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Advance praise: 'From social enterprises to socially responsible investors, Caring Capitalism illuminates the divergent ways both nonprofits and for-profits are using market-based approaches to determine what is purportedly of social value. Rather than convergence on a new standard, Emily Barman finds that social value is polysemic, with elastic meanings that frequently produce surprising goals and ambitions. Barman provides an invaluable service in showing how a new cast of organizations are remaking the meaning of the social good.' Walter W. Powell, Stanford University, California Advance praise: 'In this illuminating book, Emily Barman argues that the proliferation of 'caring capitalism' - efforts by corporations to make the world a better place as well as to make a profit - has redefined the meaning of social value. Barman shows how value entrepreneurs, by creating new ways to measure and implement social value, play a key role in determining how organizations balance the crosscutting demands of the profit industry and the desire to do social good, pushing us to think in a more nuanced way about the confluence of market and mission.' Michael Sauder, University of Iowa

'From social enterprises to socially responsible investors, Caring Capitalism illuminates the divergent ways both nonprofits and for-profits are using market-based approaches to determine what is purportedly of social value. Rather than convergence on a new standard, Emily Barman finds that social value is polysemic, with elastic meanings that frequently produce surprising goals and ambitions. Barman provides an invaluable service in showing how a new cast of organizations are remaking the meaning of the social good.' Walter W. Powell, Stanford University, California 'In this illuminating book, Emily Barman argues that the proliferation of 'caring capitalism' - efforts by corporations to make the world a better place as well as to make a profit - has redefined the meaning of social value. Barman shows how value entrepreneurs, by creating new ways to measure and implement social value, play a key role in determining how organizations balance the crosscutting demands of the profit industry and the desire to do social good, pushing us to think in a more nuanced way about the confluence of market and mission.' Michael Sauder, University of Iowa

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Emily Barman is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Boston University. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago. Her first book, Contesting Communities: The Transformation of Workplace Charity (2006) was awarded the 2007 Association of Fundraising Professionals' Research Prize. Her articles have appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, the Journal of Management Studies, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, and Social Science History.

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