TY - JOUR
T1 - Conceptualizing the health and well-being impacts of social enterprise
T2 - A UK-based study
AU - Macaulay, Bobby
AU - Roy, Michael J.
AU - Donaldson, Cam
AU - Teasdale, Simon
AU - Kay, Alan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/3/28
Y1 - 2017/3/28
N2 - 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 enterprises portray their impact, and how such impacts may be considered in health and well-being terms. Through analysing evaluative reports of the work of social enterprises in Scotland (no17) utilizing a 'process coding' method, we investigate both the selfreported impacts of the work of social enterprises and the mechanisms by which these are said to be derived. Revisiting previous conceptualizations in the extant literature, this work allows us to present an 'empirically-informed' conceptual model of the health and well-being impacts of social enterpriseled activity, and thus presents a significant advance on previous hypothetical, theoretically-based conceptualizations. It is considered that these findings further improve our overall knowledge of ways in which social enterprise and other parts of the third sector could be considered as potentially valuable 'non-obvious' public health actors.
AB - 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 enterprises portray their impact, and how such impacts may be considered in health and well-being terms. Through analysing evaluative reports of the work of social enterprises in Scotland (no17) utilizing a 'process coding' method, we investigate both the selfreported impacts of the work of social enterprises and the mechanisms by which these are said to be derived. Revisiting previous conceptualizations in the extant literature, this work allows us to present an 'empirically-informed' conceptual model of the health and well-being impacts of social enterpriseled activity, and thus presents a significant advance on previous hypothetical, theoretically-based conceptualizations. It is considered that these findings further improve our overall knowledge of ways in which social enterprise and other parts of the third sector could be considered as potentially valuable 'non-obvious' public health actors.
KW - conceptual modelling
KW - public health
KW - social enterprise
KW - UK
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U2 - 10.1093/heapro/dax009
DO - 10.1093/heapro/dax009
M3 - Article
C2 - 28369450
AN - SCOPUS:85048853390
SN - 0957-4824
VL - 33
SP - 748
EP - 759
JO - Health Promotion International
JF - Health Promotion International
IS - 5
ER -