{"title":"‘From Depending on Aid to Investing in Social Enterprise’ Doing the Usual Business in an Unusual Way: How Tochi Community Transformation Initiative (TOCOTI) Can Use the Concept of ‘Social Enterprise’ To Harness Sustainable Development in Tochi County","authors":"Walter Onen","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3852036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3852036","url":null,"abstract":"This essay demonstrates that social enterprise is not only the new tool for doing the usual business in an unusual way, but also the “magic bullet” for addressing some of the most precarious challenges especially in developing countries. Because unlike the conventional development narrative which views the poor as infants in need of adults’ guidance, it treats them as equal partners in development. This is further reinforced by the fact that; it starts by addressing the root causes of their problems not the symptoms as the case with aid-driven development discourse. Thus, revolutionizing the entire unjust socio-economic systems which increase their susceptibility to stress factors such as, multidimensional poverty, climate change, and social injustices. This leaves us with no other better option than to say that, gone are days when donors dictate solutions for the misfortunes of the poor. They already have its alternative in the name ‘social enterprise’ which put them at the centre of their own development. Therefore, they should appreciate, try, test and promote it in order to realize sustainable development in their community.","PeriodicalId":385942,"journal":{"name":"ERPN: Social Enterprise (Topic)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126812706","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":"Social Enterprise and Equity Crowdfunding – Exploiting Synergies","authors":"Akshaya Kamalnath","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3729886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3729886","url":null,"abstract":"Australia introduced equity crowdfunding as a mode of financing in 2017. At the beginning of 2020, there are indications that a legal regime for social enterprises will be considered. The social enterprise movement shares some goals and ethos with the equity crowdfunding movement. This article will outline these shared goals and ethos, and argue that because of these shared goals and ethos, the legal regimes for both should be able to share infrastructure to ensure that both industries are able to develop.","PeriodicalId":385942,"journal":{"name":"ERPN: Social Enterprise (Topic)","volume":"40 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134289988","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":"Assessment of Financial Technology Services for Value Co-Creation or Value Co-Destruction in Emerging Economies: ISPAR Model","authors":"Nida Qamar, Ashfaq Ahmad, Sadia Farooq","doi":"10.34218/IJM.11.9.2020.024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.34218/IJM.11.9.2020.024","url":null,"abstract":"Financial Technology (FinTech) has made the lives of customers easier by a combination of the technological and financial sectors, eventually enabling the promotion of Branchless Banking. Pakistan has seen the rapid adoption of Branchless Banking (BB) in the past decade that is evident from encouraging trends during the financial year 2020. However, the application of FinTech is at an evolutionary stage in the services sector, particularly in the banking industry. Service providers face the challenge to resolve the nuances of customers’ journeys due to glitches still existing in BB. This study investigated the issues of FinTech based upon critical incidents that were identified by using netnographic methodology. NVivo 12 plus used for qualitative thematic analysis of the netnographic data. It helps to explore antecedents that may create value co-creation or value co-destruction and its consequences by adopting the ISPAR model of Service Science. Findings indicate that there are few common triggers of value co-destruction such as unhelpful service providers, fraud, nonprovision of services and similarly realization of value, quick feedback, instant resolution of the issue creating value co-creation respectively. This research provides an imputes to BB service providers to focus on the identified antecedents of successful realization of value to thrive in this sector.","PeriodicalId":385942,"journal":{"name":"ERPN: Social Enterprise (Topic)","volume":"208 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116650967","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":"Academy of Korean Studies International Conference: Reciprocity in Comparison: Spain, Vietnam, Italy, and Korea","authors":"D. Han","doi":"10.5947/JEOD.2020.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5947/JEOD.2020.009","url":null,"abstract":"On October 29th, 2020, the Academy of Korean Studies in South Korea held an international conference online. The title of the conference was “Reciprocity in Comparison: Spain, Vietnam, Italy, and Korea”. The research presented was wide-ranging, very relevant to cooperative enterprises, which comprise a large and growing sector of social and business organizations, a sector of ever greater socioeconomic relevance worldwide. Reciprocity and related relational phenomena—trust, solidarity, social capital—, mutuality in general, are all crucially important not only for cooperative organizations, but for healthy and meaningful social life in the widest sense.","PeriodicalId":385942,"journal":{"name":"ERPN: Social Enterprise (Topic)","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128688687","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}
Diana M. Hechavarría, A. Bullough, C. Brush, L. Edelman
{"title":"High Growth Women’s Entrepreneurship: Fueling Social and Economic Development","authors":"Diana M. Hechavarría, A. Bullough, C. Brush, L. Edelman","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3460214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3460214","url":null,"abstract":"High growth firms, often referred to as “gazelles,” are equated with entrepreneurial success and celebrated as the key to growing economies, and women’s entrepreneurship is a vehicle of economic and social development. This special issue publishes papers that address the general lack of research on high growth women’s entrepreneurship. In this introduction article, we offer an adapted framework for the factors driving high growth across multiple levels: individual (entrepreneur and entrepreneurial team characteristics), venture (strategy, organizational structures, and systems), resources, location, and environment. We also introduce the papers in this special issue, and present an overview of the contributions to this issue.","PeriodicalId":385942,"journal":{"name":"ERPN: Social Enterprise (Topic)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115554462","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":"Barriers to Scaling-Up of Women-Owned SMEs in the Philippines","authors":"Maribel Daño-Luna, R. A. C. Caliso","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.3377016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.3377016","url":null,"abstract":"In the Philippines, more than half of new businesses in 2017 are by women. While this is a reflection of equality in opportunities between the sexes, the more critical issue for women entrepreneurs is to stay in business and scale up. Using a survey data from 480 SME respondents from Metro Manila, Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, and Quezon, the study compared 213 women-owned SMEs or WSMEs and 267 men-owned SMEs in terms of: 1) obstacles and enablers for scaling up; and 2) gender gap in accessing factors to scaling-up of SMEs. Findings show that both gender experience similar top constraints and enablers. However, analysis shows that significant gender gap exists in terms of linkages with large and foreign firms – a factor that is associated with WSMEs likelihood to plan to export. \u0000 \u0000An important contribution of this paper to the literature is in testing the relationship between scaling-up of female-owned SMEs and scaling-up factors in terms of 1) loan acquisition; 2) expansion; 3) linkages to large and 4) foreign firms; 5) innovation; and 6) use of technology. WSMEs able to scale up in the last two years are more likely to be linked to foreign firms and use technology compared with WSMEs not able to scale up. Although the barriers faced by women-owned SMEs are related to those by men-owned SMEs, findings show significant differences in their reasons for not accessing or engaging various factors to scaling-up such as loans, innovation, expansion, and exporting. These differences in emphasis on what confronts women-owned SMEs more than men have policy implications for government and other business agencies to understand scaling-up factors and barriers of women-owned SMEs.","PeriodicalId":385942,"journal":{"name":"ERPN: Social Enterprise (Topic)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129742763","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":"Crowdfunding and Social Capital: A Systematic Literature Review","authors":"Wanxiang Cai, Friedemann Polzin, E. Stam","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3361748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3361748","url":null,"abstract":"Crowdfunding has been rising rapidly as a new entrepreneurial finance channel. Research on crowdfunding has also been on the rise recently, with social capital theory as one of the most promising theories for understanding crowdfunding. Research on the relationship between social capital and crowdfunding includes many different perspectives and uses a large variety of classifications of social capital. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive review of how social capital affects crowdfunding. This paper classifies social capital into structural, relational and cognitive dimensions and describes elements of each dimension of social capital based on social capital research. Based on this classification, this paper expands the scope of social capital crowdfunding research to studies involving facets of social capital such as trust and identity. This paper conceptually analyses how each facet of social capital affects crowdfunding. Based on this review of research, a synthetic model is built to explain how different facets of social capital develop in virtual communities and how they interplay with each other and finally affect crowdfunding success. We finish this paper with directions for future research.","PeriodicalId":385942,"journal":{"name":"ERPN: Social Enterprise (Topic)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124425567","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":"Предпосылки развития социального предпринимательства в Болгарии (Prerequisites for the Development of Social Entrepreneurship in Bulgaria)","authors":"V. Terziev, P. Todorov, Vezieva Daniela Todorova","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3142739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3142739","url":null,"abstract":"<b>Russian Abstract:</b> Введение инновационных идей в публичную политику имееет решающее значение в поддержке ценностей одной активной, ориентированной на решение проблем, социальной системы. Эти мнения лежат в основе протекающих социальных реформ в разных странах и направлены на развитие социального предпринимательства и роль социальных предприниматетелей. Внимание направлено на то, что именно социальные предприниматели имеют способность использовать различные ресурсы – человеческий капитал, здания и оборудование, находить гибкие подходы удовлетворения социальных нужд, необходимые соответствующей группе людей. <b>English Abstract:</b> Introduction of innovative ideas in public policy has a decisive value in supporting values of one active, decision-oriented problems, social system. These opinions are the basis for the ongoing social reforms in different countries and aimed at the development of social entrepreneurship and the role of social entrepreneurs. Attention aimed at the fact that it is social entrepreneurs that have the ability use various resources - human capital, buildings and equipment, find flexible approaches to meet social needs, necessary for the relevant group of people","PeriodicalId":385942,"journal":{"name":"ERPN: Social Enterprise (Topic)","volume":"2014 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127538691","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":"Creating Entrepreneurship Through Social Innovation: The Case of I-Box Create","authors":"Carolina Senent-Bailach, A. Rey-Martí","doi":"10.5709/CE.1897-9254.258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5709/CE.1897-9254.258","url":null,"abstract":"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 of this process. To do so, we present findings from a case study of I-Box Create, a socially innovative company based in the Region of Valencia (Spain). We thus put into practice the theory that is presented in the literature. Finally, we present the conclusions and practical implications of the study.","PeriodicalId":385942,"journal":{"name":"ERPN: Social Enterprise (Topic)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131618921","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":"Development of the Concept of Social Entrepreneurship in Europe","authors":"V. Terziev, E. Arabska","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3142933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3142933","url":null,"abstract":"The principles in functioning of social enterprises in Europe are discussed as part of the development of the concept of social economy. Positioning of social enterprises, the risks they face and contemporary challenges are presented focusing on the main conclusions on the ways of social entrepreneurship encouragement in Europe.","PeriodicalId":385942,"journal":{"name":"ERPN: Social Enterprise (Topic)","volume":"os-1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127846426","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}