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Effective Management of Social Enterprises: Lessons from Businesses and Civil Society Organizations in Iberoamerica
L. Serrano,Monica Bose,Daniel Arenas,Gabriel Berger,Patricia Márquez,Gerardo Bustos Lozano,Elsa Del Castillo,João Teixeira Pires,Elidia Novaes,Forrest D. Colburn,Alfred Vernis,Enrique Ogliastri,Mladen Koljatic,Roberto Gutiérrez,J. Flores,Josefina Bruni Celli,Francisco Leguizamón,Red de Conocimiento sobre Emprendimientos Sociales,Mónica Silva,Iván Darío Lobo,Ezequiel Reficco,Mateo Lesizza,Diana Trujillo,Andrea Prado,Paulo de Rocha Borba,James E. Austin,Rosa Maria Fischer +26 more
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The core purpose of social enterprise is to create value for the betterment of society, which lies at the center of the framework and is the end toward which all other elements in the framework must contribute.Abstract:
The core purpose of social enterprise is to create value for the betterment of society. This aim lies at the center of the framework and is the end toward which all other elements in the framework must contribute. Greater alignment of these elements with the central purpose produces higher organizational coherence which contributes to superior performance.read more
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(Re)Forming Strategic Cross-Sector Partnerships: Relational Processes of Social Innovation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the relational processes that underpin social innovation within strategic cross-sector partnerships using four longitudinal narratives to document the duality of success and success and fa...
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Understanding Value Creation in Social Entrepreneurship: The Importance of Aligning Mission, Strategy and Impact Measurement
Jarrod Ormiston,Richard Seymour +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a framework for understanding the value created by social entrepreneurs, presenting theoretical and practical insights into impact measurement, and suggest the presence of a mission measurement paradox that affects social entrepreneurs in their attempts to measure social impact and understand value creation.
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Measuring Value Creation in Social Enterprises A Cluster Analysis of Social Impact Assessment Models
TL;DR: In this paper, a hierarchical cluster analysis was developed based on a sample of 76 SIA models to group them in macro-categories and help social entrepreneurs choose the model that is best suited to the needs of their organization.
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Strategy, Resource Orchestration and E-commerce Enabled Social Innovation in Rural China
TL;DR: This research utilizes the concept of resource orchestration as a theoretical lens to develop a fit model that explicates how resources are orchestrated under the guidance of either an indigenous, exogenous or collaborative strategy to achieve e-commerce enabled social innovation.
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Social enterprises in tourism: an exploratory study of operational models and success factors
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply Alter's 2006 seven-model framework of social enterprise models to a sample of successful enterprises, finding that touristic social enterprises operate similarly to those in other sectors, although with a clear preference for three Alter models, depending on the type of activity, namely Service Subsidisation, Employment and the Market Intermediary Model.
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