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enterprise performance and survival. We argue that financial incentives can address this problem by redirecting employee … attention to commercial tasks and attracting workers less inclined to fixate on social tasks. In an online experiment with … varying incentive levels, monetary rewards succeed in directing worker effort to commercial tasks; high-powered incentives …
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This article seeks to understand Indigenous social enterprise in a “current state snapshot” and in a complex historical context. Specifically, the authors begin by placing into theoretical context social enterprises serving Indigenous communities. The framework for Indigenous social...
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We conducted a field experiment to identify the causal effects of extrinsic incentive cues on the sorting and … performance of nascent social entrepreneurs. The experiment, carried out with one of the United Kingdom's largest support agencies … randomly assigned to one of three groups: one group received a standard mailing that emphasized the intrinsic incentives of the …
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Entrepreneurial behavior in challenging institutional environments have been widely investigated in the literature. One of the characteristics of these environments is resource scarcity. This is particularly valid in the context of social entrepreneurship and social enterprises. The aim of this...
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This paper explains the increasing popularity of social entrepreneurship and analyzes its company law consequences. Faced with tight budgets, governments are looking to the private sector to develop businesses that serve the interests of the public. Social entrepreneurship is gaining momentum as...
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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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Social enterprise (SE) studies are gaining ground as an emerging research domain owing to the duality characterizing their business models for tapping the triple bottom line (TBL) principle, which is a framework measuring the three pillars of sustainability: people, planet, and profit. This...
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legislative inconsistencies, bureaucracy and the lack of fiscal or financial incentives, the degree of interest in obtaining the …
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Social enterprises have become a natural part of the economy. Their importance is significantly increasing, as well as the need to evaluate their performance. There are different points of view on the indicators and methods used to evaluate their performance and they often lack simplicity and...
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