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Enabling the Original Intent: Catalysts for Social Entrepreneurship
VanSandt, Craig; Sud, Mukesh; Marmé, Christopher - In: Journal of Business Ethics 90 (2009) 3, pp. 419-428
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To control or not control: A coordination perspective to scaling
Sezgi, Funda; Mair, Johanna - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2010
scaling and has been focused on branching, affiliation and dissemination as three main organizational modes, each with their … by social enterprises in their scaling attempts and fleshing out mechanisms at play for the functioning of these modes … achieve associated with different modes of scaling. …
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Competing with New Product Technologies: A Process Model of Strategy
Das, Shobha S.; Ven, Andrew H. Van de - In: Management Science 46 (2000) 10, pp. 1300-1316
This paper draws upon research in the economics of technical change and in the social construction of technology to develop and test a process model of strategy. We conducted a longitudinal study of leading firms that were sponsoring new and competing product technologies in two industries: the...
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Indicators for Complex Innovation Systems
Katz, Sylvan - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2005
Innovation systems are complex systems that can exhibit scaling and emergent properties. Predictable and measurable … scaling correlations exist between measures commonly used to characterize innovation systems and national economies. This … paper examines scaling relationships between GERD & GDP and between GDP & population and uses them to construct scale …
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Scaling of prosocial behavior in cities
Arbesman, Samuel; Christakis, Nicholas A. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 390 (2011) 11, pp. 2155-2159
scaling with population. We find that, unlike productivity and innovation, prosocial behaviors do not scale in a unified … related to innovation and productivity has been found to increase per capita as the size of the city increases, a phenomenon … known as superlinear scaling. Criminal behavior has also been found to scale superlinearly. Here we examine a variety of …
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Social Economy, Its Perception and Possibilities of Its Development in Conditions of the Slovak Republic
PCOLINSKÁ, Lenka - Centre International de Recherches et d'Information sur … - 2014
The given article reflects the situation of Slovak social economy. It takes into account and presents the evolution of social economy and its present perception in Slovakia. Within the Central European countries, Slovakia was the first country to define social economy in terms of legislative...
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SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN CROATIA
Udovicic, Ana; Marosevic, Katarina; Bratic, Katarina Arnold - In: Interdisciplinary Management Research 10 (2014), pp. 644-654
Today, social entrepreneurship attracts growing attention in different sectors.. During the last two decades social entrepreneurship becomes focus of the researcher and theorist. Social entrepreneurs are seen as reformers that transform ways of performance in social and business sphere. The term...
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French, Spanish and Italian Model of Functioning of a Social or a Solidary Economy
Pongrácz, Eva - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2015
Advanced EU economies support and develop the social economy and social entrepreneurship, which contributes to building competitiveness and performance of the country. The concept of the social economy is not viewed uniformly in all Member States. France is considered the cradle of the...
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Social entrepreneurship: the new narrative for the practice of the social economy
Toledano, Nuria - In: CIRIEC-España, revista de economía pública, social y … (2011) 73, pp. 9-31
In recent years, the notion of social entrepreneurship and its manifest linkage with the economic development and social change has quickly gained prominence in the general discourse of academics and policymakers. A social justification or motive is a key issue in the account for its existence....
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Social Economy, Entrepreneurship and local development: the case of 'Arcturos' environmental centre
Trikka, Margarita; Charitoudi, Georgia - European Regional Science Association - 2013
The concept and the activities of social economy are not particularly developed in Greece. Several institutions have made some attempts to change that during the past few years but they failed due to the lack of the proper and flexible institutional frame that would administratively and...
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