What makes civil society organizations effective performers? What are key practices for businesses creating social value activities as a part of their overall operations? This book aims to enable social and business leaders to gain a greater understanding of how to achieve high performance in terms of social value creation.

Based on the results of a two-year research (40 cases) process on how successful social and business organizations in Ibero-America achieve superior social performance, Effective Management of Social Enterprises presents the most comprehensive and in-depth analysis of such practices ever undertaken in this region. The following commentaries demonstrate the book's quality and relevance:

The Social Enterprise Knowledge Network has produced a remarkable book. It empirically demonstrates that, now that citizen sector has become as entrepreneurial and competitive as business, and now that businesses increasingly are pursuing social goals, success for both requires strikingly similar approaches to leadership, management, and even culture. A rare compass for civic and business sector leaders in a new world.
- William Drayton, Founder and CEO of Ashoka: Innovators for the public, Founder and Chair of Youth Venture.

The SEKN researchers have written the most comprehensive and detailed guide to understand and integrated view of social value and economic value, in a way most useful to the social and private sectors. They make a significant contribution on how to act socially responsibly as part of core business strategy.
- Francisco Garza, President CEMEX North America and International Trading, Founder of CEMEX`s Patrimonio Hoy Program.

A tour de force collaborative effort that has produced a wonderful collection of best practice case studies of social enterprises in Latin America and Spain. Nonprofits and corporations should use the book's insights to guide their agendas for producing social value.
- Robert Kaplan, Baker Foundation Professor, Harvard Business School (co-developer of the Balanced Scorecard).

In this ground-breaking volume of forty case studies culled from among both corporations and civil society organizations, the SEKN researchers make a compelling case that organizations in the commercial and non-profit worlds have a great deal to learn from one another, and that there is vast potential for cross-fertilization of best practices and ideas. As a growing number of businesses look to generate social value and social organizations increasingly sell ways to improve their management strategies, this volume should prove invaluable to leaders in both sectors, especially those looking for ways to enhance the effectiveness of an organization's social development endeavors.
- Luis Alberto Moreno, President, Inter-American development Bank.