Co-Director, Social
Economy Centre
Research Interests:
Non profits, volunteering, co-operatives,
social economy, and community development.
Recent Funded Research Projects:
SSHRC CURA Grant (2010-2015) Social Business for Marginalized Social Groups
SSHRC Research Grant (2009-2012) : The Potential Interchangeability of Volunteers and Paid Labour : A Critical Interdisciplinary Analysis
SSHRC (2005-2010) : A Community-University Research
Alliance for Southern Ontario’s
Social Economy
SSHRC Public Outreach Grant (2009-2011) : Building Capacity for Volunteers Count - An Innovative Approach to Account for Volunteer Contibutions
Canada
Foundation for Innovation/Ontario Research Fund (2007-2010) Volunteers Count Infrastructure Grant
SSHRC (2003-2007) : University-Union Research
Alliance on Socially Responsible
Investment of Pension Funds
SSHRC INE Research Grant (2003-2007) : Creating
a Framework for Valuing Volunteer
Labour
SSHRC (2006-2007) : Public Outreach Grant for Creating a Framework for Valuing Volunteer Labour
SSHRC Research Grant (2001-2004) : Converting Government-Administered Public Housing to Tenant-Managed Non-Profit Co-operatives: A Stakeholder Framework
Project web sites:
Social Economy Centre (http://www.socialeconomycentre.ca)
Courses
AEC1102 Community Development:
Innovative Models
AEC1182 Nonprofits, Co-operatives and the Social Economy
Recent Refereed Publications:
Refereed Books:
(2010) Mook, L., Quarter, J., & Ryan, S. (Eds.) Researching the social economy. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press)
(2009) Quarter, Jack, Laurie Mook & Ann Armstrong. Understanding the Social Economy: A Canadian Perspective. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
(2008). With Isla Carmichael and Sherida Ryan (eds). Pensions at Work: Socially Responsible Investment of Union-Based Pension Funds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
(2007). Mook, L., Quarter, J., and Richmond, BJ.. What counts: Social accounting for non-profits and co-operatives (2nd Edition). London: Sigel Press. (co-author)
Forthcoming:
(2012, forthcoming). Mook, L., Quarter, J., & Ryan, S. (Eds.) Businesses with a Difference: Balancing the Social and Economic. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press)
Refereed Chapters:
(2010). Mook, L., Quarter, J., & Ryan, S. What’s in a name? In Mook, L., Quarter, J., & Ryan, S. (Eds.) Researching the social economy. (Toronto, University of Toronto Press)
(2010). Mook, L., Quarter, J., & Ryan, S. Conclusion. In Mook, L., Quarter, J., & Ryan, S. (Eds.) Researching the social economy. (Toronto, University of Toronto Press)
(2009). Mook, L., & Quarter, J., Social Accounting for Social Economy Organizations. In the International Encyclopedia of Civil Society. Springer Publishing.
(2008). Quarter, J., Isla Carmichael and Sherida Ryan. Socially responsible investment of pensions: Issues and debates. In J Quarter, I. Carmichael, & S. Ryan (eds). Pensions at Work: Socially Responsible Investment of Union-Based Pension Funds. (pp. 3-41). University of Toronto Press.
(2004). Sousa, J., & Quarter, J.. A Case Study in Transforming a Public Housing Project into a Tenant-Managed Housing Co-operative. In Karsten Mundel & Daniel Schugurensky (eds.). Lifelong citizenship learning, participatory democracy and social change. Volume II. Toronto: Transformative Learning Centre, pp. 545-556.
Forthcoming:
(2011, forthcoming). Hann, J., Mook, L., Quarter, J., & Sengupta, U. Community University Research: The Southern Ontario Social Economy Research Alliance. In P. Hall & I. MacPherson (Eds.), Community-University Research Partnerships. Victoria: Rochdale Press.
(2012, forthcoming). Mook, L., Quarter, J., & Ryan, S. Introduction. In Mook, L., Quarter, J., & Ryan, S. (Eds.) Businesses with a Difference (Toronto: University of Toronto Press)
(2012, forthcoming). Quarter, J., Mook, L., & Hann, J. (Eds.). Non-financial Co-operatives in Canada: 1955 to 2005. In Mook, L., Quarter, J., & Ryan, S. (Eds.): Businesses with a Difference (Under review, University of Toronto Press)
Refereed Articles (Recent/Selected):
(2010). With Laurie Mook. An interactive view of the social economy. Canadian Journal of Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, 1(1),8 - 23
(2008). Femida Handy Laurie Mook, & J. Quarter.. Interchangeability of paid staff and volunteers in nonprofit organizations. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 37 (1), 76-92.
(2007). Laurie Mook, Femida Handy, & J. Quarter.. Reporting volunteer labour at the organizational level: A study of Canadian non–profits. Voluntas, 18(1), 55-71.
(2007) with Laurie Mook, Femida Handy, Jorge Ginieniewicz. The Value of Volunteering for a Nonprofit Membership Organization: The Case of ARNOVA. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 36 (3), 504-520.
(2007). with Femida Handy, Laurie Mook, Jorge Ginieniewicz. The Moral High Ground: Perceptions of Wage Differentials among Executive Directors of Canadian Nonprofits. The Philanthropist, Volume 20 ( 2), 109-127
(2007). with Jorge Sousa. The resilience of the co-operative housing model. Journal of Co-operative Studies, 40 (1), 28-37.
(2006). With Laurie Mook. Accounting for the Social Economy: The Socioeconomic Impact Statement. Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 77 (02), 247-269.
(2006). with Laurie Mook and Femida Handy. Organizational Perspectives on the Value of Volunteer Labour. Australian Journal of Volunteer Studies, Vol. 11 (1), 28–38.
(2006). With Isla Carmichael and Shirley Thompson. Transformative education for pension fund trustees. Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education 17 (1), 46–66.
(2005). with Jorge Sousa. Non-market Housing Models in Ontario: A Stakeholder Analysis. Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 13 (2), 220-240.
(2005). with Jorge Sousa. Atkinson Housing Co-operative: A leading edge conversion from public housing. Housing Studies, 20 (3), 423-439.
(2005). with Laurie Mook, Jorge Sousa, and Susan Elgie. Social Accounting for Nonprofits: The Case of Volunteer Contributions. Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 15 (4), 401-415.
(2005). With Laurie Mook and B.J. Richmond. Social accounting for social economy organizations. Centre for Urban and Community Studies Research Bulletin Number 27, 8 pp.
(2004). with Laurie Mook and B. J. Richmond. How Including Volunteers Changes a Financial Statement: The Expanded Value Added Statement, Voluntary Action, 16 (1), pp. 75-88.
(2004). with Laurie Mook and B. J. Richmond. A Framework for Analyzing Volunteer Value: The Case of Junior Achievement of Rochester. J. of Nonprofit Management, 8 (1), 37-48.
(2004). with Jorge Sousa. A Case Study in Transforming a Public Housing Project into a Tenant-Managed Housing Co-operative. J of Housing and the Built Environment, 19(2), 187-198.
(2004). With Jorge Sousa. Transforming the Non-Market Housing System in Ontario: How the Distinctions Between Public Housing and Co-operative Housing Are Breaking Down. Centre for Urban and Community Studies Research Bulletin Number 20, 8 pp.
Forthcoming:
Mook, L., Hann, J., & Quarter J. (submitted). Understanding the Rural Tilt among Financial Co-operatives in Canada. (Under review).
Mook, L., Chan, A., & Quarter J. (forthcoming, 2012). Self-Help and the Social Economy: A Synthesis. Journal of Self-Help.
Chum, A., Mook, L., Handy, F., Schugurensky, D., & Quarter, J. (Submitted). Degree and Direction of Paid Employee/Volunteer Interchange in Nonprofit Organizations (Under review).
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