This thesis aims to contribute to the lacking scientific literature on new businessmodels, social value orientation and social entrepreneurship via a combination of aquantitative and qualitative research. The research examines how individuals feelabout the desirability and viability of certain alternative business models andwhether an individual’s social value orientation influences his or her beliefs on thesetopics. …

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This thesis contributes to the lacking scientific literature on the motivational values of social entrepreneurs, as well as to the newly arising literature on New Business Models. Through interviews with multiple support organizations, social entrepreneurs’ main motivational values are derived and mapped, then visualized within the Schwartz structure of human motivational value types. Furthermore, the …

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We currently find ourselves in a period of transition, because our society is unsustainable. This gives rise to the idea that firms should not only focus on profit, but also on the creation of other values. One of the reasons why firms are not yet fully committed to the creation of other values is because …

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Though the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is vastly discussed in management literature little is known about its relation with community development at the local level. This paper makes an attempt to shed light on the current landscape of CSR activities within the automotive industry in India. Based on a multiple case study analysis …

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This research investigates the differences in local economic development in developing and developed countries. It used the model by Pennink (2014) which is based on developing countries and applies it to a developed country. The findings are that MNEs and their activities do not seem to play a role in LED; universities have a supporting …

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This study aims to create a model which measures and shows what types of value, economic, social, and/or ecological are created by social businesses. Next to this, the study investigates which actors and stakeholders are involved in this process.

This study explores the dynamics of social capital in collective-action settings in the form of various processes in a social (-ecological) movement and how these dynamics build proactive resilience to sustain the Earth.  This study provides a thorough theoretical background on the concepts under study: social capital, collective action, (proactive) resilience and sustainable development; visualized …

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The study provides an overview of how systemic interplay of local government, local actors, and social media intermediates NBMe’s contribution in local sustainability transition. The process involves cross-country knowledge transfer, “telling” way through local government, local leader, social media as agent and “showing” way of communication, as well as scenarios where trusted agent and its …

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