonjour Ana. Vous avez rejoint le comité scientifique de Transatlantica tout récemment : bienvenue ! Pouvez-vous vous présenter pour les lectrices et lecteurs de la revue ? Ana Lucia Araujo (A.L.A.) : Je suis une historienne dont les travaux de recherche se concentrent sur l’histoire et la mémoire de l’esclavage et de la traite atlantique des esclaves. J’ai une double formation en histoire et histoire de l’art. Mes recherches…
Les universités états-uniennes et les réparations liées à l’esclavage
Précédé d’un court chapeau introductif, l’entretien avec Adam Rothman, professeur d’histoire à l’université de Georgetown, à Washington, D.C., retrace le processus entamé par l’université afin d’explorer les liens de l’institution avec l’esclavage et d’envisager les formes de réparations possibles
Institutional logics as a framework for understanding third sector development
We compare the development of the third sector in Scotland and Quebec, which have developed ecosystems that distinguish them from the liberal non-profit regimes of the UK and Canada. We employ an institutional logics framework to consider how the rules, practices, values and beliefs of these ‘stateless nations’ have formed unique structures and identities of the third sector that diverge from their broader national context. Our model demonstrates…
Using micro-geography to understand the realisation of wellbeing
Exploring the contribution of social enterprise to health and social care
Social innovation, social enterprise, and local public services
This article discusses some of the challenges encountered in embedding effective and sustainable social enterprise and social innovation within established political institutional systems to deliver local welfare services. It draws upon evidence analyzing social innovation and social enterprise in Scotland to contribute to the debate over whether social innovations and social enterprises are able to meet expectations in addressing the significant…
Differentiating the effect of social enterprise activities on health
Two false positives do not make a right
Conceptualizing the health and well-being impacts of social enterprise
Social enterprises-businesses that work for social benefit rather than for the maximization of financial returns to shareholders or owners-could potentially prove to be an innovative and sustainable way of tackling 'upstream' social determinants of health. However, empirical work focusing upon how, and to what extent, social enterprise-led activity may impact upon health and well-being is still relatively scarce. This study examines how social en…
From Policy to Practice
While there has been significant academic focus on social enterprise policy for a number of years now, the links between policy and the practice of social enterprise have received comparatively less attention. Scotland is recognised as having a particularly supportive environment for social enterprise; the Scottish Government has publicly endorsed social enterprise and made considerable investment into the sector. Based upon an in-depth qualitati…
Polanyi’s ‘substantive approach’ to the economy in action? Conceptualising social enterprise as a public health ‘intervention’
For several decades now, critical public health researchers have highlighted the deleterious effects that pursuing neoliberal policies can have on the ‘causes of the causes’ of poor health and upon growing health inequalities. This paper argues that the conceptual tools of Karl Polanyi can help lend particular insight into this issue. The specific example that this paper focuses upon is the ‘social enterprise’: a form of organisation that combine…
The Most Supportive Environment in the World”? Tracing the Development of an Institutional ‘Ecosystem’ for Social Enterprise
While numerous accounts of policy frameworks associated with country-level support for social enterprise activity exist, explanations for when , why and how policy interventions in support of social enterprise have been adopted have been, to date, much more thin on the ground. This paper aims to contribute to addressing this perceived gap by presenting the case of Scotland, recently hailed by First Minister Alex Salmond as “the most supportive en…
Social impact bonds
This article provides a rounded critique of social impact bonds (SIBs): a newly developed and innovative financial investment model, developed in the UK and starting to spread internationally that could transform the provision of social services. Although SIBs have the potential to influence delivery by all providers, this article raises three concerns about their possible effects – in relation to their potential outcomes, unintended consequences…
A comparative overview of social enterprise ‘ecosystems’ in Scotland and England
Social enterprise has been identified as a culturally and socially constructed phenomenon; over recent years there has been increasing focus on how social enterprise ‘ecosystems’ differ across countries. There has been less focus on the differences in social enterprise ecosystems within countries, where regional differences in the cultural, political and social environment can lead to variations in the environment for support. Recent devolution w…
Exploring the contribution of social enterprise to health and social care
Conceptualising the public health role of actors operating outside of formal health systems
From Policy to Practice
While there has been significant academic focus on social enterprise policy for a number of years now, the links between policy and the practice of social enterprise have received comparatively less attention. Scotland is recognised as having a particularly supportive environment for social enterprise; the Scottish Government has publicly endorsed social enterprise and made considerable investment into the sector. Based upon an in-depth qualitati…
Using micro-geography to understand the realisation of wellbeing
Differentiating the effect of social enterprise activities on health
Embedding circularity
The dominant conception of the circular economy presents it as a politically neutral, technology-driven process of efficiency improvements and green market expansion. However, it does not consider the social embedding of circularity and thereby risks undermining the transition out of de facto linear economies. This paper begins with a critique of the dominant conception of the circular economy and its shortcomings in relation to allocation, justi…
Institutional logics as a framework for understanding third sector development
We compare the development of the third sector in Scotland and Quebec, which have developed ecosystems that distinguish them from the liberal non-profit regimes of the UK and Canada. We employ an institutional logics framework to consider how the rules, practices, values and beliefs of these ‘stateless nations’ have formed unique structures and identities of the third sector that diverge from their broader national context. Our model demonstrates…
Polanyi’s ‘substantive approach’ to the economy in action? Conceptualising social enterprise as a public health ‘intervention’
For several decades now, critical public health researchers have highlighted the deleterious effects that pursuing neoliberal policies can have on the ‘causes of the causes’ of poor health and upon growing health inequalities. This paper argues that the conceptual tools of Karl Polanyi can help lend particular insight into this issue. The specific example that this paper focuses upon is the ‘social enterprise’: a form of organisation that combine…
Social innovation, social enterprise, and local public services
This article discusses some of the challenges encountered in embedding effective and sustainable social enterprise and social innovation within established political institutional systems to deliver local welfare services. It draws upon evidence analyzing social innovation and social enterprise in Scotland to contribute to the debate over whether social innovations and social enterprises are able to meet expectations in addressing the significant…
Social Enterprise as a Pathway to Work, Wellness and Social Inclusion for Canadians with Mental Illnesses and/or Substance-Use Disorders’
People with serious and persistent mental illnesses and/or substance use disorders are among the most economically and socially disenfranchised populations in Canada, and often present with long histories of labour market detachment and underemployment. Work engagement has the potential to improve social determinants of health while also harnessing productive capacity. This article reports on a five-year study examining the social, economic, and …
Understanding Healthcare Social Enterprises
In recent years 'social enterprises' have become important partners in the delivery of key public services such as healthcare. However, little is known about how healthcare social enterprises contribute to public service provision in the health sector. We analyzed 172 social enterprises from four continents involved in healthcare to assess the types of interventions, processes, and roles they play responding to rapidly evolving healthcare systems…
Two false positives do not make a right
Social Innovation
The UK Government has recently implemented large-scale public-sector funding cuts and substantial welfare reform. Groups within civil society are being encouraged to fill gaps in service provision, and ‘social innovation’ has been championed as a means of addressing social exclusion, such as that caused by worklessness, a major impediment to citizens being able to access money, power and resources, which are key social determinants of health. The…
Further Limits to Institutional Isomorphism? Introducing the ‘Neo-contingency Approach’ to the Field of Community-Led Social Ventures
In this paper, we apply the established ‘neo-contingency approach’ from organizational theory into the field of community-led social ventures which, by necessity, have to be embedded within their local community context in order to achieve their social mission. Through our analysis of three heterogeneous case studies from around rural Japan, we show how the external environment and contingencies affect leadership style and the pattern of social c…
Social impact bonds
This article provides a rounded critique of social impact bonds (SIBs): a newly developed and innovative financial investment model, developed in the UK and starting to spread internationally that could transform the provision of social services. Although SIBs have the potential to influence delivery by all providers, this article raises three concerns about their possible effects – in relation to their potential outcomes, unintended consequences…
The potential of social enterprise to enhance health and well-being
Social Innovation
The UK Government has recently implemented large-scale public-sector funding cuts and substantial welfare reform. Groups within civil society are being encouraged to fill gaps in service provision, and ‘social innovation’ has been championed as a means of addressing social exclusion, such as that caused by worklessness, a major impediment to citizens being able to access money, power and resources, which are key social determinants of health. The…
The Most Supportive Environment in the World”? Tracing the Development of an Institutional ‘Ecosystem’ for Social Enterprise
While numerous accounts of policy frameworks associated with country-level support for social enterprise activity exist, explanations for when , why and how policy interventions in support of social enterprise have been adopted have been, to date, much more thin on the ground. This paper aims to contribute to addressing this perceived gap by presenting the case of Scotland, recently hailed by First Minister Alex Salmond as “the most supportive en…
Further Limits to Institutional Isomorphism? Introducing the ‘Neo-contingency Approach’ to the Field of Community-Led Social Ventures
In this paper, we apply the established ‘neo-contingency approach’ from organizational theory into the field of community-led social ventures which, by necessity, have to be embedded within their local community context in order to achieve their social mission. Through our analysis of three heterogeneous case studies from around rural Japan, we show how the external environment and contingencies affect leadership style and the pattern of social c…
The assets-based approach
The 'assets-based approach' to health and well-being has, on the one hand, been presented as a potentially empowering means to address the social determinants of health while, on the other, been criticised for obscuring structural drivers of inequality and encouraging individualisation and marketisation; in essence, for being a tool of neoliberalism. This study looks at how this apparent contestation plays out in practice through a critical reali…
A comparative overview of social enterprise ‘ecosystems’ in Scotland and England
Social enterprise has been identified as a culturally and socially constructed phenomenon; over recent years there has been increasing focus on how social enterprise ‘ecosystems’ differ across countries. There has been less focus on the differences in social enterprise ecosystems within countries, where regional differences in the cultural, political and social environment can lead to variations in the environment for support. Recent devolution w…
Conceptualizing the health and well-being impacts of social enterprise
Social enterprises-businesses that work for social benefit rather than for the maximization of financial returns to shareholders or owners-could potentially prove to be an innovative and sustainable way of tackling 'upstream' social determinants of health. However, empirical work focusing upon how, and to what extent, social enterprise-led activity may impact upon health and well-being is still relatively scarce. This study examines how social en…
From Policy to Practice
While there has been significant academic focus on social enterprise policy for a number of years now, the links between policy and the practice of social enterprise have received comparatively less attention. Scotland is recognised as having a particularly supportive environment for social enterprise; the Scottish Government has publicly endorsed social enterprise and made considerable investment into the sector. Based upon an in-depth qualitati…
Polanyi’s ‘substantive approach’ to the economy in action? Conceptualising social enterprise as a public health ‘intervention’
For several decades now, critical public health researchers have highlighted the deleterious effects that pursuing neoliberal policies can have on the ‘causes of the causes’ of poor health and upon growing health inequalities. This paper argues that the conceptual tools of Karl Polanyi can help lend particular insight into this issue. The specific example that this paper focuses upon is the ‘social enterprise’: a form of organisation that combine…
Conceptualising the public health role of actors operating outside of formal health systems
Social innovation, social enterprise, and local public services
This article discusses some of the challenges encountered in embedding effective and sustainable social enterprise and social innovation within established political institutional systems to deliver local welfare services. It draws upon evidence analyzing social innovation and social enterprise in Scotland to contribute to the debate over whether social innovations and social enterprises are able to meet expectations in addressing the significant…
Differentiating the effect of social enterprise activities on health
Two false positives do not make a right
Exploring the contribution of social enterprise to health and social care
Using micro-geography to understand the realisation of wellbeing
Entretien avec Ana Lucia Araujo
Michaël Roy (M.R.) : Bonjour Ana. Vous avez rejoint le comité scientifique de Transatlantica tout récemment : bienvenue ! Pouvez-vous vous présenter pour les lectrices et lecteurs de la revue ? Ana Lucia Araujo (A.L.A.) : Je suis une historienne dont les travaux de recherche se concentrent sur l’histoire et la mémoire de l’esclavage et de la traite atlantique des esclaves. J’ai une double formation en histoire et histoire de l’art. Mes recherches…
Les universités états-uniennes et les réparations liées à l’esclavage
Précédé d’un court chapeau introductif, l’entretien avec Adam Rothman, professeur d’histoire à l’université de Georgetown, à Washington, D.C., retrace le processus entamé par l’université afin d’explorer les liens de l’institution avec l’esclavage et d’envisager les formes de réparations possibles
Institutional logics as a framework for understanding third sector development
We compare the development of the third sector in Scotland and Quebec, which have developed ecosystems that distinguish them from the liberal non-profit regimes of the UK and Canada. We employ an institutional logics framework to consider how the rules, practices, values and beliefs of these ‘stateless nations’ have formed unique structures and identities of the third sector that diverge from their broader national context. Our model demonstrates…
Nick Bromell, The Powers of Dignity
et de l'activit intellectuelle
Que reste-t-il de l’Amérique jacksonienne ? Nouveaux regards sur la jeune République étatsunienne
Cet article revient sur la conférence en ligne donnée par l’historien Daniel Feller en juillet 2020 sous l’égide de la Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR). Intitulée « Andrew Jackson in the Age of Donald Trump », la communication de Feller portait sur l’instrumentalisation politique de la figure de Jackson par Trump, ses partisans et ses pourfendeurs. Pour des raisons liées à son contenu autant qu’à sa rhétorique, ainsi …
Hélène Quanquin
Understanding Healthcare Social Enterprises
In recent years 'social enterprises' have become important partners in the delivery of key public services such as healthcare. However, little is known about how healthcare social enterprises contribute to public service provision in the health sector. We analyzed 172 social enterprises from four continents involved in healthcare to assess the types of interventions, processes, and roles they play responding to rapidly evolving healthcare systems…
Embedding circularity
The dominant conception of the circular economy presents it as a politically neutral, technology-driven process of efficiency improvements and green market expansion. However, it does not consider the social embedding of circularity and thereby risks undermining the transition out of de facto linear economies. This paper begins with a critique of the dominant conception of the circular economy and its shortcomings in relation to allocation, justi…
Relationships between community-led mutual aid groups and the state during the Covid-19 pandemic
This research explores ways public service ecosystems developed during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on relationships between community-led mutual aid groups and the state. Data were collected through in-depth interviews, focus groups, and mobile ethnographic methods with 30 participants from the public sector and three mutual aid groups across Scotland. We show how relationships between mutual aid groups and the state - whether complementary, …
Political science (24 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Business (16 works) · Economics (15 works) · Public relations (14 works) · Community Development and Social Impact (11 works) · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (11 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works)