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Social Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Towards a Convergent Theory of the Entrepreneurial Process

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In this paper, the authors trace these discourses and perspectives as a backdrop to under-standings of the nature of enterprise and the entrepreneur in the 20th century and present them as a basis for the present article.
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Throughout the 20th century multiple discourses of the nature of enterprise and the entrepreneur have developed. In this article, we trace these discourses and perspectives as a backdrop to underst...

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A Typology of Social Entrepreneurs: Motives, search Processes and Ethical Challenges

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define social entrepreneurship and discuss its contributions to creating social wealth; offer a typology of entrepreneurs' search processes that lead to the discovery of opportunities for creating social ventures; and articulate the major ethical concerns social entrepreneurs might encounter.
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Social Enterprises as Hybrid Organizations:A Review and Research Agenda*

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify hybridity, the pursuit of the dual mission of financial sustainability and social purpose, as the defining characteristic of social enterprises, and assess the impact of hybridity on the management of the SE mission, financial resource acquisition and human resource mobilization.
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Research in social entrepreneurship: past contributions and future opportunities

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of this literature reveals that conceptual articles outnumber empirical studies, and empirical efforts often lack formal hypotheses and rigorous methods, and that social entrepreneurship research remains in an embryonic state.
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Venturing for Others with Heart and Head: How Compassion Encourages Social Entrepreneurship

TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw on research on compassion and prosocial motivation to build a model of three mechanisms (integrative thinking, prosocial cost-benefit analysis, and commitment to alleviating others' suffering) that transform compassion into social entrepreneurship.
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The Strength of Weak Ties

TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the degree of overlap of two individuals' friendship networks varies directly with the strength of their tie to one another, and the impact of this principle on diffusion of influence and information, mobility opportunity, and community organization is explored.
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The theory of economic development

TL;DR: Buku ini memberikan infmasi tentang aliran melingkar kehidupan ekonomi sebagaimana dikondisikan oleh keadaan tertentu, fenomena fundamental dari pembangunan EKonomi, kredit, laba wirausaha, bunga atas modal, and siklus bisnis as mentioned in this paper.
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The Constitution of Society.

TL;DR: In this article, a continuously conveyed series of uniformly dimensioned panels of thin sheet material are counted and stacked from the bottom against an abutment edge of a stationary but rotatable cam plate.
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