Enabling Environments For Social Enterprise Development
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Author | : Rafael Peels |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789221237242 |
Presents a selection of policy measures that governments worldwide are taking to create a supportive environment for the development of social enterprises. Describes both theoretically and empirically and presents good practices taken from various countries all over the world. Shows diverse ways in which government support for social enterprises and social entrepreneurship can be organized. Discusses the existence of specific legal frameworks for a supportive legislative and regulatory environment for social enterprises.
Author | : Mario Biggeri |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2018-09-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1351239007 |
This book provides comprehensive and advanced analysis of the characteristics of social entrepreneurship in Europe. It offers innovative, up-todate research on the ecosystems of social entrepreneurship, the behavior of social entrepreneurs, their ability to produce social innovation, social capital and social inclusion, and the role of stakeholders in fostering socially oriented businesses. Moreover, it addresses the diversity of the European social enterprise sector from an evolutionary perspective, with particular reference to the rise of social entrepreneurship and the role of new-generation social entrepreneurs throughout Europe. Multidisciplinary contributions authored by experts from business and accounting, economics, and sociology serve the purpose of delivering a holistic study of social entrepreneurship, also providing the necessary data for delivering policy implications on the features of the most effective enabling social and institutional ecosystems. The broad approach, based on different theoretical frameworks and methodologies across numerous disciplines, enables the authors to tackle all of the complex research issues connected to social entrepreneurship in the region. The book builds on the results of the European Union 7FP (European Union’s Research and Innovation funding program for 2007–013)-funded “EFESEIIS – Enabling the flourishing and evolution of social entrepreneurship for innovative and inclusive societies” research project. The central theme of the book is an evolutionary perspective on the dynamics and the rise of the social enterprise in Europe. This evolutionary perspective can be used in an economic as well as a social longitudinal analysis of changing contexts and entrepreneurial practices. The evolutionary perspective will be used as a tool to account for the specificity of developmental pathways in different contexts and countries.
Author | : Janelle A. Kerlin |
Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2017-04-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1787146316 |
‘Shaping Social Enterprise’ helps researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and international development actors better understand various institutional paths of social enterprise development and where institutional strengths and weaknesses may be located.
Author | : Tom Fox |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789221237389 |
Summarises the proceedings of a high-level study visit for South African policy makers included time both in the Flemish region of Belgium and the UK, in order to provide insights into the distinctive approaches to social enterprise taken in these two countries and to explore the advantages and disadvantages of particular approaches and interventions. Shows the examples of policy, regulatory, legal and institutional interventions which seek to create an enabling environment for social enterprise development.
Author | : Carvalho, Luísa |
Publisher | : IGI Global |
Total Pages | : 1056 |
Release | : 2015-11-24 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1466695684 |
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Author | : Nagy K. Hanna |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2009-12-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1441915087 |
Private enterprises in advanced economies have been learning to use information and communication technology (ICT) to innovate and transform their processes, products, services and business models, significantly improving productivity and competitiveness. Moreover, the ICT industry itself has become a major source of job creation and a contributor to economic growth and business transformation. A key question today is whether and how developing countries can learn to benefit from the ICT revolution, and what roles the government and private sector can play. Already, a number of developing countries have been inspired by the example of India and China, and are now seeking to jump on the outsourcing bandwagon. Nevertheless, with few exceptions in the developing world, little attention has been paid by policymakers and practitioners to invest systematically and proactively in ICT-enabled growth, poverty reduction and grassroots innovation. Most communities and small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries, for example, face multiple constraints to adopting and leveraging this general purpose technology, and lack the capabilities for maximizing its potential. In "Enabling Enterprise Transformation", Nagy Hanna draws on his rich experience of over 35 years at the World Bank and other aid agencies as a development strategist and ICT policy expert, the most current research, and best practices from around the world to provide practical tools for promoting economic and social transformation through ICT. He assesses various initiatives to develop and diffuse ICT, such as innovation funds, incubators, parks, public-private partnerships, and comprehensive promotion programs. He argues for the strategic options now open for developing countries to participate in ICT production, to deploy ICT to transform industries and services, and to leverage ICT as a new national infrastructure for improving the business environment and enhancing the competitiveness of the whole economy. The challenge for leaders in developing countries is to create such social and institutional dynamics for learning about ICT use and adaptation at many levels. Lessons gained so far from programs to build these social learning and innovation capabilities at the institutional and grassroots levels should be shared among developing countries, and a dialogue among business leaders, policymakers, development agencies, educational institutions, and the general citizenry must be advanced.
Author | : Freer Spreckley |
Publisher | : Grosvenor House Publishing |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2021-10-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1839757078 |
Social Enterprise is a worldwide movement of alternative organisational and business models, but it is sometimes difficult to know precisely the meaning of the term. In Essential Social Enterprise, Freer Spreckley traces the origin and development of social enterprise and shows how, over time, both the term and values have been altered and sometimes misinterpreted. The book praises the growth of supplementary and essential initiatives that widen the support for social enterprise influencing traditional business infrastructure mechanisms. The best known is the triple bottom line of Profit, People and Planet that has become the default criteria for corporate social responsibility. The book's central thesis is that it is excellent to see the growth of complementary social tools and different social enterprise applications, but questions whether these are displacement activities avoiding essential system change to corporate ownership and control. The book argues that the original ideas of social enterprise are urgently needed now. We should go beyond the pleasantries of putting the word 'social' in the title and assuming that means change. Freer puts forward a convincing, clear and radical interpretation in defining Social Enterprise and argues that it is a powerful solution to some of today's problems. These, he suggests, are inequality, environmental degradation, poverty and the fetish of exclusivity and puts forward the solutions of a common ownership entity, governed democratically, with integrated financial, social and ecological guiding principles and combined performance measurement indicators and a planning and evaluation method. The book suggests these changes are of our time and urgently need to be applied by organisations and businesses to create system change and avert a social and environmental decline. Furthermore, Freer argues that organisations need to be regenerative, going beyond sustainability and reversing the tread of societal inequality and ecological catastrophe in how they are owned and controlled, operate and behave. The book proposes that governments worldwide enact legislation to create a 'Social Enterprise Act' to define and hasten new organisations and enterprises to help regenerate society and the environment.
Author | : Oham, Charles |
Publisher | : IGI Global |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2022-02-11 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1799877264 |
Social enterprises often do business in a hostile business environment as they compete for market share with the private sector and address societal and governmental failures. Strategy in social enterprises is concerned with the long-term direction of the business and the implementation of short-term objectives given their current operational challenges, such as a lack of funding, expertise, skills, knowledge, etc. Cases on Survival and Sustainability Strategies of Social Entrepreneurs focuses on how managers formulate a strategy to sustain the social enterprise venture and enable social entrepreneurs to understand and apply strategic management models whilst reviewing practical cases. This book discusses effective strategies social enterprises can adopt to secure their long-term future. Covering topics such as adaptive leadership, social innovation, and sustainable development, this book is ideal for social enterprise managers, trustees of charities, researchers, academicians, and students of social enterprises and management including business management.
Author | : Katharine Briar-Lawson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 019751829X |
This book explains how and why it's important to integrate social entrepreneurship and social enterprises with social and economic development.
Author | : OECD |
Publisher | : OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2009-01-16 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9264055517 |
This book contains recommendations for national and local policy makers and presents a set of international best practices for social enterprises.