Professor Jo Barraket

National Research Director

Professor Jo Barraket is Director of the Centre for Social Impact Swinburne, where she commenced in April 2014. Prior to this, she was Associate Professor of Social Enterprise at the Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies at Queensland University of Technology.

Professor Baraker is a leading researcher in the areas of social enterprise, social innovation and relationships between governments and the third sector in social policy development. She has more than 55 publications in these areas, including her most recent book, Social Procurement and New Public Governance (Routledge: 2016). Her work has contributed to policy development and practice in social enterprise and development of the social economy. Based on her expertise in these areas, Professor Barraket has been the national expert adviser to the OECD on two projects related to the social economy and socio-economic participation. She has led more than $8 million in grant-funded and commissioned research, including national competitive grants funded by the Australian Research Council and projects funded by corporate and private philanthropy, and state and local governments.

jbarraket@swin.edu.au
03 9214 3881

Publications by Professor Jo Barraket

Barth, S., Barraket, J., Luke, B. & McLaughlin, J. (2015) Acquaintance or Partner? Social Economy Organisations, Institutional Logics and Regional Development in Australia, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development DOI10.1080/08985626.2015.1030458 [ABDC A]

Furneaux, C. and Barraket, J. (2014) Purchasing social good(s): A definition and typology of social procurement, Public Money and Management 34 (4): 265-272 [ABDC A]

Barraket, J., Keast, R. & Newton, C. (2014) 'Spontaneous Volunteering' in M. Oppenheimer & J. Warburton (eds) Volunteering in Australia. Annandale: The Federation Press

Luke, B., Barraket, J. & Eversole, R. (2013) Measuring value versus valuing measures: Evaluating performance of social enterprise, Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management 10 (3/4) 234-258. [ABDC B]

Miles, M. P., Verreynne, M-L., Luke, B., Eversole, R. & Barraket, J. (2013) The Relationship of Entrepreneurial Orientation, Vincentian Values and Economic and Social Performance in Social Enterprise, Review of Business Research 33 (2), 91-102. [ABDC C]

Eversole, R., Barraket, J. & Luke, B. (2013) Social enterprises in rural community development, Community Development Journal DOI 10.1093/cdj/bst030 [ABDC B]

Campin, S., Barraket, J., & Luke, B. (2013) micro-Business Community Responsibility in Australia: Approaches, Motivations and Barriers, Journal of Business Ethics, 115 (3), 489-513[ABDC A]

Barraket, J. (2013) Fostering wellbeing of immigrants and refugees? Evaluating the outcomes of work integration social enterprise in S. Denny and F. Seddon (eds) Social Enterprise Accountability and Evaluation Around the World. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, pp 102-119

Barraket, J. & Yousefpour, N. (2013) Evaluation and social impact measurement amongst small to medium social enterprises: process, purpose and value. Australian Journal of Public Administration 72 (4): 447-458 [ABDC A]

Barraket, J. & Furneaux, C. (2012) Social Innovation and Social Enterprise: Evidence from Australia. In F. Hans-Werner, J. Hochgerner, & J. Howaldt (eds) Challenge: social innovation Springer, pp. 215-237

Ling, S., Barraket, J., Luke, B. & McLaughlin, J. (in press) Acquaintance or Partner? Social Economy Organisations, Institutional Logics and Regional Development in Australia, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development DOI 10.1080/08985626.2015.1030458 (ABDC A)

Postgraduate Supervision

Truong Tuan Anh - How small and medium enterprises embrace "creating shared value" strategy successfully

Open for supervision in areas related to social enterprise, social innovation, social economy, and the role of the third sector in social policy

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