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Corporate social responsibility and the UK's leading internet service providers
Jones, Peter; Comfort, Daphne; Hillier, David - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 8 (2012) 3, pp. 308-318
This paper offers a review of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) agendas currently being publicly addressed by the UK's top ten internet service providers (ISPs). The paper begins with a brief outline of the problems associated with growing internet usage and this is followed by a...
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An overview of CSR reporting development in China
Britzelmaier, Bernd; Kraus, Patrick; Xu, Yan - In: World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and … 8 (2012) 3, pp. 319-339
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting nowadays is an important issue in most countries. Due to environmental pollution problems and social disparities in China, CSR has become a prominent issue in Chinese academic and policy forums as well. Therefore, the paper shall give an up to date...
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Le financement des entreprises sociales- une comparaison France-Californie : Accès aux fonds propres et aux financements moyen terme
Blazy, Clémentine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper aims at comparing French and Californian social businesses' financial structure and their access to equity and equity-like funding. The author finds from the study of an 800-French social businesses sample that these French organizations suffer from a lack of access to this type of...
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Social business, accountability, and performance reporting
Rahman, Mawdudur; Hussain, Mostaq - In: Humanomics: The International Journal of Systems and Ethics 28 (2012) May, pp. 118-132
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the theory and applications in social business and accountability. Design/methodology/approach – The paper develops the theoretical arguments, shows the importance of non-accounting measures, explores available non-accounting measures...
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Business models for people, planet (& profits): exploring the phenomena of social business, a market-based approach to social value creation
Wilson, Fiona; Post, James - In: Small Business Economics 40 (2013) 3, pp. 715-737
This article explores the hybrid phenomenon of social business, that is, both a form of organization and a practice that deliberately harnesses market dynamics to address deeply rooted social issues through the design and implementation of a core product or service. This new form of hybrid...
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Adventures in Fair Trade
Sloneker, Mark - In: Tennessee's Business 20 (2011) 1, pp. 6-8
Helping Laotian artisans find larger markets to preserve age-old skills and improve living standards
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Routing and dispatching of multiple mobile agents in integratedenterprises
Elalouf, Amir; Levner, Eugene; Cheng, T.C.E. - In: International Journal of Production Economics 145 (2013) 1, pp. 96-106
Agent-based technology provides a natural way to design and implement enterprise collaboration. We model the integrated manufacturing enterprise as a directed graph and reduce the problem of enhancing the efficiency of mobile agents to the problem of finding resource-constrained extremal paths...
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Can social enterprise contribute to creating sustainable rural communities? Using the lens of structuration theory to analyse the emergence of rural social enterprise
Steinerowski, Artur A; Steinerowska-Streb, Izabella - In: Local Economy 27 (2012) 2, pp. 167-182
Recent public policies increasingly emphasize the role of communities in service co-production. Collaboration between the state and the public is frequently associated with social enterprise activities. However, the assumption that social enterprises can be successfully built and developed in...
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Social Entrepreneurship in the Context of Romania’s European Integration
Bibu, Nicolae Aurelian; Orhei, Loredana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The social sector or social economy is still at a developing stage and the concept of social entrepreneurship is just … in the emergence phase in Romania. There is still a lot to do in this field, in order to create sustainability among the … actors of the social economy or social sector. The paper will attempt to emphase the differences between entrepreneurship in …
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Recensione a Muhammad Yunus - "Un mondo senza povertà" (2008)
Reggiani, Tommaso - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe, bringing with them enormous potential for positive change. But traditional capitalism cannot solve problems like inequality and poverty, because it is hampered by a narrow view of human nature in which people are one-dimensional beings...
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