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Social entrepreneurship in Portugal
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In this article, the authors provide a reflection about the usefulness of the concept of social entrepreneurship to Portuguese third sector organizations (TSOs) with the purpose of understanding the paths undertaken by the latter.Abstract:
Purpose – This paper provides a reflection about the usefulness of the concept of social entrepreneurship to Portuguese third sector organizations (TSOs) with the purpose of understanding the paths undertaken by the latter. Departing from a theoretical synthesis inspired by different approaches to social entrepreneurship, the purpose of this paper is to offer an operative view of the concept in light of the problematics of social innovation and organizational innovation. Design/methodology/approach – The empirical analysis focuses on the intervention models and management models of these organizations. It uses a sequential methodological approach that combines extensive and intensive analyses. Findings – The author has concluded that Portuguese TSOs show a fragile form of social entrepreneurship. This includes, among others, state dependency both in terms of models of financial management and the definition and regulation of activities, recipients and social intervention. This leads the author to claim, e...read more
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Social entrepreneurship: A critical review of the concept
Ana Maria Peredo,Murdith McLean +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an analytical, critical and synthetic examination of social entrepreneurship in its common use, considering both the "social" and the "entrepreneurship" elements in the concept.
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Social Entrepreneurship: A Critical Review of the Concept
Ana Maria Peredo,Murdith McLean +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an analytical, critical and synthetic examination of "social entrepreneurship" in its common use, considering both the social and the entrepreneurship elements in the concept, with significant differences marked out by the prominence of social goals and what are thought of as the salient features of entrepreneurship.
Social Innovation: What it is, why it matters and how it can be accelerated
TL;DR: The results of social innovation are all around us as mentioned in this paper, such as self-help health groups and self-build housing; telephone help lines and telethon fundraising; neighbourhood nurseries and neighbourhood wardens; Wikipedia and the Open University; complementary medicine, holistic health and hospices; microcredit and consumer cooperatives; charity shops and the fair trade movement; zero carbon housing schemes and community wind farms; restorative justice and community courts.
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Conceptions of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship in europe and the united states: convergences and divergences
Jacques Defourny,Marthe Nyssens +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the concepts of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship are making amazing breakthroughs in EU countries and the United States and the debates on both sides of the Atlantic have taken place in parallel trajectories with few connections among them.