Sustainable and socially responsible business is not only about conventional commercially motivated companies, it also involves social enterprises (businesses motivated primarily by social aims) and other ‘Third Sector’ organisations. BRASS has been at the forefront of research in the role of Social Enterprise in sustainability, including projects to develop sustainability indicators for social enterprise, and researching the role that they play in key sustainability sectors such as waste. BRASS also produced a research monograph on Social Enterprises for the ESRC and played a key role in a series of research agenda-setting seminars.
Links to BRASS projects:
- Sustainability Indicators and Social Enterprises
- CSR and SMEs
- Turning Big Ideas into Viable Social Enterprises
- Social Enterprises, Sustainable Waste and Resource Management
- Social Enterprises and Public Service Provision in Wales
Links to BRASS Researchers
Highlighted Outputs
- Waste Management: The role of social enterprises
- Typology Tool
- The extent and impact of formalized social enterprise activities in voluntary and charitable organizations involved in public service provision in Wales
- Waste Management: The role of social enterprises
For the more academic outputs associated with this research, please consult the project pages.
