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Selling Social: Procurement, Purchasing, and Social Enterprises

Sumner, Jennifer (contributor); Quarter, Jack (contributor); … - 2023

Since the 2010s, all levels of governments in Canada have gradually initiated social procurement as a policy tool to further their social values and political agendas. Social enterprises of various shapes and sizes across the country have served as partners in the execution of those agendas....

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Business Meets the Humanities: The Human Perspective in University-Industry Collaboration

Mahnke, Martina Skrubbeltrang (contributor); … - 2023

collaborations beyond academia. Exploring the potential that lies in university-business collaborations, the present anthology …, services, and ideas. Some chapters focus on collaborations between researchers and business practitioners, others focus on …, reflections on, and insights into university-business collaborations. This book, therefore, is intended for researchers within the …

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Universities, Stakeholders and Social Mission: Building Cooperation Through Action Research

Bogacz-Wojtanowska, Ewa; Jedynak, Piotr; Wrona, Sylwia; … - 2023

Today's universities are confronted with questions about the increasing scale of corporatisation and commercialisation, as well as their decreasing activity in the field of the social mission, i.e., engagement in the real problems of ordinary people, local communities and society at large. As a...

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Transitioning to a circular economy: Changing Business Models and Business Ecosystems

Mansuy, Jean (contributor); … - 2022

business ecosystems. The book results from collaborative work between researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and … expertise in sustainable urbanism, transition governance, the redesign of systems, lifecycle analysis, and business model …

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Business education in post Soviet countries

Doghonadze, Natela - In: IBSU Scientific Journal (IBSUSJ) 3 (2009) 2, pp. 19-33

The presented article discusses the history of business education development in post Soviet countries. It is shown …

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MANAGERIAL CHALLENGES IN THE CONTEXT OF USING NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES

BREZOIU, Gabriel-Andrei - In: Business Excellence and Management 2 (2012) 3, pp. 33-42

of a knowledge based society are important factors to influence our way of life, our way of doing business. Understanding … new media challenges is no longer an accessory for many business sectors. Integrating these tools in our processes is not …

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Is There "White Flight" into Private Schools? Evidence from the National Educational Longitudinal Survey

Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2015

Using a recently released confidential dataset from the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), we find some evidence of "white flight" from public schools into private schools partly in response to minority schoolchildren. We also examine whether "white flight" is from all minorities...

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Conception of evaluation of the business’s social responsibility

Филиппова, Ірина; Сумцов, Віктор - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Social responsibility is not only the sphere of ethics, philosophy or moral, because the harm caused by the socially irresponsible conduct has fully material expression. Social responsibility implies hard limitations of process of stock accumulation, that is impossible without the mechanisms of...

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First-Run Smoking Presentations in U.S. Movies 1999-2006

Polansky, Jonathan R.; Glantz, Stanton PhD - Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, UC … - 2007

Smoking among American adults fell by half between 1950 and 2002, yet smoking on U.S. movie screens reached historic heights in 2002, topping levels observed a half century earlier. Tobacco's comeback in movies has serious public health implications, because smoking on screen stimulates...

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On some aspects of business-state relations in Russia

Dyakov, Ignaty - In: Perspectives of Innovation in Economics and Business (PIEB) 10 (2012) 1, pp. 28-34

This article looks at the transition from the model of relationship between business and state, which dominated in … business and state had always been closely connected and interdependent in this country. However, after the collapse of the … Soviet Union, interdependency changed to dependency: while in the 1990s business was dominating the state, on the edge of two …

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