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Dialogue in the Dark: Shedding Light on the Development of Social Enterprises in China
2015
International audience; The application of for-profit business practices to nonprofit organizations, social enterprises are a way for nonprofit organizations to find funding in a time of rising costs, falling donations, and increased competition from for-profit businesses in the social sector. Although well established in the mature economies of the West, these enterprises are a novelty in the emerging economies of Asia and in the transitional economies of the former communist world. The experiences of Dialogue in the Dark, a social enterprise concerned with the problems associated with blindness, highlight the unique challenges that social enterprises face in China and offer lessons for en…
Innovative IC framework in the non profit sector
2012
The importance of intellectual capital in the non-profit sector generates the need to measure its role in the value creation process. The purpose of the paper is to study the application of intellectual capital within the non-profit sector, by turning attention to resources such as: knowledge, experience, and skills. Organizations, which are able to increase the knowledge of their staff and transform this knowledge into skills to improve services, can easily meet users’ needs and, thereby, become competitive. This contribution proposes to study how people’s knowledge can contribute to increasing social value, which is the non–profit organization’s aim. Furthermore, the goal is to de…
Non-profit entities between generalistic vs. specialistic approaches on a systematics of levels of definitions and classifications
2012
This paper starts from the absence of a theory of Non-Profit Entities (NPE)in proper accounting or 'business economics' approaches. Accounting was traditionally developed by and for firms and is only roughly approaching the non-profit dominium. In doing so, we experience either an excessive generalism or excessive specialism. Hence, we seek a multi-level setting of the problem: general properties or 'characteristics' for entities in general, special properties or 'characterisations' for NPEs, and further properties of the main classes of NPEs. The chief outcome is the definition of based on the production of 'social' value and a further classification between NPOs and 'social' firms and, li…
Success Factors in Funding Acquisition for Research Projects through Competitive Calls: A study of R&D Public Centres
2017
Durante los últimos años, la capacidad de generación de recursos financieros derivados de la obtención de fondos competitivos ha sido una preocupación creciente para las organizaciones públicas de investigación y desarrollo (I+D), al garantizar su supervivencia y el futuro de los actuales sistemas de bienestar público implementados en la mayoría de los países europeos (Bazeley, 1998; Lee y Om, 1996; Muñoz, 2007; Santamaría, Brage-Gil, y Modrego, 2010). La literatura actual describe ampliamente las características y el impacto de los principales programas de financiación competitiva internacional (Galsworthy y McKee, 2013; Grimpe, 2012; Laudel, 2005, 2006), la magnitud de la eficacia de los …
Sociālā uzņēmējdarbība; potenciāli un izaicinājumi
2018
Jaunā nozare - sociālā uzņēmējdarbība – saņem aizvien vairāk uzmanības un popularitātes gadu laikā, un tomēr pastāv liela plaisa starp tās popularitāti un empīriskajiem pētījumiem, kuri rakstīti, lai izpētītu izaicinājumus, ar kuriem saskaras sociālie uzņēmēji. Lielākā daļa pētījumu ir veikti fokusējoties uz bezpeļņas organizācijām, turpretī organizācijas, kuras darbojas ar peļņu, ir saņēmušas daudzreiz mazāk uzmanības. Sociālā uzņēmējdarbība ir sarežģīts, daudzveidīgs fenomens, kurš ietver dažādus organizatoriskos veidus un aktivitātes, neskatoties uz to sociālās uzņēmējdarbības popularitāte tiek pārspēkota ar dažādajiem pieņēmumiem, ņemot vērā, ka dažādām sabiedrības grupām sociālā uzņēmē…
Alliances between For-Profit and Non-Profit Organizations as an Instrument to Implement the Economy for the Common Good
2020
The model of the Economy for the Common Good (ECG) has cooperation as one of its main principles. This alternative economic model proposes to prioritize cooperation over competition to favor the creation of social value. From this point of view, strategic alliances between organizations can be used as an instrument that supports implementation of the ECG model. In recent years, alliances between for-profit and non-profit entities have been strengthened as a method to facilitate actions focused on social responsibility and sustainability. Moreover, the ECG model has become an adequate management framework for corporate sustainability. This work aims to connect alliances between for-profit an…
Inside “Pandora’s Box” of Solidarity: Conflicts Between Paid Staff and Volunteers in the Non-profit Sector
2020
Non-profit organizations (NPOs) are quite complex in terms of organizational structure, diversity at the workplace, as well as motivational mechanisms and value rationality. Nevertheless, from the perspective of organizational psychology, the systematic analysis of this context is scarce in the literature, particularly regarding conflicts. This qualitative study analyzes types, prevalence, and consequences of conflicts in a large NPO considering as theoretical framework several consolidated organizational psychology theories: conflict theory, social comparison theory, and equity theory. Conflicts were analyzed taking into account volunteers' perspective, who have been the consistent protago…
Professionalization of the Finnish voluntary sports sector : case study of the Tennis Club of Jyväskylä 1993-2016
2018
Professionalization of sports is an on-going phenomenon. Voluntary sports clubs have been based on the values of amateurism. Recently, the trend of professionalization has had effects on the voluntary sports sector. The main aim of the thesis is to explore, describe, understand, and highlight the development, changes, and challenges of the Tennis Club of Jyväskylä (JTS) while moving towards professionalism from 1993 to 2016. At the end, the goal of the study is to enhance our understanding of the voluntary sports club´s operational environment. Qualitative research method, a case study, was used in this study. The data of the study was collected through semi-structured interviews with five …
Intellectual capital reporting in the non-profit sector. A case study analysis
2013
The article focuses on the analysis of external ICR practices in the non-profit sector, exploring why and how a NPO reports its IC.In detail, the paper focuses on the ICRs of an Italian non-profit organization (NPO), theANPAS Piemonte, a branch of ANPAS (Associazione Nazionale Pubbliche Assistenze), the largest volunteer federation of associations providing public interest services in Italy.In studying ANPAS Piemonte ICR practices, the authors briefly describe the changes which have taken place in the public and NP sector environments, as these provide the macro contextual factors within which ANPAS Piemonte formulates its ICR strategy. The authors selected ANPAS Piemonte as it is, to the b…
Il report del capitale intellettuale nel settore non profit: esperienze a confronto
2010
Il contributo si interroga sulla possibilità, da parte degli stakeholder di un’organizzazione, di capire il processo di creazione del valore dalla lettura del suo report del CI. La research question (RQ) al centro del paper è pertanto la seguente :RQ I modelli evoluti di report del CI riescono ad evidenziare il ruolo giocato dagli intangibili nel processo di creazione del valore aziendale?L’approccio metodologico seguito nel paper per rispondere alla RQ è quello di un confronto sistematico tra due report del CI di due differenti organizzazioni, uno appartenente ai modelli pionieristici di rendicontazione del CI, l’altro ai modelli evoluti, dal momento che, nella realtà, modelli pionieristic…