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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Social Entrepreneur"”.
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A career as a social entrepreneur: exploring social enterprise through institutional and critical theories
Social enterprise is a concept with considerable traction and public interest. This critical commentary explores a selection of the public works which I have produced over twenty years as a social entrepreneur, beginning with a seminal, older work which still remains very active in the public …
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Social enterprise and social entrepreneurship in practice.
… that aim to change from a charity to a social enterprise. In addition to this, there are limited knowledge and understanding about what social enterprise and social entrepreneurship are and a lack of frameworks that will enable one to know a social enterprise and social entrepreneur when …
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Social Entrepreneurs in Rio De Janeiro: Learning Experiences and Social Capital
… of this study is to gain insight into how social entrepreneurs dedicated to violence prevention in Rio de Janeiro learn to take on the role of a social entrepreneur. Based on a two-tiered interview process with 27 social entrepreneurs in Rio de Janeiro conducted over a period of nine …
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Core Conversations For The Greater Good: An Exploration Of Intrapersonal Communication As A Self-Leadership Strategy In Social Entrepreneurs
<p>Social entrepreneurs actively create and apply business and communication strategies to support societal causes. They face many leadership and logistics challenges including the need to balance simultaneously mission advocacy and enterprise administration. This qualitative, phenomenological …
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Social entrepreneurship in Kenya: understanding models, drivers, constraints and opportunities for enhanced impact in healthcare
Social entrepreneurship is a rising field, gaining momentum and recognition. With the impact it is already having plus its substantial scope for further growth and influence, it is important to understand the dynamics that drive and affect it as well as the ecosystem it sits within. At present, …
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A life in social entrepreneurship: exploring my learning, beliefs and my future through autoethnographical, institutional, motivational and critical lenses
… to reappraise a trio of my public works as a ‘social entrepreneur’ over a period of 25 years. This reappraisal depicts me as an archetypal ‘bricoleur’, or handy-person, improvising with the resources to hand, successfully synthesising resources from the disparate worlds of the business, public …
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Community engagement in social entrepreneurship: evidence from Kenya
Over the last decade, the value of social enterprises to economies and societies has been increasingly recognised by policymakers and scholars. Driven by a social cause, social enterprises carry out entrepreneurial activities to help address unmet social needs or intractable issues. However, in …
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Collective Case Study Career Critique of Social Entrepreneurs Who Are Gifted Adults
… experiences, supports, and barriers of social entrepreneurs who are gifted adults (SEGA) so that we may nurture the career development of future SEGA. Research questions for this study probed the career development experiences, supports, and barriers of SEGA and the shared social value …
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AN EXPLORATORY EXAMINATION OF THE ETHICAL DECISION MAKING PROCESS OF ENTREPRENEURS THROUGH THE THEORY OF PLANNED BEAHAVIOR LENS: A POLICY-CAPTURING APPROACH
Entrepreneurs face constraints that more mature organizations may not. These constraints cause unique pressures within entrepreneurship. Although ethics and entrepreneurship have individually received much attention in the academic literature, not enough research has investigated ethics within …