SDRC - Sustainable Development Research Centre

Post Graduate Programmes

	PhD / MPhil
	DBA

Social Enterprise Management:

The Social Enterprise Research Unit (SERU) is based within the Sustainable Development Research Centre at Forres. SERU will take forward SDRC's research into social enterprise and sustainability.

SERU undertakes research to evaluate mainstream management theory and techniques, in order to develop innovative approaches in support of social entrepreneurs. The Unit explores the commonalities and points of divergence between ethically managed ‘mainstream’ businesses and ‘social enterprises’. This will allow the Unit to compare the activities of social enterprises and corporate social responsibility of mainstream businesses. SERU will also undertake research into activities related to social enterprises and procurement, in particular the public sector

Achieving social outcomes through public procurement

SERU led the research activity within SDRC’s partnership with Social Enterprise East Midlands’ BEST Procurement EQUAL funded development partnership. Whilst the BEST Procurement partners worked on a wide range of market interventions with public procurers and social enterprise suppliers in the East Midlands to improve the correlation between public spending and social outcomes, SERU undertook one of the largest and longest qualitative field study projects in this field in the UK, working alongside organisations measuring changes over time and testing theory on how that change occurs.

Following on from their involvement in the BEST Procurement Programme, SDRC intend to continue and extend their research into topics relating to social enterprise.

Current Projects

Completed Projects

Social Enterprise Forum

Sustainable Development Research Centre The Enterprise Park, Forres, Moray IV36 2AB

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