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Showing 1 to 20 of 91 for “"social enterprise"”.
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European Social Enterprise Law
… comparative corporate law and governance – the social enterprise corporation. It makes four original contributions to the legal literature. As we shall see in due course, although European social enterprise law features the five basic legal characteristics that are often associated with the …
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The research on social enterprise legal systems - to establish the social enterprise legal system in China
… Meanwhile, economic crisis also brought about social problems such as unemployment, environmental deterioration, etc., which raised the need of public services. Responding to this situation, some traditional non-profit organizations began to utilize market-based approaches to solve these social …
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Work integration social enterprise: a NEET idea
… As part of this strategy work-integration social enterprises (WISEs) have become providers of employment enhancement programmes (EEPs) that aim to improve the employability of NEETs, in part due to the 'added value' that WISEs are seen to bring to such programmes. However, this perception, …
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Examining Competitive Intensity and Social Enterprise Performance
This thesis explores how Social Enterprises’(SE) manage their economically-driven activities with their mission-related activity and how these impact their relative economic and social performance. Given the little research that has been done on external factors within SEs, competitive intensity …
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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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Exploring the role of empathy in social enterprise
… into account transpires as valuable for social development and crucial in many situations in everyday life. The root definition of empathy, a term coined in 1858 by Rudolf Lotze based on a translation of the Greek term: empatheia, defines empathy as an ability to recognise oneself in …
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Towards a paradigm shift in social enterprise: taking the mystery out of social enterprise in voluntary and community sector local development agencies
… attempt to support groups who want to start a social enterprise. The research was informed by the work of an Action Research Group (ARG) which was undertaking action research into how to develop a regional infrastructure to support the development of social enterprise. This was distinct to the …
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The concept of social enterprise: an analysis of the current tax environment and proposed enabling tax incentives to aid the social enterprise
A social enterprise is a revenue-generating business with primarily social objectives whose surpluses are reinvested for that purpose in the business or in the community, rather than being driven by the need to deliver profit to shareholders and owners (BC Centre for Social Enterprise 2012). These …
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Contextualising social enterprise : hybrid entrepreneuring in the creative industries
Social enterprise provides a foundation for community-based organisations that aim to address local and societal issues through mission-centred and income-generating activities. Theoretical interest in social enterprise continues to grow across many fields of academic inquiry, including within …
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Developing a Social Enterprise: An Investigation of Promoters and Barriers
Social enterprise is increasingly discussed in policy documents and academic literature, but there is poor understanding of how social enterprise organisations emerge and develop. A goal of this PhD study was to understand the emergence and nature of social<br/>enterprise, the promoters and …
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An analysis of Intellectual Capital within a social enterprise context
… of how intellectual capital was employed within social enterprises. In support of this aim, following the literature review, three research questions were developed. These were developed to investigate how the individual constructs of intellectual capital (human, structural and relational …
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Systemic Design for organizational innovation to foster social enterprise development
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Collective Action in Transitioning States: A Study of Social Enterprise
For many governments, the rise of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship has been politically beneficial, with the state actively engaging with these organisations to help deal with the social issues they are unable to (Kerlin, 2009). This has been particularly prevalent in developing …
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Social enterprise business models: identifying the trading concepts that inform them.
Social enterprises provide services and goods to alleviate social problems, and adopt business models to ensure financial sustainability. Differentiated from commercial enterprises due to their primary social mission, and from traditional nonprofit organisations due to their implementation of …
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John Pearce's Radical Social Enterprise and Alasdair MacIntyre's Ethics: A Critical Synthesis
… the compatibility of Pearce’s conception of social enterprise with MacIntyre’s virtue-practice-institution framework. The aim is that through the synergy of the work of these two authors, a relationship between virtues as understood by MacIntyre and Pearce’s view of social enterprise will be …
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From ballet studio to business school: dancing in the social enterprise in-betweens
The Centre for Social Enterprise at Memorial University of Newfoundland was officially launched in 2017. With me in the role of founding manager, it became a hub of expertise and activity on social enterprise, specific to Newfoundland and Labrador, the most easterly province of Canada. During my …
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From Social Enterprise to Social Movement: Organizing for Change in the Global South
… design and structure ‘solutions’ for deep-rooted social problems and support marginalized groups who lack voice to speak for themselves. Theoretically, I draw on institutional theory and social movement theory, and it is to these perspectives that my research seeks to contribute. Empirically, my …
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The ‘everyday’ political economy of social enterprise: lessons from Grameen Shakti in Bangladesh.
… international concern for both the corporate social responsibility of businesses and the market-compatibility of charitable projects, a new field is sparking interest in government, business and academic circles. The burgeoning field of ‘social enterprise’ incorporates a variety of …
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The role of social enterprise in the transition to a low carbon energy system
… investigation is to review the value of applying social enterprise in community owned energy schemes as a form of social innovation. This thesis reports on original research undertaken on the Role of Social Enterprise in the Transition to a Low Carbon Energy System. Through an in-depth case study …
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