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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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entrepreneurship requires different configurations of human capital than commercial entrepreneurship. We develop a multilevel framework … to analyse the commonalities and differences between social and commercial entrepreneurship, including the impact of … general and specific human capital, of national context and its moderating effect on the human capital-entrepreneurship …
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We investigate the reasons for the pronounced regional differences of new business formation after the transformation from a socialist planned system to a market economy in East Germany. Relatively high start-up rates are found in regions that had a well-qualified workforce and a relatively high...
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The main goal of social entrepreneurship is to achieve organisational performance while facing various challenges … that government institutional support can revitalize social entrepreneurship through financial support and various policy … measures. In addition, social entrepreneurship can increase the creation of social change to meet their social needs, known as …
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The density and typology of existing social services in a given country are dependent on a set of factors including the social model, cultural, social and legal traditions, the general regulatory framework and those specific to the labour market, protection and social assistance, demo-economic...
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Empowerment is one of the most important social value creation activities performed by social enterprises (SEs). Despite the burgeoning research on SEs, there is limited research on the meaning and aspects of empowerment from the SE perspective, or the so-called SE-as-Empowerment research. In...
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Objective: The objective of this research is to elaborate a framework that explores the relationships between the performance of high-growth enterprises and the characteristics of regional entrepreneurial ecosystems (EEs). Research Design & Methods: This conceptual article adopts a...
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Nonprofits across the nation are increasingly launching earned-income ventures to support their social missions. Even though this is not a new strategy for many nonprofits, for the sector as a whole it is a fundamental shift from traditional sources of revenue. This study identifies and...
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than stifles entrepreneurship. Policymakers should give entrepreneurs the space to act in the midst of crises by expanding …
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society self-reliant and ultimately raise the standard of living of the people. Entrepreneurship per se can be categorized in … enquiry into various facets of social entrepreneurship …
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