Community businesses are their aims confused?

Abstract

Glen Buchanan has given a chilling outline of the conditions from which community businesses have arisen, and communicated something of the idealism of their genesis. Mike Jacobs shares the ideals, but is worried by the way in which they are expressed. He writes: “Glen claims that community businesses are ‘completely different’ from public and private sector companies. I think they could be, but the way Glen describes them they are probably not.”