For two decades, fair trade has served as an alternative approach of trading that encourages minimal returns, sustainability, and ethics, by offering producers in developing countries better trading conditions and secured rights. This movement has emerged recently in China, with companies...

This article investigates the concepts and issues of social enterprise, social entrepreneurship, their sustainability and strategic dimension. Regarding the current two contradictory forms of entrepreneurship (commercial and social entrepreneurship) in terms of their nature, motivation, purpose...

Social Entrepreneurship (SE) practice has become one of the solutions to the economic and social problems of the community during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study examines the role of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Best Practice, which acts as a mediator in the influence of SE toward...

This study explores entrepreneurial orientation (EO) in Finnish social enterprises in a social context using a mixed-methods approach. As a result, we propose that the generic dimensions of EO apply in a social context with minor refinements but suggest an additional dimension of persistence....

This study uses a systematic review in examining the factors that may have a negative impact on social enterprises in Indonesia within an institutional framework. An institutional framework was used in this study to update existing studies. Moreover, this study is also intended to explore the...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) towards sustainable development has been identified as a marketing philosophy that businesses in developed countries should pursue in the post-Covid-19 era as these practices deal with urgent global social and environmental challenges. Such efforts...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the association between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and earning management of listed Vietnamese companies. Both accrual earning management (AEM) and real earning management (REM) are calculated on yearly basis from 2016-2020. Information on CSR...

The study aims to investigate the relationship between board characteristics, earnings management, insolvency risk, and corporate social responsibility (CSR). The first objective examines the relationship between the board of directors’ characteristics (i.e. board financial expertise,...

This study explores the complementary role of acquisition/assimilation and transformation/exploitation in the absorptive capacity in the perspective of knowledge absorptive capacity. For this, depending on human capital and resource-based view, this study pays attention to the interaction effect...

This study applies human capital theory to link social entrepreneurs' characteristics and the performance of social ventures. Especially, considering the dualistic nature of social ventures, we investigate two specific human capital of entrepreneurs, such as prior social experience and prior...