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Bad Translation or Double Standards? Productivity and Accountability Across the Private, Public and Voluntary Sectors

Stein, Janice - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

development; and the problems in maintaining of full accountability. …

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Missing the target: Lessons from enabling innovation in South Asia

Rasheed, Sulaiman V.; Hall, Andy; Reddy, T.S. Vamsidhar - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011

) Strengthening the innovation enabling environment of policies and institutions is critical if research use is to lead to long …

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The practice of social entrepreneurship: Theory and the Swedish experience

Stryjan, Yohanan - Hochschule <Wismar> / Fachbereich Wirtschaft - 2005

The notion of social entrepreneurship has gained increasing recognition in thelast years, both as an increasingly visible mode of economic action, and as animportant policy tool. The paper outlines a typology that departs from aSchumpeterian view of entrepreneurship, that centers on the creation...

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Country concepts and the rational actor trap: Limitations to strategic management of international NGOs

Kohnert, Dirk - 2005

Growing criticism of inefficient development aid demanded new planning instruments of donors, including international … introduced by major INGOs too - have increased the efficiency of development cooperation is open to question. Firstly, there have … medium-term country planning. Secondly, the underlying vision of rationality as a remedy for the major ills of development …

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The Italian Art Market and the importance of communication strategies: from fairs to auction houses’ best practices

Besana, Angela - 2009

The Italian cultural industry is now marching on an innovative supply chain, whose main pattern consists in a new utility perception and consumption behaviours on the demand side and a strong vocation to invest in communication and public relations on the supply side. The content of this paper...

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Do cooperative enterprises create social trust?

Sabatini, Fabio; Modena, Francesca; Tortia, Ermanno - 2012

This paper contributes to the literature by carrying out the first empirical investigation into the role of different types of enterprises in the creation of social trust. Drawing on a unique dataset collected through the administration of a questionnaire to a representative sample of the...

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Disentangling the relationship between nonprofit and social capital: the role of social cooperatives and social welfare associations in the development of networks of strong and we...

Giacomo, Degli Antoni; Fabio, Sabatini - 2013

significantly greater role in the development of volunteers’ networks of cooperative relationships, favouring the creation of weak …

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Wage Effects of Recruitment Methods : The Case of the Italian Social Service Sector

Mosca, Michele; Pastore, Francesco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

volunteers belonging to public, private forprofit and private nonprofit institutions delivering social services in Italy. The … cooperatives and religious institutions, where formal hiring methods are not common. Interestingly, the differences in hiring and …

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The Polish model of a social economy with the financial aspects and profits at background: From the general theory to practice

Chojnacka, Katarzyna J. - In: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly 15 (2019) 3, pp. 29-46

This article contains main trends, assumptions and thesis about the social economy in Poland, which the author agree with. The main goal of it, is to bring together fundamental facts depicting the situation of the social economy in Poland (in theory and in practice) with the conditions that must...

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Thanks for nothing? Not-for-profits and motivated agents

Ghatak, Maitreesh; Müller, Hannes - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

We re-examine the labor donation theory of not-for-profits and show that these organizations may exist notnecessarily because motivated workers prefer to work in them, or that they dominate for-profits in terms ofwelfare, but because the excess supply of motivated workers makes the non-profit...

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