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Alex Nicholls
Researcher at University of Oxford
Publications - 105
Citations - 6617
Alex Nicholls is an academic researcher from University of Oxford. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social entrepreneurship & Fair trade. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 103 publications receiving 6028 citations. Previous affiliations of Alex Nicholls include University of Surrey.
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Social Entrepreneurship: New Models of Sustainable Social Change
TL;DR: Social entrepreneurship is a term that has come to be applied to the activities of grass-roots activists, NGOs, policy makers, international institutions, and corporations, amongst others.
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The Legitimacy of Social Entrepreneurship: Reflexive Isomorphism in a Pre–Paradigmatic Field:
TL;DR: This article conceptualized social entrepreneurship as a field of action in a pre-paradigmatic state that currently lacks an established epistemology, and used approaches from neo-institutional theory to characterize the development of social entrepreneurship in terms of its key actors, discourses, and emerging narrative logics.
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Fair Trade: Market-Driven Ethical Consumption
Alex Nicholls,Charlotte Opal +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the strategic future of Fair Trade is discussed, and the role and value of corporate social responsibility and the brand meaning of fair trade are discussed, as well as the political, legal and economic context of the Fair Trade movement.
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'We do good things, don't we?': 'Blended Value Accounting' in social entrepreneurship
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an exploratory analysis of the emergent reporting practices used by social entrepreneurs in terms of their institutional settings and strategic objectives, using three theoretical interpretations to conceptualize the function and effects of reporting, disclosure, and audit in social entrepreneurship.