With much of the literature declaring little role for fnancial systems in boosting a nation's share of innovative entrepreneurs, this study argues that fnancial systems play an important role when other parts of the national business systems -skills and government- are weak. This argument is...

In the run-up to the Millennium Development Goals of 2015, the United Nations GlobalCompact and others are targeting major corporations to play an active leadership role inpromoting sustainable development. Increasingly, corporations are encouraged to do sowhile pursuing profit-making business...

Purpose Context matters in social entrepreneurship, and it matters a lot. Social entrepreneurs are deeply entrenched in the context where they operate: they respond to its challenges, are shaped by it, and attempt to shape it in turn. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how social...

We explore why and how corporations seek to build community resilience as a strategic response to grand challenges. Based on a comparative case study analysis of four corporations strategically building community resilience in five place-based communities in South Africa, as well as three...