Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research / Revue canadienne de recherche sur les OSBL et l’économie sociale (ANSERJ)
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Is There a Credit Union Difference? Comparing Canadian Credit Union and Bank Branch Locations
No full textThis study of credit union and bank branch locations and neighbourhoods in Canada seeks to discover if there is a distinct credit union niche. The study builds on an earlier paper of credit unions and banks in the US which found that credit unions in Wisconsin, Arizona and New Hampshire were more likely to be located in lower-income areas than bank branches (Mook, Maiorano & Quarter, 2015). In Canada, we find that credit union branches are over-represented in rural areas, and under-represented in large population centres relative to bank branches. Additionally, credit unions are overrepresented in middle income areas and underrepresented in high income areas compared to bank branches both at the national level and in all provinces where differences are statistically significant. Another significant finding is that while both credit unions and banks cater to marginalized communities, the type of marginalized communities they cater to distinguishes them. Making use of the Canadian Marginalization Index, we find credit union branches in Canada to be overrepresented in communities marginalized along the dimensions of Material Deprivation and Dependency, while bank branches are overrepresented in communities marginalized along the dimension of Residential Instability and Ethnic Concentration
MB-Sustainable [R]evolution: Permaculture in Ecovillages, Urban Farms, and Communities Worldwide
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Are We Drawing the Correct Conclusions? Regression Analysis in the Nonprofit Literature
No full textLinear models are the most commonly used analytical tools in the nonprofit literature. Academics and practitioners utilize these models to test different hypotheses in support of their research efforts, seeking to find significant results that substantiate their theories. And yet the authors of this article have discovered a surprisingly large number of insignificant results in articles from established nonprofit journals. Insignificant hypotheses and Type II errors surely account for a number of these results, but the authors believe the majority of these results are due to a different cause, one that is detectable and preventable: multicollinearity.Dans les articles sur les organismes sans but lucratif, les modèles linéaires sont les outils analytiques les plus communément utilisés. En effet, académiques et praticiens utilisent tous les deux ces modèles pour évaluer diverses hypothèses relatives à leurs recherches, espérant trouver des résultats significatifs pouvant confirmer leurs théories. Pourtant, les auteurs de cet article ont découvert un nombre surprenant de résultats non significatifs dans des articles de revues établies sur les organismes sans but lucratif. Des hypothèses non significatives et des erreurs du type II expliquent sûrement certains de ces résultats, mais les auteurs croient que la majorité des résultats ont une cause différente qui est détectable et évitable : la multicolinéarité
Les organisations hybrides
No full textIn this article, we study hybrid organizations, namely those practicing social entrepreneurship and those practicing durable entrepreneurship. These organizations do not choose between the contradictory requirements fostered by the objectives that they pursue, be they double objectives (social and economic) or triple (social, economic and environmental). Rather, they choose to accept the tensions inherent in the pursuit of contradictory objectives. This study is based on a cluster analysis of 244 small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It identifies and distinguishes between three main types of organization, commercial SMEs, social entrepreneurship SMEs and sustainable SMEs. These types of SMEs, even though they resemble each other in their structural characteristics (size, age, revenue), differ in terms of the actualization of their entrepreneurial and market orientations. Dans cet article, nous étudions les organisations hybrides, c’est-à-dire celles de l’entrepreneuriat social et de l’entrepreneuriat durable. Ces organisations, plutôt que de choisir entre les exigences contradictoires posées par les objectifs doubles (social et économique) ou triples (social, économique et environnemental) qu’elles s’efforcent d’atteindre, choisissent d’accepter les tensions créées par la poursuite d’objectifs contradictoires. L’étude permet, à partir d’une analyse de regroupement réalisée auprès de 244 PME, d’identifier et de distinguer trois principaux types d’organisation, soit les PME commerciales, les PME d’entreprenariat social et les PME d’entrepreneuriat durable. En outre, ces types de PME, dont les caractéristiques structurelles (taille, âge, revenus) ne sont pas différentes, diffèrent en ce qui concerne l’actualisation de l’orientation entrepreneuriale et de l’orientation envers le marché
Allowing Charities to “Do More Good” through Carrying on Unrelated Businesses
No full textOne way in which charities could increase their positive impact on society is by raising revenue through carrying on a business. Current income-tax legislation in Canada, however, restricts the ability of charities to do so by prohibiting them from carrying on an unrelated business. This article reviews the current law and explores the options for loosening this restriction, while at the same time addressing the potential problems associated with charity-operated businesses. In the end, the author recommends that all charities except private foundations be permitted to operate small businesses, so long as the business activities are disclosed to donors. Les œuvres caritatives pourraient augmenter leur impact positif sur la société en faisant accroître leur revenu au moyen d’une activité commerciale. Au Canada, cependant, la loi actuelle de l’impôt sur le revenu restreint la liberté des œuvres caritatives en les interdisant de gérer un commerce sans lien avec leur activité principale. Cet article passe en revue la loi actuelle et explore les options pour libéraliser la loi, tout en recensant les problèmes potentiels associés aux commerces qui seraient gérés par des œuvres caritatives. Au bout du compte, l’auteur recommande que toute œuvre caritative à l’exception de la fondation privée ait la permission de tenir une petite entreprise, en autant que l’œuvre mette ses donateurs au courant de son activité commerciale