'We need to survive' : integrating social enterprises within community food initiatives

Tonner, Andrea and Wilson, Juliette and Gordon, Katy and Shaw, Eleanor; Gustafsson, Ulla and O'Connell, Rebecca and Draper, Alizon and Tonner, Andrea, eds. (2019) 'We need to survive' : integrating social enterprises within community food initiatives. In: What is Food? Researching a Topic with Many Meanings. Routledge, Oxon. ISBN 9781138387690 (https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429426100)

Abstract

In this chapter we examine the impacts of social enterprise on individual and community health and well-being. We focus on community food initiatives and explore how longstanding non-profit models in the community food sector are integrating profit bearing social enterprise within their structures. We consider the impact of these changes on the social determinants of health and the influence of structure on health outcomes. This study uses an interpretive qualitative approach working with two community food social enterprises. Our findings demonstrate that community food initiatives have become more thoughtful and wide ranging in the types of interventions which they offer. They have transformed themselves into complex organisations encompassing an ever-growing range of initiatives. Despite the current climate, where there is considerable support for social enterprise, findings show a reluctance among these initiatives to be aligned to the social enterprise vision. Their strongly charitable origins means that their skills and networks are more closely aligned to charitable models. Findings show support for impact at the individual, social and community layers of the social determinants of health model; however, there is less evidence of impact beyond this into living conditions or socioeconomic, cultural and environmental conditions.

ORCID iDs

Tonner, Andrea ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8436-3946

Wilson, Juliette ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4932-0473

Gordon, Katy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4039-3465

Shaw, Eleanor ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6614-6729

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  Item type:	Book Section
  ID code:	73181
  Dates:	Date Event 11 November 2019 Published 30 September 2018 Accepted
  Subjects:	Social Sciences > Commerce > Marketing. Distribution of products
  Department:	Strathclyde Business School > Marketing Strategic Research Themes > Innovation Entrepreneurship Strathclyde Business School > Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Innovation
  Depositing user:	Pure Administrator
  Date deposited:	14 Jul 2020 09:17
  Last modified:	11 Nov 2024 15:15
  URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/73181