{"title":"Beyond Box-Ticking: A Study of Stakeholder Involvement in Social Enterprise Governance","authors":"J. Larner, C. Mason","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1870586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1870586","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose – This paper aims to present the findings from a small study of social enterprise governance in the UK, taking a case study approach to uncover the experiences of internal actors who are involved in their board-level management. Design/methodology/approach – The study took a qualitative constructionist approach, focusing on stakeholder involvement in social enterprise governance. Initial theme analysis of 14 semi-structured interviews with board or senior management representatives revealed key issues in the governance of social enterprise, which were then explored through a comparative case study of two organisations. Findings – The study found that social enterprises surveyed employed a number of mechanisms to ensure appropriate stakeholder involvement in their governance, including adopting a participatory democratic structure which involves one or more groups of stakeholders, creation of a non-executive advisory group to inform strategic direction and adopting social accounting with external a...","PeriodicalId":170603,"journal":{"name":"Social Entrepreneurship eJournal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129131899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neoliberalismo, Trabajo, Subjetividad y Microempresa (Neoliberalism, Work, Subjectivity and Microenterprise)","authors":"R. Camargo","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1989544","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1989544","url":null,"abstract":"This paper shows that the spread of neoliberalism as an ideology and key principles of capitalism to the expansion of the late nineteenth century, Latin America mean a profound change in social and productive structures, a redefinition of the subject, and market adoption as the core of development and necessary regarding the evaluation of work, production, individuals, economies and states.","PeriodicalId":170603,"journal":{"name":"Social Entrepreneurship eJournal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130845955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Model of Emergence of Autonomous Social Entrepreneurial Ventures","authors":"Aparna Katre, P. Salipante","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1839827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1839827","url":null,"abstract":"Social-purpose entrepreneurs face issues of survivability and scale in the nonprofit sector, challenging them to operate market-driven ventures without deviating from their social goals. Many entrepreneurs, unable to balance these imperatives, fail, while others succeed and thrive. What \"success factors\" characterize the emergence of survivors, but do not develop adequately in the failures? The data from 23 nascent ventures revealed a four-stage model of emergence with progressive critical success factors on which the successful, struggling and failed ventures could be placed. While effective execution of tasks and activities at each stage helps secure incremental legitimacy with stakeholders – a key determinant of successful emergence – ineffective execution results in loss of legitimacy, venture regression and potential mortality.","PeriodicalId":170603,"journal":{"name":"Social Entrepreneurship eJournal","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130329473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eradicating World Poverty: Microfinancing for Development","authors":"Samantha Levokove","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1831711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1831711","url":null,"abstract":"Poverty is a global issue of great proportions as billions of individual reside in extreme poverty. The United Nations has made efforts and strides to effectively fight poverty, however, their current efforts have been insufficient. Social developers have been engaging in institutionalizing of microfinance and microlending. These ventures have been very successful in effectively building up the local infrastructure as well as increasing the earned income potential of the poor. The United Nations should henceforth, engage in a microfinance venture.","PeriodicalId":170603,"journal":{"name":"Social Entrepreneurship eJournal","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133152732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Differences Does a Century Make? Considering Some Crises in the International Cooperative Movement, 1900 and 2000","authors":"I. Macpherson","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1831081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1831081","url":null,"abstract":"This essay compares the state of the international co-operative movement in 1900 and 2000 in an effort to understand how the international co-operative movement has developed and how it has responded to the main crises of the times. Its focus is largely on the International Co-operative Alliance and it considers crises that emerge from underlying ideological issues, long-range trends, and external events, such as wars and disasters. It describes how the movement has grown and changed over the century, but notes how it has suffered from a knowledge deficit, the growth of the market economy, and the impact of disaster, human and natural. It argues that the most important crises confronting the movement are long-standing though generally more attention tends to be paid to the immediate crises.","PeriodicalId":170603,"journal":{"name":"Social Entrepreneurship eJournal","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130636101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annissa Alusi, R. Eccles, A. Edmondson, Tiona Zuzul
{"title":"Sustainable Cities: Oxymoron or the Shape of the Future?","authors":"Annissa Alusi, R. Eccles, A. Edmondson, Tiona Zuzul","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1726484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1726484","url":null,"abstract":"Two trends are likely to define the 21st century: threats to the sustainability of the natural environment and dramatic increases in urbanization. This paper reviews the goals, business models, and partnerships involved in eight early “ecocity” projects to begin to identify success factors in this emerging industry. Ecocities, for the most part, are viewed as a means of mitigating threats to the natural environment while creating urban living capacity, by combining low carbon and resource-efficient development with the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to better manage complex urban systems.","PeriodicalId":170603,"journal":{"name":"Social Entrepreneurship eJournal","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115275843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Entrepreneurship and Global Health: Catalyzing the Ecosystem","authors":"Julia Li, E. Garnsey","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1923055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1923055","url":null,"abstract":"Innovative financing for global health may stimulate new waves of entrepreneurial activity. Global policies have created new sources of financing to accelerate knowledge generation for healthcare in resource-poor settings. This article outlines the emerging research concerned with the entrepreneurial response to opportunities and incentives at the bottom of the pyramid for healthcare. Questions arise to what kind of business models can be used to provide affordable healthcare on a viable basis. We examine public-private partnerships as one mechanism to catalyze the ecosystem and draw in stakeholders to contribute to the innovation value chain. We integrate entrepreneurship, innovation and ecosystem theories to discuss how the entrepreneurial firm builds resources and creates value in the healthcare ecosystem.","PeriodicalId":170603,"journal":{"name":"Social Entrepreneurship eJournal","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115780716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Firm Creation: A Global Assessment of National, Contextual, and Individual Factors","authors":"P. Reynolds","doi":"10.1561/0300000034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1561/0300000034","url":null,"abstract":"The prevalence of individuals actively involved in business creation among 75 countries varies from one in thirty (Japan, Belgium, France) to one in three (Peru, Uganda). Predictive models reflecting five national aspects — economic, structural, centralized control, population potential for entrepreneurship, and cultural support — are able to account for 63% to 93% of the variation in 23 types of business creation. The most important factors associated with the prevalence of business creation are the capacity of the population to participate in business start-ups, a high prevalence of small businesses, participation of women in the labor force, the presence of informal investors, emphasis on traditional rather than secular–rational values, presence of young adults, and income inequality. The use of log linear regression modeling to predict individual participation in 15 types of business creation explained from 14% to 41% of the variance. Personal attributes, national cultural and social norms, and personal context were much more likely to be associated with individual participation in business creation than characteristics of the national economy, economic structure, population readiness for business creation or centralized control of economic activity. The primary policy implication is that efforts to directly prepare individuals for business creation are more likely to have an impact compared to adjustments in regulatory procedures or legal standards. The assessment demonstrates the considerable value from harmonized cross national data on business creation and national attributes. There remains, however, substantial opportunity for improving understanding of the entrepreneurial process.","PeriodicalId":170603,"journal":{"name":"Social Entrepreneurship eJournal","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116176748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Frontier Economics: Why Entrepreneurial Capitalism is Needed Now More than Ever","authors":"B. Lindsey","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1809996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1809996","url":null,"abstract":"Here in the United States and around the world, we have entered what might be called the era of “frontier economics.” Older, easier sources of growth are drying up and, as a result, the prospects for continued dynamism and prosperity hinge more than ever before on the pioneering entrepreneurial upstarts that explore and extend the technological frontier. As a consequence, the political imperative to maintain satisfactory economic performance is putting national economies under ongoing pressure to free up markets and knock down artificial barriers to competition - in other words, to make their particular versions of capitalism more entrepreneurial. The purpose of this paper is to offer a general explanation of this trend and the social forces driving it.","PeriodicalId":170603,"journal":{"name":"Social Entrepreneurship eJournal","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131406733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Touching Lives: Social Responsibility Model of a Nigerian Entrepreneur","authors":"K. Ogunyemi","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.1795371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.1795371","url":null,"abstract":"Dees (1998) defines entrepreneurship as characteristic of people who adopt a mission to create and sustain social value; recognize and relentlessly pursue new opportunities to serve that mission; continuously innovate, adapt, and learn; act boldly and beyond their resources; and exhibit a high sense of accountability. He sees it as a solution to social issues left unresolved by government and philanthropists. Given the success of the social work carried out by Nike Davies Okundaye, a female Nigerian artist and entrepreneur, this paper investigates how her brand of social entrepreneurship measures up beside the extant literature, and whether it is replicable, especially in developing countries. If it is a good model, then it should be emulated and funding. The approach used is phenomenology, using secondary data about Nike’s work and parameters synthesized by Dees (1998) and Light (2005) seven years apart after deep analyses of the work of earlier scholars.","PeriodicalId":170603,"journal":{"name":"Social Entrepreneurship eJournal","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132744719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}