Social Enterprise In Asia

Author : Howard Thomas,Havovi Joshi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000449921

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Asia's Social Entrepreneurs by Howard Thomas,Havovi Joshi Pdf

Social enterprises of all forms drive inclusive growth by creating social and economic networks, and a stable ecosystem, that enable societies to grow and prosper. This book presents a collection of ten case studies that demonstrate the important role played by social enterprises in driving inclusive growth in Asia’s economies. Unlike the traditional models, such as NGOs and charities, that are donor dependent for funding, a social enterprise is a hybrid business model that includes both social mission and revenue generation goals to ensure sustainability and self-reliance. The ten case studies in the book provide a ringside view of how social enterprises operate and evolve to create, sustain, and scale up their social impact. Readers will gain a practical understanding of how social entrepreneurs struggle to maintain a balance between their two seemingly contradictory goals of creating social value and generating economic returns. The book carries the readers on the journey of each of these ten social enterprises, offering unique and valuable insights into the motivations, tribulations, successes, and even failures of these organisations—critical for continued learning, contribution, and innovation in the domain. The book is appropriate for all readers interested in the role social entrepreneurship plays in stimulating economic growth in Asia, including organisations, government, and universities, as well as individuals.

Author : Eric Bidet,Jacques Defourny
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429560750

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Social Enterprise in Asia by Eric Bidet,Jacques Defourny Pdf

In the absence of a widely accepted and common definition of social enterprise (SE), a large research project, the "International Comparative Social Enterprise Models" (ICSEM) Project, was carried out over a five-year period; it involved more than 200 researchers from 55 countries and relied on bottom-up approaches to capture the SE phenomenon. This strategy made it possible to take into account and give legitimacy to locally embedded approaches, thus resulting in an analysis encompassing a wide diversity of social enterprises, while simultaneously allowing for the identification of major SE models to delineate the field on common grounds at the international level. These SE models reveal or confirm an overall trend towards new ways of sharing the responsibility for the common good in today’s economies and societies. We tend to consider as good news the fact that social enterprises actually stem from all parts of the economy. Indeed, societies are facing many complex challenges at all levels, from the local to the global level. The diversity and internal variety of SE models are a sign of a broadly shared willingness to develop appropriate—although sometimes embryonic—responses to these challenges, on the basis of innovative economic/business models driven by a social mission. In spite of their weaknesses, social enterprises may be seen as advocates for and vehicles of the general interest across the whole economy. Of course, the debate about privatisation, deregulation and globalised market competition—all factors that may hinder efforts in the search for the common good–has to be addressed as well. The first of a series of four ICSEM books, Social Enterprise in Asia will serve as a key reference and resource for teachers, researchers, students, experts, policy makers, journalists and other categories of people who want to acquire a broad understanding of the phenomena of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship as they emerge and develop across the world.

Author : Stephen Dun-Hou Tsai,Ted Yu-Chung Liu,Jersan Hu,Shang-Jen Li
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814612760

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Entrepreneurship in Asia by Stephen Dun-Hou Tsai,Ted Yu-Chung Liu,Jersan Hu,Shang-Jen Li Pdf

This book focuses on the importance of entrepreneurship in sustaining the prosperity of society and uses the case studies from Taiwan, Japan as well as China, to provide an insight into Societal Entrepreneuring in Asia, and the construction of an entrepreneurial society. In order to provide a comprehensive and complete picture on entrepreneurship, the authors have also included both case studies of commercial endeavors as well as non-profit making business endeavours. These collective experiences would be invaluable to readers who are seeking to understand the role of entrepreneurship in Asian society. Contents:Market Entry and Resource Acquisition Strategies for Social Enterprises (Jersan Hu, Leemen Lee and Zong-ying Zhou)Social Value Creation through Innovation of Social Technology (Tzu Yang Chang)Creating Social Value through Frugal Innovation (Anthony Kuo)Social Impact Measurement for Social Enterprise (Tzu Yang Chang, Gautam Kamath and Chien Hsien Lee)Reliability Bookkeeping for Non-Financial Transactions of the Social Network Organization (Yasuhiro Monden)A Horizontal Inter-firm Network of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Specializing in Prototype Solutions: Business Model, Management Control, and External Effects (Naoya Yamaguchi)A Discussion of Community of Practice and the Construction of Organization Core Competence — A Case Study of BS Supplementary Education Group (Stephen Dun-Hou Tsai and Chih-Yu Lee)Pioneering Social Entrepreneurs in Japan: Financial Performance and Social Achievement (Akira Sawamura and Satoshi Arimoto)The Socially Constructed Industry Landscape through Entrepreneurial Practice Innovation: Health-Care Product Industry in China (Stephen Dun-Hou Tsai and Meng-Chen Wu)Contiguous Entrepreneurship in a Modern Food and Beverage Business Group — the Perspective of Complex Adaptive System (Shang-Jen Li)How Cultural Product Could Re-create the Representation of Region: A Story About Organizing (Ted Yu-Chung Liu and Jung-Chih Hung)Narrating an Entrepreneurial Process — A Case from Taiwan's Outlying Islands (Ming-Rea Kao and Shelley Hui-Yin Lin) Readership: Researchers and professionals who are interested in understanding the importance of entrepreneurship in sustaining the prosperity of society. Key Features:The book provides in-depth description of entrepreneurial case studies from Taiwan, Japan and China, and illustrates how entrepreneurship activity emerge and develop in these countriesKeywords:Social Enterprise;Grass-rooted Entrepreneurial Stories

Author : Marie Lisa M. Dacanay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Entrepreneurship
ISBN : UCSD:31822035250539

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Creating a Space in the Market by Marie Lisa M. Dacanay Pdf

Author : Janelle A. Kerlin
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781584658160

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Social Enterprise by Janelle A. Kerlin Pdf

The first comparative look at how social enterprise is shaped by local conditions worldwide

Author : Webb, Heather C.,Wu, Wendy,Al Numairy, Hussain
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781799841968

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Innovation Management and Growth in Emerging Economies by Webb, Heather C.,Wu, Wendy,Al Numairy, Hussain Pdf

Despite its economic impact, understanding what shaped emerging economies’ success seems to be a mystery. These complexities are compounded by fast moving technologies, such as the increased usage of artificial intelligence (AI) and the internet of things (IoT). These new technologies have a social impact, but it is how these impacts are developed and managed by people and companies that is significant. Similarly, it is important to investigate how the uncertainties and intangible factors are dealt with and how businesses can utilize innovative approaches to become adaptive in emerging market economies. Research is needed to determine how actors or businesses interact to shape and define either new institutions, new industries, or new innovation to meet the need of potential customers in emerging economies. Innovation Management and Growth in Emerging Economies explores how innovation from emerging economies is being developed through strategic choices and presents the benefits and the drawbacks, the processes, and the characteristics and management practices of both private and/or public organizations. The chapters identify the trends and approaches to innovation development as well as the strategies of adapting and converting threats and challenges into opportunities. The target audience of this book is composed of practitioners, policy influencers, course instructors, professionals, academicians, students, and researchers in the fields of business, administrative sciences, management, and economics.

Author : Jacques Defourny,Marthe Nyssens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000367225

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Social Enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe by Jacques Defourny,Marthe Nyssens Pdf

In the last two decades, the quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise has been a central issue in a great number of publications. The main objective of the ICSEM Project (on which this book is based) was to show that the social enterprise field would benefit much more from linking conceptualisation efforts to the huge diversity of social enterprises than from an additional and ambitious attempt at providing an encompassing definition. Starting from a hypothesis that could be termed "the impossibility of a unified definition", the ICSEM research strategy relied on bottom-up approaches to capture the social enterprise phenomenon in its local and national contexts. This strategy made it possible to take into account and give legitimacy to locally embedded approaches, while simultaneously allowing for the identification of major social enterprise models to delineate the field on common grounds at the international level. Social Enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe – the last volume in a series of four ICSEM-based books on social enterprise worldwide — will serve as a key reference and resource for teachers, researchers, students, experts, policy makers, journalists and others who want to acquire a broad understanding of the social enterprise and social entrepreneurship phenomena as they emerge and develop in this region.

Author : Janelle A. Kerlin
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781787142510

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Shaping Social Enterprise by Janelle A. Kerlin Pdf

‘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 : Ernest Lim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108952101

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Social Enterprises in Asia by Ernest Lim Pdf

Social enterprises are regarded as a vital solution to the pressing problem of socio-economic inequality and play a crucial role in the delivery of public goods and services. Ernest Lim argues that social enterprises in four leading Asian jurisdictions – India, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia – should have a new legal form. This entails advancing a nuanced and comprehensive framework consisting of five criteria: (1) corporate purpose; (2) directors' duties; (3) decision-making powers; (4) reporting, impact measurement and certification; and (5) distribution of dividends, assets, and tax benefits. This invaluable work demonstrates that the existing legal forms in common law Asia, the UK and the US do not properly address the various conflicts of interest affecting social enterprises. An essential read for those interested in understanding and evaluating the laws and regulations on social enterprises, as well as designing and implementing creative ones to protect and promote these important businesses.

Author : Marie Lisa M. Dacanay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Poor
ISBN : 9719454512

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Social Enterprises and the Poor by Marie Lisa M. Dacanay Pdf

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Handelshøjskolen i København, 2012.

Author : Sarah Lai-Yin Cheah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000300796

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Social Innovation by Sarah Lai-Yin Cheah Pdf

In the world of creating new ventures with the single goal of achieving financial profitability, it is well known that nine of ten startups are likely to fail. For new social ventures that have the twin goals of financial profitability and social inclusiveness, the chances of failures are even higher. This book provides insight into the common struggles of social activists and the strategic responses necessary to not only overcome their organizational issues but also address the world’s pressing social challenges. The book not only traces the journey of the social activists in growing their social ventures to flesh out real-life issues but also introduces the latest management thinking on social innovation in daily business decision. This book makes a useful contribution in furthering the concepts of social innovation and entrepreneurship and inspiring more change agents to create and implement effective, scalable and sustainable solutions to address social issues and meet the needs of the disadvantaged groups in the society.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789290927396

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India Social Enterprise Landscape Report by Asian Development Bank Pdf

Social enterprises hold the potential to make India's spectacular growth story work better for its poor citizens. India's rapidly growing economy has not managed to alleviate extreme poverty, which encompasses nearly half the country's population. Reasons for this situation include inadequate infrastructure, unreliable state delivery of affordable education and health services, and resource limitations. By employing innovative business models, social enterprises are addressing India's vast development needs in a sustainable manner using viable revenue models. More and more impact investors are entering India's social enterprise space with an interest in supporting businesses with triple bottom line returns---that is, profits (or at least financial sustainability), and social and environmental impact.

Author : Medhekar, Anita,Saha, Sreeparna,Haq, Farooq
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781799886594

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Strategic Cooperation and Partnerships Between Australia and South Asia: Economic Development, Trade, and Investment Opportunities Post COVID-19 by Medhekar, Anita,Saha, Sreeparna,Haq, Farooq Pdf

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced countries around the globe into lockdown, imposing trade and travel restrictions with devastating economic impacts on all sectors of the economy. In working toward greater economic stability, Australia has been strengthening its trade relations with other countries, which is reflected through its increased strategic relations with India. However, it is now essential to explore how Australia is working to further expand its collaboration with other South Asian countries and find new markets and opportunities for trade, investment, tourism, international education, and business dealings for its resources, services, manufacturing, and technology sectors. Strategic Cooperation and Partnerships Between Australia and South Asia: Economic Development, Trade, and Investment Opportunities Post COVID-19 provides an overview of the Australian trade and investment relationship with South Asian countries and identifies the trends and developments of bilateral trade agreements in strategic areas of trade, tourism, investment, education, prior and post COVID-19. Covering topics such as international trade, climate change policy, and macroeconomics, it is ideal for policymakers, practitioners, industry professionals, government officials, academicians, researchers, instructors, and students.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264272262

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A Decade of Social Protection Development in Selected Asian Countries by OECD Pdf

Over the past ten years economic growth in Asia has contributed to a reduction of poverty as well as fertility rates, and greater prosperity has contributed to gains in life expectancy.

Author : Rama Krishna Reddy Kummitha
Publisher : Springer
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811016158

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Social Entrepreneurship and Social Inclusion by Rama Krishna Reddy Kummitha Pdf

This book argues that embeddedness and community participation bring unique propositions for social entrepreneurship to foster social inclusion. It uncovers the role of local knowledge and grassroots level innovations to create necessary environment for the positive social change to roll. Social enterprises have proven to reduce drudgery of poor and excluded by offering creative and innovative solutions for long standing social problems. The grassroots level creative problem solving mechanisms they initiate travel through a variety of local dynamics and cultural contexts. However, social innovations quite often do not achieve their intended results, especially when they fail to understand the local contexts and embed themselves in such dynamism. In this background, the book attempts to understand and analyse the 'connect' between the social innovations and local dynamism. It argues that the community-driven innovation management which is based on local knowledge inspires the social entrepreneurial process and builds capacities and infrastructure to foster social inclusion. Each chapter in this book offers development scholars rich narration about how social problems have been approached, addressed, and altered through rich insights from communities and the social entrepreneurial teams.