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Use your Helen Plum Library card to access Gale Business: Entrepreneurship: a resource for all areas of business operation including financing, management, marketing, human resources, franchising, accounting, taxes, and more.
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Who drives transformation in society? How do they do it?
In this compelling book, strategy guru Roger L. Martin and Skoll Foundation President and CEO Sally R. Osberg describe how social entrepreneurs target systems that exist in a stable but unjust equilibrium and transform them into entirely new, superior, and sustainable equilibria. All of these leaders -- call them disrupters, visionaries, or changemakers -- develop, build, and scale their solutions...
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Computers, portable digital devices, social networking, crowdfunding, and other digital technologies make it possible for social entrepreneurs to solve problems far from their own neighborhoods. This unique resource provides detailed information about using new technology and online information to help readers turn dreams of a better world into reality. Solving social problems is easier with the information and resources to plan ahead, organize a...
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In "Harmony in Impact: Navigating Tensions in Social Entrepreneurship," Usha Chaudhary utilizes the grounded theory research method - an inductive approach to reviewing, coding, synthesizing, and analyzing data - to develop novel theories based on emergent patterns. The rich data was derived from interviews with 22 social entrepreneurs to seek insights from their experiences and struggles throughout their entrepreneurial journey as well as the author's...
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The landscape of church planting is rapidly changing right before our eyes. In response to the fluidity of the culture that surrounds us, church planters are needing to think differently about how they should approach their calling. Rather than asking, "How do I plant a sustainable church?" many are beginning to ask instead, "How do I become sustainable as a church planter?"Enter social entrepreneurship. Intrepid is about combining the twin forces...
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The Business of Good narrates the story behind social entrepreneurship as told by the individuals compelled to create a change in the world--not just another business. Serial and social entrepreneur Jason Haber intertwines case studies, anecdotes, and initiatives that have become part of the larger narrative of entrepreneurship. From Main Street to Wall Street, today's social entrepreneurs are rebooting capitalism, challenging the charitable industrial...
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As the United Nation adopted Entrepreneurship for development on December 8, 2012, Churches and states around the world cannot seem to agree how to get involved in socioeconomic development and entrepreneurship, a subject certainly bears examination. Using a qualitative approach, religious scholar, psychologist and researcher, Dr. Richard Corker-Caulker outlines the theories that have justified various social programs. He analyzes, interprets, and...
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