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4 - Rehabilitating South Shore

from Part II - Collaborative Capitalism Explored

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2018

Rashmi Dyal-Chand
Affiliation:
Northeastern University School of Law
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Summary

This chapter discusses my third case study. The collaborative business network that has developed in Austin, Texas is a newer network of for-profit businesses that were started almost a decade ago by a large nonprofit organization, Southwest Key Programs. The central mission of the nonprofit is to serve immigrant youth and children by providing safe shelters, culturally relevant education, and other services. This organization used its own market needs to generate a small cluster of businesses to serve those needs. The network includes a café that provides catering for Southwest Key’s charter school in Austin. It also includes a cleaning company that provides cleaning and landscaping services to the school and to Southwest Key’s headquarters. And it includes a sizeable job placement company. Southwest Key serves as an intermediary in the network that promotes the sharing of key resources. For example, it serves as a source of financing, shared management, and “back-office” support for the businesses. Its most important function may well be to have served as the initial source of stable demand for each of the businesses. In turn, the businesses contribute to Southwest Key’s mission by employing a fair number of the parents of the children it serves.
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Collaborative Capitalism in American Cities
Reforming Urban Market Regulations
, pp. 75 - 117
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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