Not Business As Usual (2014. Home - A Better Life Foundation. The New-Economy Movement. By GAR ALPEROVITZ The idea that we need a “new economy”—that the entire economic system must be radically restructured if critical social and environmental goals are to be met—runs directly counter to the American creed that capitalism as we know it is the best, and only possible, option. Over the past few decades, however, a deepening sense of the profound ecological challenges facing the planet and growing despair at the inability of traditional politics to address economic failings have fueled an extraordinary amount of experimentation by activists, economists and socially minded business leaders. Most of the projects, ideas and research efforts have gained traction slowly and with little notice. But in the wake of the financial crisis, they have proliferated and earned a surprising amount of support—and not only among the usual suspects on the left.
For-profits have developed alternatives as well. Obviously, any movement that urges changing the system faces major challenges. Benefit corporation. A benefit corporation or B corporation is a corporate form in the United States designed for for-profit entities that want to consider society and the environment in addition to profit in their decision making process. Benefit corporations differ from traditional corporations in regards to their purpose, accountability and transparency. The purpose of a benefit corporation is to create general public benefit, which is defined as a material positive impact on society and the environment.
A benefit corporation’s directors operate the business with the same authority as in a traditional corporation, but where in a traditional corporation shareholders with proper standing judge the company's financial performance, here they judge qualitative performance based on the benefit corporation's stated goals. Shareholders in a benefit corporation determine if the benefit corporation has achieved a material positive impact. History[edit] Benefit corporations and corporations contrasted in law[edit] What are B Corps? CALIFORNIA CORPORATIONS CODE. The Vermont Statutes Online. Benefit Corporation. Craig Everett's Official Website - Home. Calvert Investments - Homepage. Social Movement Impact Theory, wikipedia. Social Movement Impact Theory (otherwise known as Outcome Theory) is a subcategory of social movement theory, and focuses on assessing the impacts that social movements have on society, as well as what factors might have led to those effects.
History[edit] Social Movement Impact Theory has been studied far less than most other subcategories of Social Movement Theory, mostly due to methodological issues. It is relatively new, and was only introduced in 1975 with William Gamson's book "The Strategy of Social Protest," followed by Piven and Cloward's book "Poor People's Movements" [1][2] In his groundbreaking study, Gamson studied 53 social movement organizations from between 1800 and 1945, and collected data regarding their success. Two years later, Piven and Cloward published the controversial "Poor People's Movements," which argued that power structures are threatened by disorganized and disruptive people. Methodology[edit] Major Debates[edit] Channels of Protest[edit] Organizational vs.