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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"social business"”.
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Hvetur „Social Business Software“ til nýsköpunar í íslenskum fyrirtækjum?
Social Business Software ef samfélagsmiðill fyrir skipulagsheildir en markaður þess hefur margfaldast ári frá ári og mun áfram gera það, sérstaklega í Evrópu. Miðillinn hefur auka notagildi á við hefðbundna upplýsinga- og samskipatækni er varðar samskipti og deilingu gagna. SBS á að geta aukið …
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Combating the growth of slums using for-profit social business models
… recent growth of the microfinance industry and social investing, this thesis investigates how for-profit social investment techniques could be used to create housing and combat the growth of slums. It compares various for-profit social business models and provides a "toolbox" of potential …
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Personal Boundary Issues in Counselor-Client, Professor-Student, and Supervisor-Supervisee Relationships in Counseling
… was designed to explore the acceptability of social, business, and romantic relationships in counselor-client, professor-student, and supervisor-supervisee relationships. In addition, the study sought to determine whether professors and doctoral students in CACREP-accredited counseling …
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The Phoenix Effect - Rising from Crisis through Digital Collaboration: How Crisis affects Social Enterprises’ Digitalization for Value Co-Creation
Relevance of social entrepreneurs in rural destination development is also important. It is hard for rural regions to sustain communities and attract tourists. Thus, it is often social businesses that are involved in developing innovative and creative ideas, products and services. Mottiar, Boluk, …
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Collection and representation of GIS data to aid household water treatment and safe storage technology implementation in the northern region of Ghana
In 2005, a start-up social business called Pure Home Water (PHW) was begun in Ghana to promote and sell household water treatment and safe storage (HWTS) technologies. The original aim of the company was to offer a variety of products, allowing customers to choose the technology which best fit …
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Teaching EFL/ESL College-level Learners through Current Global Topics: Integrated Lessons for EFL/ESL Teachers
… in communicating and interacting in a variety of social settings is highlighted in today’s highly globalized world. Being able to understand and discuss complex global topics related to current cultural, social, and business issues and events has become an integral skill of English learners to …
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Teaching ESL/EFL: The Role of Cultural and Intercultural Knowledge, Skills, and Competence
… and strategies for using English in a variety of social, business, or academic interactions. Immigrants, refugees, and international students need to learn more than the linguistic structure of the English language. To communicate effectively and competently, they need to learn cultural and …
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An Investigation into the Phenomenon and Discourse of Working Out Loud.
… through unification of a discourse of social business and a discourse of personal development/self-actualisation. By conflating different meanings of the word help across the two discourses, the primary subject position created in the discourse effectively aligns individuals’ personal …
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Evaluation of a socially oriented intermediary organisation that supports low-to-middle-income communities in developing energy communities in South Africa and Colombia
… must provide multi-faceted support across social, legal, technical, and financial dimensions to support communities. Furthermore, given the identified barriers in both countries, the proposed intermediary organisation could act in Colombia and South Africa. Finally, the social business …
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The Makaa Project : co-design, performance testing, and techno-economics to improve a Ugandan charcoal cookstove
… Energy Saving Technologies (AEST) is a social business enterprise that manufactures and distributes the Makaa charcoal cookstove and a long-time partner of MIT's D-Lab. This work is a collaboration with AEST to improve the performance, usability, and manufacturability of the Makaa stove. …
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A holistic framework for environmental change: socio-environmental cohesion for sustainability
… issues have become a regular debate within social, business and political arenas. The need to combine social, environmental and economic systems to achieve a sustainable future (Triple Bottom Line), is gaining prominence within many international development projects. The study of …
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Corporate governance and corporate performance: Implications for transition economies
… governance modes in different international business systems: the Anglo-Saxon, the Communitarian, and the Asian/emerging business systems. The review of the literature covers the link between corporate governance and the agency problem on the basis that the latter is concerned with the …
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Designing Successful Social Ventures: Hands-on Feedback-Seeking Engagement with Stakeholders to Unravel What To Do Next
Social change models based on altruism have proven inadequate to fully address the complete range of basic but unmet societal needs. In recent times, organizations have begun experimenting with profit-generating business models to produce sustained social change; such “hybrid” organizations possess …
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The Impact of Interpersonal Relationships and Incentive Structures on the Performance of Actors in Informal Supply Chains
… papers, the first of which (Chapter 2) explores business relationships in the context of emerging market retail supply chains. Attempts to distribute durable, life-improving goods to customers at the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) have struggled to succeed at scale. One potential explanation is poor …
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The effect of interactive technology on informal learning and performance in a social setting
… on informal learning and performance in a social business setting inhabited by knowledge workers. The central phenomenon examined is the variance in behavioral intention towards interactive Web 2.0 technologies in learning and performance-related activities, depending on social and cultural …
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Urban district heating network delivery: a socio-technical analysis of large-scale district heating network implementation in urban environments
… by examining the perspectives and experiences of social actors, as well as the framings and factors that influence the distinct interrelationships between socio-technical systems, context, and settings in the DH implementation process.Through the application of the multilevel perspective on …
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The Emersion of Low-Profit Limited Liability Companies: A Case Study of the Implementation of Hybrid Organizations in Louisiana and North Carolina
<p>A new business entity designed for social entrepreneurs to embrace is gaining acceptance in a number of states, including Louisiana and North Carolina. The new entity, the low-profit limited liability company (L3C), is a byproduct of the current two options of operating, as a traditional private …
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Explaining organisational business process adoption mechanisms - A critical realist perspective on social reflexivity and process affordances
The implementation of new business processes can be problematic for organisations. Employees tend towards reluctant behaviour when confronted with organisational change that requires adoption of new workflows and work tasks. The crucial importance of people affected by change has been highlighted …
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Serving Communities During a Global Pandemic: Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 on Ukrainian Social Enterprise
Due to their innovative capacity and social mission, social enterprises build resilience and cohesion in communities by providing for vulnerable groups that governments and markets tend to overlook. In the recovery from COVID-19, while countries attempt to regain lost ground towards their …
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Alternative Income Generating Opportunities: A Case Study in Mezquital, Mexico
… regarding solutions that will produce positive social and economic multipliers in their local community and region.
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