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Business Strategy/Leadership
Innovation/Technology Management
International Economics
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The changing face of leadership in the global context
The history of civilization has witnessed the rise and fall of great societies. These have evolved complex and sophisticated internal social structures that have required leaders to direct, organize, and alloc...
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Culture: an essential framework for output performance
When the charismatic US President, John. F. Kennedy said “Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country” in his 1961 inaugural speech he made an impassioned and memorable spee...
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You’ve got to find what you love: engagement beyond transaction
This chapter draws together the key themes and discusses the interconnections and mutuality of the constituent topics. The chapter draws to a close with a brief discussion regarding the wider implication of va...
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The Theoretical Foundations of Social Innovation
The field of social innovation has grown up primarily as a field of practice, made up of people doing things and then, sometimes, reflecting on what they do. There has been relatively little attention to theor...
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The Loop, the Lens, and the Lesson: Using Resilience Theory to Examine Public Policy and Social Innovation
The role of social innovation and social entrepreneurship in addressing complex problems has increasingly gained traction in policy-making circles with policy practitioners’ interest piqued about how governmen...
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Social Innovation, Co-operation, and Competition: Inter-organizational Relations for Social Enterprises in the Delivery of Public Services
Social innovation is seen as a way of develo** new approaches to addressing social problems (Phills et al., 2008; Murray et al., 2010). As with innovation in other contexts, collaborative relations are often...
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Social-Ecological Innovation and Transformation
Humanity has entered the anthroposcene era; human activity has become a major driving force in the history of the planet. It is critical to find ways to increase our ability to understand and guide human-envir...
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The ‘Porcupine in the Room’: Socio-Religious Entrepreneurs and Innovators within the Framework of Social Innovation
In Parerga und Paralipomena (1851), Schopenhauer created a parable about the dilemma faced by porcupines in cold weather. He described a ‘company of porcupines’ who ‘crowded themselves very close together one col...
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When David Meets Goliath: Sustainable Entrepreneurship and the Evolution of Markets
Businesses in many industries are increasingly confronted with environmental and social challenges. Rather than just focusing on short-term profits, stakeholders expect firms to meet a triple-bottom line of ec...
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When a cold wind blew in (the dilemma of business leadership, one for all or all for one?)
A senior manager sits at his desk on a bright spring day, waiting for an e-mail. The tension in the office is palpable with concern and fear as today would be the day that individuals would find out whether th...
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Empowerment and risk as a source of competitive advantage
The N form and task organization methodology builds the foundation for an organization that has agility and is able to respond in a dynamic environment. However, this needs to be supported through empowerment ...
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The tools of the trade
Throughout the history of conflict there have been examples of individuals who have seized the initiative and delivered victory from the jaws of defeat. These individual inspirational moments are a far cry fro...
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The Nature of Social Innovation
Historical analyses of macro-level innovation across the developed economies often identify a series of waves of technological change, typically starting with the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth centur...
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Considering Context: Social Innovation in Comparative Perspective
‘Social enterprise’ is a term that is increasingly used across the globe to describe new business solutions to a myriad of social and environmental problems (Alter, 2006). This discourse is often characterized...
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The Limits of Economic Value in Measuring the Performance of Social Innovation
Despite considerable discussion of the nature and role of social innovation in recent years (see Phills et al., 2009), there is much less clarity over the best methods with which to assess its effects and impa...
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Agency in Social Innovation: Putting the Model in the Model of the Agent
Westley defined social innovation as ‘an initiative, product or process or program that profoundly changes the basic routines, resource and authority flows or beliefs of any social system and has durability an...
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Green Technology Implementation in Develo** Countries: Opportunity Identification and Business Model Design
In the last decade the concepts of social entrepreneurship and social innovation have received increasing attention from both the academic and professional communities as promising tools that can inspire socia...
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Social Entrepreneurs in the Social Innovation Ecosystem
This chapter uses social innovation as an analytical concept (Phills et al., 2008) to explore the socially entrepreneurial ecosystem (Bloom and Dees, 2008). Specifically, this chapter aims to contribute to a b...
