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China Hebei province energy enterprises dataset. [PDF]

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Dongliang MA, Hui Y.
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Social enterprises in rural community development

Community Development Journal, 2013
Social enterprises are hybrid organizational forms that combine characteristics of for-profit businesses and community sector organizations. This article explores how rural communities may use social enterprises to progress local development agendas across both economic and social domains.
Eversole, R., Barraket, J., Luke, B.
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The importance of social capital in Colombian rural agro-enterprises: [PDF]

, 2002
This paper characterizes and measures the contribution of social capital to the performance of 50 agroenterprises in Colombia. Using qualitative analysis we document how social capital performs a variety of functions in firms, including providing access information via networks of contacts, reducing transactions costs in contracting via trust, and ...
Johnson, Nancy L., Suarez, Ruth, Lundy, Mark   +2 more
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Social enterprises as rural development actors

2019
The social enterprise sector is attracting policy and academic interest internationally for its promise to meet development challenges across social and economic domains. This article discusses findings from applied research in Tasmania, Australia, that aimed to understand whether social enterprises were present, what distinguished them as a sector ...
Eversole, Robyn, Duniam, Mary
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Understanding social enterprise, social entrepreneurship and the social economy in rural Cambodia

Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, 2018
PurposeThis paper critically assesses Western views on the social economy in contrast to everyday realities in a low-income country, and challenges ethnocentric epistemologies in the discourse of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship that is prevalent in international development.
Lyne, Isaac (R19383), Ngin, Chanrith, Santoyo-Rio, Emmanuel   +2 more
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Social enterprise and the rural landscape.

2017
AbstractThis chapter introduces the growth and importance of social enterprises to rural communities, the types of social enterprise often found within rural landscapes, the governance and funding complexities such organizations face, and the importance of networking and relationship building within the genre. The marketing and human resource functions
C. A. Wiscombe, C. K. Dobson, E. Heyworth-Thomas, L. Maynard, S. Ryder   +4 more
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Can social enterprise contribute to creating sustainable rural communities? Using the lens of structuration theory to analyse the emergence of rural social enterprise

Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, 2012
Recent public policies increasingly emphasize the role of communities in service co-production. Collaboration between the state and the public is frequently associated with social enterprise activities. However, the assumption that social enterprises can be successfully built and developed in remote and rural areas might be faulty. Current policy does
Steinerowski, A, Steinerowska-Streb, I
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Towards an explanation of Irish rural-based social enterprises

International Review of Sociology, 2016
In Ireland social enterprises are seen primarily as non-profit organisations driven by social objectives.
Mary O’Shaughnessy, Patricia O’Hara
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Financing Rural Social Enterprises in India

Rural social entrepreneurship employs innovative and pragmatic approaches to address societal challenges, particularly for marginalized and impoverished communities. Entities that participate in rural social entrepreneurship are referred to as rural social enterprises, which may operate as either non-profit or for-profit organizations, with a focus on ...
B. C. M. Patnaik, Ipseeta Satpathy, Vishal Jain   +2 more
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