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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"social value creation"”.
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Understanding social value creation in public construction projects using systems thinking
Interest in social issues increased in EU member states and the UK where this interest was shown via public policy documents and governmental initiatives to create social value as part of the procurement activities of construction projects. This encouraged construction client organisations to use …
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Entrepreneurial enactment as social value creation: an exploration of the Aberdeen entrepreneurial ecosystem.
… explored how entrepreneurial enactment leads to social value creation in the entrepreneurial ecosystem using interpretive qualitative approach. The research and findings are delivered in a structured narrative. This approach is adopted to reveal how entrepreneurial enactment traverses economic …
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The Legislative Complexities of Municipal Real Estate Transactions in the Context of Social Value Creation
… theme of these objectives is the delivery of social value to the local community. This dissertation aims to determine to what extent legislative requirements applicable to the sale and lease of municipal immovable property to third parties support the realisation of social value objectives, as …
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Social value creation within Social Enterprise Places (SEPs) : a case study of Salford SEP and Plymouth SEP
Social enterprises help to regenerate deprived areas through social value creation. A recent mechanism designed to facilitate regeneration is the Social Enterprise Place (SEP) scheme. While the concept of partnership has been adopted for synergetic results and outcomes between the private and …
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Social value creation through community engagement in public service delivery: A qualitative comparison of UK and Vietnamese contexts
… 1992). However, it is also argued that the values created by the market and the state are in conflict, since the goal of the private sector is to create private (economic) value whilst that of government agencies is to create public (social) value (Moore and Khagram, 2004). This leads to an …
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Social Media and Knowledge Sharing. The Impact on Social Value Creation and Organisational Performance of UK Social Enterprises
… to specialist organisations such as social enterprises to address complex social problems, leading to a rise in their numbers. These organisations regularly access difficult to reach, disadvantaged and disenfranchised communities and tend to be smaller in size and turnover than …
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Unveiling the role(s) of informal third sector deliverers : towards a conceptual framework to understand the process of social value creation among informal third sector groups
… using an alternative methodological approach to Social Return on Investment (SROI) to reconceptualise value measurement. It focused on four ITSGs in Blackpool in the North West of England, each of which, at surface level addressed different needs: The Goods Bank (provision of basic resources to …
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Conceptualising Social Value: Perspectives of the Public, Private and Third Sectors in the UK
… organisations to maximise the provision of social benefit. The UK Government, for instance, launched the Social Value Act in 2012 and implemented it in 2013, requiring organisations to create social and environmental value in addition to the economic value during public procurement …
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Essays on Social Venture Antecedents, Consequences, and Strategies
Social ventures are organizations created to exploit opportunities for social value creation (Lumpkin et al., 2011; Zahra et al., 2009). In fact, scholars argue that the main distinction between commercial and social entrepreneurship lies in the relative priority given to social wealth creation …
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To both/and, either/or, in-between, and beyond! Queering the normative construction of entrepreneurship for the inclusion of queer entrepreneurs.
… entrepreneurship as a mechanism for economic and social value creation is driving demand for more inclusive, diverse, and pluralist knowledge on entrepreneurship that is representative of marginalised populations' lived experiences. Many have already introduced alternative constructions of …
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Advancing Sustainable Business Models For Social Enterprises: Conceptual Development And Empirical Insights [before doctoral defense]
Social enterprises with their dual value creation currently play a vital role in tackling social and environmental problems while contributing to economic development and fostering innovation. Although a substantial body of research exists on this subject, insufficient attention has been given to …
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The clinic and the community: exploring the role of the designed environment in the creation of social value
… healthcare organizations can function as social entrepreneurs, using the designed environment as a critical resource to address health and wellness issues within the community beyond their usual medical services. By taking this approach, organizations would not only help mitigate social …
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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 …