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Nurturing Youth Entrepreneurship to Tackle Youth Unemployment : A Case Study of Kerala

Kuriakose, Francis - 2016

Reducing Youth Unemployment is going to be one of the most important goals of nations in the coming decade. The … International Labour Organization estimates that out of the 1 billion youth, 201 million are unemployed. The UN has adopted reducing … and job opportunities are well known, the study on youth entrepreneurship is relatively recent. Youth are bracketed under …

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Relational goods, monitoring and non-pecuniary compensations in the nonprofit sector : the case of the Italian social services

Mosca, Michele (contributor); Musella, Marco (contributor); … - 2006

This paper investigates the nonprofit wage gap suggesting a theoretical framework where, like in Akerlof (1984), effort correlates not only with wages, but also with non-monetary compensations. These take the form of relational goods and services by-produced in the delivery of particular...

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Social Return on Investment, Value Added and Volunteer Work

Pace, Eduardo Segio Ulrich; Basso, Leonardo Cruz - 2013

This study aims to evaluate the return on investments and its capacity to add value in Third Sector entities, enlarged by the inclusion of aspects of volunteer work. It consists of a descriptive survey of an intentional sample, which identifies multiples that form an integral part of accounting...

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Exercising Leadership : The Prospects of Social Entrepreneurship and High Impact Philanthropy (HSG 2004)

Martin, Maximilian - 2009

Global mega-trends are rearranging social reality. They affect formal contexts, individual identities, and group dynamics on a scale that seems historically unprecedented. We often look to people in positions of formal authority for the necessary leadership to steer groups and organizations...

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Employee Motivation in Social Enterprises : Tackling the Dual Mission Dilemma

Zainuddin, Mohammad - 2018

Social enterprises are on a dual mission of creating social value and achieving profitability. This combination of non-profit and for-profit identities within a single entity creates tensions and dilemmas at the organizational level. Tensions may emerge across various domains and the enterprise...

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Self-Regulation of Social Enterprise

Galle, Brian D. - 2017

Social enterprise is a form of corporate organization in which firms are empowered to distribute profits, but are also free to trade off profit for other socially beneficial ends. Benefit corporation statutes, the most popular form of social enterprise legislation, provide that social enterprise...

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A Theoretical Evaluation of Social Enterprise

Beckmann, Tobias - 2016

The recent surge of social enterprises has focused governments', academics' and practitioners' attention on alternate organisational structures and mechanisms that benefit the disadvantaged. However, very little economic theory has been applied to these new organisational forms to determine...

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Revenue drift, incentives, and effort allocation in social enterprises

Vladasel, Theodor; Parker, Simon C.; Sloof, Randolph; … - 2022

Revenue drift, where insufficient attention is given to economic, relative to social, goals, threatens social enterprise performance and survival. We argue that financial incentives can address this problem by redirecting employee attention to commercial tasks and attracting workers less...

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Social Enterprises and Welfare Systems. The Role of Multi-Stakeholder Governance and Price Discrimination

Tortia, Ermanno C.; Borzaga, Carlo - 2021

Social enterprises (SEs) have been active for some decades and have been regulated by law in several countries. Their operation showed ability to complement the provision of welfare services, especially social services, by the public sector and private enterprises, and to innovate in the...

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Social Enterprises and COVID-19 : Navigating between Difficulty and Resilience

Borzaga, Carlo; Tallarini, Giulia - 2021

The spread of COVID-19 and the consequent restrictive measures that became necessary in the first months of 2020 hit Italy hard. With this research, summarised here and published in the IV Iris Network report on social enterprises in Italy, the authors investigate COVID-19’s impact on social...

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