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Social Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa
Rivera-Santos, Miguel; Holt, Diane; Littlewood, David; … - 2017
, this article focuses on contextual influences on social entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa. We identify four …-perception and the choice of activities in defining social entrepreneurship. Our study also highlights the importance of African … contextual dimensions for understanding social entrepreneurship, and underlines the added value of incorporating insights from …
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Is Social Enterprise the New Corporate Social Responsibility?
Page, Antony; Katz, Robert - 2012
Since at least the famous Berle-Dodds debate, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and later its more muscular and structural iteration, progressive corporate law, have been discussed without much progress. The authors consider whether the social enterprise movement, which envisions a new...
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Intellectual Capital in Social Enterprises
Cohen, Sandra; Salavou, Helen - 2019
Over the last decade, the phenomenon of social entrepreneurship has experienced impressive growth in different …
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Social Entrepreneurship - A Model for Sustainable Value Creation
Pirson, Michael - 2013
The concept of social entrepreneurship is discussed and examined for its potential to support sustainable value …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095209
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To Be or Not to Be (a Security) : Funding For-Profit Social Enterprises
Heminway, Joan MacLeod - 2013
This article explores the federal securities law status of financial interests in for-profit social enterprise entities. When analyzed through the lens of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, financial interests in social enterprise businesses raise both concerns...
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Entrepreneurial orientation in South African social enterprises
Teles, Daniella; Schachtebeck, Chris - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 7 (2019) 3, pp. 83-97
Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate to what extent an Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) exists within social enterprises in South Africa. Research Design & Methods: The study was quantitative in nature and used a descriptive research design, utilising an adapted measuring...
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Social enterprise : gender gap and economic development
Nicolás, Catalina; Rubio, Alicia - In: European journal of management and business economics : … 25 (2016) 2, pp. 56-62
Companies created by women represent a substantial part of entrepreneurship. While men outnumber women in … entrepreneurship rates, the gender gap decreases in the case of social enterprises. This may be explained by the fact that roles and … study the gender gap in social and commercial entrepreneurship, distinguishing between enterprises with less than 42 months …
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Creating entrepreneurship through social innovation : the case of I-Box Create
Senent-Bailach, Carolina; Rey-Martí, Andrea - In: Contemporary economics 11 (2017) 4, pp. 479-486
Social innovation enriches cities and drives their development by enabling improvements to products, services, processes, and methods. In this article, we define the concept of social innovation and explain which factors are essential to the social innovation process. We also examine the stages...
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Disentangeling gut feeling : assessing the integrity of social entrepreneurs
Achleitner, Ann-Kristin; Lutz, Eva; Mayer, Judith; … - 2011
This paper analyzes how social investors evaluate the integrity of social entrepreneurs. Based on an experiment with 40 professionals and 40 students, we investigate how five attributes of the entrepreneur contribute to the assessment of integrity. These attributes are the entrepreneur's...
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Of Future Founders and Heroic Tales - Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development
Ziegler, Rafael - 2010
As a contribution to the discussion of the still young history of social entrepreneurship (SE) in Germany, we want to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199662