{"title":"A Rhetoric-Orientation View of Social Entrepreneurship","authors":"Y. Chandra","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2777453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2777453","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to extend the understanding of the ways in which social entrepreneurs give sense to and legitimize their work by introducing a rhetoric-orientation view of social entrepreneurship (SE).,This study uses computer-aided text analysis and computational linguistics to study 191 interviews of social and business entrepreneurs. It offers validation and exploration of new concepts pertaining to the rhetoric orientations of SE.,This study confirms prior untested assumptions that the rhetoric of social entrepreneurs is more other, stakeholder engagement and justification-oriented and less self-oriented than the rhetoric of business entrepreneurs. It also confirms that the rhetoric of both types of entrepreneurs is equally economically oriented.,This research makes new contribution to the SE literature by introducing three new orientations, namely, solution, impact and geographical, which reflect distinctive rhetorical themes used by social entrepreneurs, and by revealing that social entrepreneurs use terms associated with other, stakeholder engagement, justification, economic, solution, impact and geographical orientations differently than business entrepreneurs.","PeriodicalId":244036,"journal":{"name":"Chicago Booth PCE: Entrepreneurship - Other (Topic)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127659636","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":"The Corporate Governance Role of the Media: Evidence from Russia","authors":"I. Dyck, N. Volchkova, Luigi Zingales","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.891206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.891206","url":null,"abstract":"We study the effect of media coverage on corporate governance outcomes by focusing on Russia in the period 1999-2002. Russia provides a setting with multiple examples of corporate governance abuses, where traditional corporate governance mechanisms are ineffective, and where we can identify an exogenous source of news coverage arising from the presence of an investment fund, the Hermitage fund, that tried to shame companies by exposing their abuses in the international media. We find that the probability that a corporate governance abuse is reversed is affected by the coverage of the news in the Anglo-American press. The result is not due to the endogeneity of news reporting since this result holds even when we instrument media coverage with the presence of the Hermitage fund among its shareholders and the “natural” newsworthiness of the company involved. We confirm this evidence with a case study.","PeriodicalId":244036,"journal":{"name":"Chicago Booth PCE: Entrepreneurship - Other (Topic)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115681841","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":"Power in a Theory of the Firm","authors":"R. Rajan, Luigi Zingales","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2091","url":null,"abstract":"Transactions take place in the firm rather than in the market because the firm offers agents\" who make specific investments power. Past literature emphasizes the allocation of ownership as the\" primary mechanism by which the firm does this. Within the contractibility assumptions of this\" literature, we identify a potentially superior mechanism, the regulation of access to critical resources. \" Access can be better than ownership because: i) the power agents get from access is more contingent\" on them making the right investment; ii) ownership has adverse effects on the incentive to specialize. \" The theory explains the importance of internal organization and third party ownership. \"","PeriodicalId":244036,"journal":{"name":"Chicago Booth PCE: Entrepreneurship - Other (Topic)","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132995945","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}