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Investigating the Outcome Performance of Work-Integration Social Enterprises (Wises): Do WISEs offer 'added value' to NEETs?

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  • Richard Hazenberg
  • Fred Seddon
  • Simon Denny

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This study takes a comparative approach to study the 'outcome' performance of a work-integration social enterprise (WISE) and a 'for-profit' work-integration organization that both provided employment enhancement programmes to NEETs. Participants at both organizations completed general self-efficacy questionnaires before and after engagement on the programmes. Additionally, semi-structured interviews and focus groups were held with the owners and staff at both organizations. The results revealed no significant difference between the 'outcome' performance of the WISE and for-profit organization. However, an analysis of the organizational aims, values and structures suggests that the 'added value' offered by the WISE came from the different induction policy that it operated.

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  • Richard Hazenberg & Fred Seddon & Simon Denny, 2014. "Investigating the Outcome Performance of Work-Integration Social Enterprises (Wises): Do WISEs offer 'added value' to NEETs?," Public Management Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(6), pages 876-899, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:pubmgr:v:16:y:2014:i:6:p:876-899
    DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2012.759670
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    1. Novkovska, Blagica, 2017. "Severity Of The Issue Of Excluded Young People In Macedonia From Education, Trainings And Employment: How To Cope With?," UTMS Journal of Economics, University of Tourism and Management, Skopje, Macedonia, vol. 8(3), pages 295-306.
    2. Szijarto, Barbara & Milley, Peter & Svensson, Kate & Cousins, J. Bradley, 2018. "On the evaluation of social innovations and social enterprises: Recognizing and integrating two solitudes in the empirical knowledge base," Evaluation and Program Planning, Elsevier, vol. 66(C), pages 20-32.

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