Impact measurement in the social and cooperative economy
2019-2022
Coordination:
– Marie J. Bouchard, Full Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal, President, CIRIEC International Scientific Commission on Social and Cooperative Economy
– Damien Rousselière, Full Professor, AGROCAMPUS OUEST, France
The interest in impact measurement in the social and cooperative economy (SCE) is reaffirmed year upon year. Each organization, at some time or another in its development, will come to ask itself about the effects that it generates in order to improve its efficiency and the repercussions of its actions, but also to enhance its recognition among the external stakeholders. Morevover, the financial backers – whether public, philanthropic or private – express nowadays their desire to better know the effects of their financial contribution. We are moving away from a culture of redistribution and towards that of “social investment”. This new interest manifests itself in requirements of demonstration for which organizations often feel poorly of inadequately equipped. This CIRIEC working group wants to focus on the issues of impact measurement in the social economy.
CIRIEC enjoys a tradition and a notoriety in research on the notional framing, the perimeter and the measurement of the social economy. The creation of this Impact Measurement Working Group (IMTG) is an extension of this work. The aim is to take stock of the approaches, methods and indicators of impacts of the social economy in order to inform public decision-makers and practitioners about the challenges posed and opportunities presented by the current trends that cross the world. accountability, evaluation and impact measurement. For this purpose, the IMTG will bring together the contribution of researchers and practitioners specializing in the evaluation and measurement of impacts, particularly in the context of the social economy. Following the publication of The Worth of the Social Economy and The Weight of the Social Economy, the publication of papers on The Impact Measurement of the Social Economy will disseminate the results of the GTMI to a public of the academic world and public policies.
Working group results:
- Special issue of des Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics:
- “Issues and Challenges of Impact Measurement for the Social Economy” edited by Marie J. Bouchard, Damien Rousselière (vol 93, issue2)
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MEMBERS (from 15 countries (Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chili, Croatia, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Romania, South Korea, Spain, UK)):
- AHMED ZAID Malika
- ALARCON CONDE Miguel Angel
- BAEZA SEGUEL Romina
- BARNA Cristina
- BASSI Andrea
- BOUCHARD Marie J.
- CARO CASTRO Victor
- DUFOUR Bryan
- GORROTXATEGI Aratz Soto
- GREILING Dorothea
- GRUET Emilien
- IMAMURA Hajime
- JANY-CATRICE Florence
- LEE Sang-Youn
- LEONARD Maude
- LISTON-HEYES Catherine
- MORANDEIRA ARCA Jon
- NADALES Catalina
- NARVARTE Pedro
- NASIOULAS Ioannis
- NOVKOVIC Sonja
- ORTIZ Raquel
- PETRELLA Francesca
- RADRIGÁN RUBIO Mario Hernán
- REBELEANU Adina
- RICHEZ-BATTESTI Nadine
- RIJPENS Julie
- ROUSSELIÈRE Damien
- SACCHETTI Silvia
- SALATHE BEAULIEU Gabriel
- SCHOENMAECKERS Jérôme
- SIMLESA Drazen
- SPEAR Roger
- STUDER Marion
- TORTIA Ermanno
- YI Ilcheong
