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    • 2008 Summary of Results: BALTA Social Economy Survey - Fall 2008 

      Affolderbach, Julia; Gismondi, Mike (2009-02-12)
      The BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) is a regional collaboration of organizations engaged in research initiatives to strengthen the foundations of the social economy in western Canada. Undertaken by the ...
    • BALTA Handbook for Case Studies in the Social Economy 

      Perry, Stewart E. (2009-02-13)
      The BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) is a five year initiative to conduct research on the social economy. This handbook provides a framework, detailed guidelines and methodology suggestions for case ...
    • BALTA Mapping Workplan - 2007-2008 

      Soots, Lena K.; Gismondi, Mike; Lockhart, Sandy (2009-02-14)
      The BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) is implementing a five year research program to map social economy organizations in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. The program has the following objectives: • ...
    • BALTA Mapping Workplan - 2008-2009 

      Gismondi, Mike; Affolderbach, Julia; Wulff, Stuart (2009-02-13)
      This document summarizes the annual research plans of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance with respect to its mapping program to survey and document social economy organizations in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada.
    • BALTA Mapping Workplan 2009-2010 

      Gismondi, Mike (2010-06-19)
      This document summarizes the annual research plans of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance with respect to its mapping program to survey and document social economy organizations in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada.
    • BALTA Mapping Workplan 2010-2011 

      Gismondi, Mike (2010-06-19)
      This document summarizes the annual research plans of the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance with respect to its mapping program to survey and document social economy organizations in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada.
    • BALTA Project E3 – Mapping the Social Economy from the Ground Up: Urban Neighbourhood/Rural Community Case Study 

      Keough, Noel; Gismondi, Mike (2009-02-14)
      The social economy has begun to attract a lot of interest in Alberta, Canada. This research proposal is to map, through a sustainability lens, the social economy at a neighbourhood level in one Calgary, Alberta, community. ...
    • BALTA SURVEY- READ ONLY VERSION PDF 

      Gismondi, Mike; Affolderbach, Julia; Soots, Lena K. (2008-03-01)
      A copy of the BALTA Survey for people to review before completing the online survey available at www.socialeconomy-bcalberta.ca Click on the "Open" hotlink below.
    • Bases de données sur les organisations d’économie sociale, la classification des activités économiques 

      Bouchard, Marie J.; Ferraton, Cyrille; Rousselière, Damien; Michaud, Valérie (2009-02-15)
      La Chaire de recherche du Canada en économie sociale analyse le rôle de l'innovation sociale dans les organisations d’économie sociale. L'objectif des travaux de la Chaire est de bien cerner le potentiel et les spécificités ...
    • BC-Alberta Social Economy Portraiture Survey 2008-2010: Some Preliminary Patterns 

      Gismondi, Mike; Ross, Lynda (2010-04-27)
      The BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) is collecting information on the scope and scale of the social economy in British Columbia and Alberta. As part of this research endeavor, the BALTA Mapping project ...
    • Conducting Research on the Internet:: Online Survey Design, Development and Implementation Guidelines 

      Andrews, Dorine; Nonnecke, Blair; Preece, Jennifer (2007-11-05)
      Using the Internet to conduct quantitative research presents challenges not found in conventional research. Some of our knowledge concerning the effective design and use of paper-based surveys does translate into electronic ...
    • Definition and Measurement of the Social Economy: Continuous Construct or Dichotomous Variable? 

      Gismondi, Mike; Ross, Lynda; Affolderbach, Julia (2009-11-24)
      The BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) is collecting information on the scope and scale of the social economy in British Columbia and Alberta. This report to BALTA's 2009 symposium provides an update on ...
    • Final Mapping Report: Environmental Organizations 

      Gismondi, Mike; Ross, Lynda; Marois, Juanita (2014-03-12)
      In 2010 the BALTA Mapping Team completed their survey of social economy organizations in Alberta and British Columbia. An important finding of this Mapping research was that a subsection of the population indicated that ...
    • Mapping Social Enterprise in Sunnyside-Hillhurst 

      Lee, Celia (BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA), 2009-11)
      This research, led by Dr. Noel Keough of the University of Calgary and conducted by Master's in Environmental Design student, Celia Lee, has mapped the social economy at a neighbourhood level in one Calgary (Alberta, Canada) ...
    • Mapping the Social Economy in BC and Alberta: Towards a Strategic Approach 

      Lewis, Mike (BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA), 2006-08)
      This paper sets out a general framework and taxonomy within which the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance could define a focus for its initial approach to mapping of the social economy in British Columbia and ...
    • Mapping the Social Economy in British Columbia and Alberta: Final Report 

      Gismondi, Mike; Ross, Lynda; Marois, Juanita; Affolderbach, Julia; Soots, Lena K.; Smith, Ashley (2013-04-10)
      This report begins to paint an interesting portrait of the social economy in BC and Alberta. It was created through the BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA). This alliance was initially started as a 5 year ...
    • Mapping the Social Economy in British Columbia and Alberta: Trends, Patterns, New Directions 

      Affolderbach, Julia; Gismondi, Mike (2009-05)
      The BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) is collecting information on the scope and scale of the social economy in British Columbia and Alberta. As part of this research endeavor, the BALTA Mapping project ...
    • Research Decisions in Mapping the Social Economy in Alberta and British Columbia 

      Affolderbach, Julia; Gismondi, Mike; Soots, Lena K. (2009-02-13)
      This paper outlines the mapping research design process undertaken by the BALTA Mapping Team for the initial stages of the BALTA (BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance)Social Economy Mapping Project (Phase 1). The ...
    • Serenity Funeral Service and the BALTA Profiling Tool 

      Gill, Dominder (2009-02-14)
      This case study of Serenity Funeral Service, a social enterprise in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, was done as a class project for a course in Corporate Social responsibility and Social Entrepreneurship taught by Mark Anielski ...
    • The Social Economy in Alberta and BC: Preliminary Patterns 

      Gismondi, Mike; Ross, Lynda (2010-04)
      The BC-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance (BALTA) is collecting information on the scope and scale of the social economy in British Columbia and Alberta. As part of this research endeavor, the BALTA Mapping project ...


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