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[pt] Esta pesquisa avalia se existem diferenças significativas nos modelos de negócio e no acesso a recursos no ecossistema, que permitam distinguir e classificar as Iniciativas de Empreendedorismo Social (IES). Também busca compreender como essas diferenças influenciam a criação de valor social. Na ausência de definições teóricas capazes de representar esses aspectos, partiu-se em busca dos critérios de seleção de investimentos sociais e de premiações, considerando inicialmente as quatro maiores organizações globais de apoio ao empreendedorismo social e depois os investidores sociais portugueses. Dados online e entrevistas passaram por análise de conteúdo e de padrões para formar modelos de ressonância e mobilização participante. Esses modelos destacam objetivos, motivações e a forma como as soluções são propostas. A pesquisa exploratória ajudou a superar as limitações teóricas e a incorporar a diversidade de pontos de vista necessária à compreensão do empreendedorismo social. Também permitiu propor uma nova forma de abordar valor social. O enfoque no valor social é uma estratégia de consolidação para o campo de pesquisa, devido a esse construto ser comum à maioria das definições de empreendedorismo social. Esta tese propõe que a multidimensionalidade da criação de valor assuma uma perspectiva de avaliação objetiva e outra subjetiva, considerando-as complementares A perspectiva objetiva reflete quantificação de resultados, comum em pesquisas que buscam identificar o valor social ou as IES. A perspectiva subjetiva relaciona-se com a complexidade de um conceito essencialmente contestado, incorpora o ponto de vista do beneficiário e a relação com o contexto, buscando isolar os efeitos da IES de outros atuantes sobre o problema social. Foi adotada uma estratégia multimétodos para identificação de arquétipos e classificação das IES, propondo uma taxonomia. A metodologia baseia-se na identificação de padrões através de análise qualitativa e quantitativa. As IES estudadas representam 43,63 por cento da população e um investimento público estimado de 29.348.180,00 euros. Atendem juntas 268.533 beneficiários, criam 1078 postos de trabalho remunerados e contam com 5227 voluntários. A partir dos fatores proposta de valor inovadora, capacidade de inovação, disponibilidade de recursos e acesso a investimento, foram identificados os arquétipos Persistente, Ousado e Inovador. A taxonomia é compatível com a literatura e coerente com relatórios oficiais portugueses. As IES inovadoras criam mais valor social de maneira mais eficiente. As IES persistentes são a maioria das novas IES e têm grande potencial de criar valor subjetivo. Porém, são limitadas por sua estrutura organizacional. As IES ousadas criam maior valor objetivo, com menor eficiência na utilização de recursos. A taxonomia permitiu compreender dinâmicas do ecossistema português, esclareceu questões relativas à estrutura das IES e sobre sua influência na criação de valor social. Os resultados contestam a divisão binária onde IES tradicionais têm maior dificuldade de combinar objetivos sociais e econômicos do que as novas. Porém, corrobora e destaca o papel da inovação na combinação complementar desses objetivos. O ecossistema português favorece IES inovadoras e tende a produzir inovações incrementais. Os resultados apontam progresso em relação a fragilidades sinalizadas em estudos anteriores e sugerem a dinamização do ecossistema com um aumento de 31,3 por cento no surgimento de IES. / [en] This research evaluates if there are significant differences in the business models and in the access to resources in the ecosystem, which allow to distinguish and classify the Social Entrepreneurship Initiatives (SEI). It also seeks to understand how these differences influence the social value creation. In the absence of theoretical definitions capable of representing these aspects, the social investment and awards criteria were researched, initially considering the four largest global social entrepreneurship support organizations and then Portuguese social investors. Online data and interviews went through content and patterm-macthing analysis to form models of resonance and participatory mobilization. These models highlight goals, motivations and the way solutions are proposed. Exploratory research helped to overcome theoretical limitations and to incorporate the diversity of points of view needed to understand social entrepreneurship. It also made it possible to propose a new way to address social value. The focus on social value is a consolidation strategy for the research field, due to the fact that this construct is common to most social entrepreneurship definitions. This thesis proposes that the value creation multi-dimensionality assumes an objective and subjective evaluation perspective, considering them as complementary. The objective perspective reflects results quantification, common in research that seeks to identify social value or SEI. The subjective perspective is related to the complexity of an essentially contested concept, it incorporates the beneficiary s point of view and the relationship with the context, seeking to isolate the SEI’s effects from others that strikes the social problem. A multi-method strategy was adopted to identify archetypes and classify SEI, proposing a taxonomy. The methodology is based on patterns identification through qualitative and quantitative analysis. The SEI studied represent 43.63 per cent of the population and an estimated public investment of 29,348,180.00 euros. Together they serve 268,533 beneficiaries, create 1078 paid jobs and have 5227 volunteers. Based on the factors such as innovative value proposal, capacity for innovation, availability of resources and access to investment, the archetypes Persistent, Bold and Innovative were identified. Taxonomy is supported by the literature and consistent with official Portuguese reports. Innovative SEI create more social value more efficiently. Persistent SEI are the majority of new SEI and have great potential to create subjective value. However, they are limited by their organizational structure. Bold SEI create greater objective value, with less efficiency in the resources use. Taxonomy made it possible to understand the dynamics of the Portuguese ecosystem, clarified issues related to the SEI’s structure and their influence on the social value creation. The results contest the binary division where traditional SEI have greater difficulty in combining social and economic goals than new SEI. However, it corroborates and highlights the innovation role in the complementary combination of these goals. The Portuguese ecosystem favors innovative SEI and tends to produce incremental innovations. The results point to progress in relation to weaknesses signaled in previous studies and suggest the dynamization of the ecosystem with an increase of 31.3 per cent in the emergence of new SEI.

[pt] Diante do cenário de agravamento de crises devido à pandemia da COVID- 19, essa pesquisa buscou compreender como, em um contexto brasileiro de pandemia, a educação empreendedora busca construir um conhecimento reflexivo e propositivo acerca do papel do empreendedor na sociedade, e de que forma uma educação crítica pode contribuir com esse processo. O estudo qualitativo analisou os dados recolhidos em um processo de observação participante do pesquisador em uma disciplina de empreendedorismo de uma universidade de grande reconhecimento na temática, os documentos relacionados à referida disciplina e depoimentos de docentes e estudantes, concedidos por meio de entrevistas. A partir de uma abordagem temática, a análise foi estruturada sob a perspectiva de dois grandes temas e seus subtemas: (1) Ser empreendedor; (1.1) Perfil Empreendedor, (1.2) Educação Empreendedora, (1.3) Eu Produto, (1.4) Indivíduo padronizado; e (2) Ser um empreendedor agente de mudança; (2.1) Visão Coletiva versus Visão Individualista, (2.2) Mudança positiva versus mudança negativa, (2.3) Empreendedorismo social. Dessa forma, a pesquisa evidencia uma contribuição pouco efetiva para a formação de indivíduos críticos e com potencial de transformação social. Portanto, o estudo sugere, a partir de um alicerce consistente da pedagogia crítica de Paulo Freire, entre o empreendedorismo social, de impacto e o ensino do empreendedorismo, uma reavaliação deste último enquanto instrumento político, democrático e de liberdade, que trabalhe a serviço da visão coletiva, desenvolvendo sujeitos capazes de interagir com as demandas reais e atuar de forma propositiva, promovendo mudanças positivas frente aos problemas socioambientais que fazem parte das realidades brasileiras. / [en] In light of the aggravation of crises due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this research sought to understand how, in a brazilian pandemic context, entrepreneurial education tries to build a reflexive and propositive knowledge about the role of the entrepreneur in the society and how a critical education can contribute with this process. The qualitative study analyzed the data in a participant observation process of the researcher in an entrepreneurship class of a well recognized university in this topic. The documents related to that discipline and testimonies were obtained through interviews with professors and students. From a thematic approach, the analysis was structured under the perspective of two major themes and their sub-themes: (1) Being an entrepreneur; (1.1) Entrepreneurial Profile, (1.2) Entrepreneurial Education, (1.3) Me as a Product, (1.4) Standardized individual; and (2) Be a change agent entrepreneur; (2.1) Collective Vision versus Individualistic Vision, (2.2) Positive change versus negative change, (2.3) Social entrepreneurship. Thus, the research shows an ineffective contribution to the formation of critical individuals with potential for social transformation. Therefore, the study suggests, based on a consistent foundation of Paulo Freire s critical pedagogy, between social, impact entrepreneurship and the teaching of entrepreneurship, a reassessment of the latter as a political, democratic and freedom instrument that works at the service of collective vision, developing subjects capable of interacting with real demands and acting purposefully, promoting positive changes in the face of socioenvironmental problems that are part of Brazilian realities.

[pt] Práticas empreendedoras motivadas por propósitos sociais e ambientais têm ganhado reconhecimento mundial. No entanto, ainda existem muitas lacunas no conhecimento científico a respeito desse fenômeno. Esta tese investiga atributos e processos de liderança que possibilitam os empreendimentos sociais a serem efetivos. Inclui dois ensaios autônomos que investigam empiricamente a liderança em empreendimentos sociais e o processo pelo qual ela permite inovações sociais. A questão de pesquisa do primeiro estudo está relacionada a quais características, comportamentos e habilidades de liderança são essenciais para que os líderes de empreendimentos sociais alcancem seus objetivos de negócios. Assim, uma pesquisa qualitativa com base no protocolo metodológico da Grounded Theory foi realizada. Foram entrevistados 36 atores - líderes de organizações sociais e seus stakeholders. Os resultados revelaram oito atributos essenciais dos líderes de empreendimentos sociais: impulso para causar impacto, integridade moral inabalável, comunicação centrada no outro, postura relacional construtiva, desenvolvimento da equipe, resolução co-criativa de problemas, desenvolvimento de redes estratégicas e compromisso com alta qualidade da entrega. Essas descobertas sugerem que uma perspectiva clássica de liderança sozinha não pode abranger totalmente todos os atributos essenciais da liderança em empreendimentos sociais. A questão de pesquisa do segundo estudo está relacionada a quais processos psicossociais habilitados por líderes de empreendimentos sociais promovem a criatividade e a inovação de suas equipes. Assim, foi realizada uma pesquisa quantitativa, no nível de análise das equipes, para verificar os mecanismos pelos quais a liderança servidora e empoderadora possibilitam a criatividade e a inovação das equipes em empreendimentos sociais. A pesquisa foi realizada com uma amostra de 41 líderes e 73 colaboradores de organizações socioambientais. As hipóteses foram avaliadas estatisticamente por meio da modelagem de equações estruturais (Partial Least Squares - PLS), utilizando o software SmartPLS 3.0. Todas as hipóteses foram confirmadas, exceto uma. A liderança servidora influencia positivamente a identidade e o comprometimento da equipe. No entanto, a conexão desses processos com a criatividade não foi estabelecida. A liderança empoderadora influencia positivamente a ampliação de fronteiras da equipe e as suas capacidades dinâmicas, que foram associadas à criatividade da equipe e à inovação em empreendimentos sociais. Essas descobertas são uma contribuição única para a literatura e possibilitam um entendimento mais profundo de quais processos de liderança são necessários para gerar inovações sociais para resolver problemas socioambientais. Ambos os estudos avançam o conhecimento sobre liderança e seu papel nos empreendimentos sociais. / [en] Entrepreneurial practices motivated by social and environmental purposes have gained worldwide recognition. Nevertheless, there are still many gaps in scientific knowledge regarding this phenomenon. This thesis investigates leadership attributes and processes that enable social endeavors. It encompasses two stand-alone essays that empirically investigate social venture leadership and the process through which it allows social innovations. Essay one research question concerned which characteristics, behaviors, and leadership skills are essential for social venture leaders to reach their business objectives. A qualitative research was conducted based on the Grounded Theory methodological protocol. Thirty-six actors were interviewed – social organizations leaders and their stakeholders. The results unveil eight essential attributes of social venture leaders: drive to cause impact, unswerving moral integrity, other-centered communication, constructive relational stance, team empowerment, co-creative problem solving, strategic network development, and high-quality delivery commitment. These findings suggest that one classic leadership perspective alone cannot fully encompass all the essential attributes of social venture leadership. Essay two research question concerned which psychosocial processes enabled by social venture leaders promote team creativity and innovation. A quantitative research was conducted, focusing on the team level of analyses, to verify the mechanisms through which servant and empowering leadership enable team creativity and team innovation in social ventures. A survey was conducted with a sample of 41 leaders and 73 team members from socioenvironmental organizations. The hypotheses were statistically evaluated through Partial Least Squares (PLS) structural equations modeling, using the SmartPLS 3.0 software. All hypotheses were confirmed but one. Servant leadership positively influences team identity and team commitment. However, the connection between these processes with creativity was not established. Empowering leadership positively influences team boundary spanning and team dynamic capabilities, which were associated with team creativity and innovation in social ventures. These findings are a unique contribution to the literature and contribute to a deeper understanding of which leadership processes are necessary to bring about social innovations to solve socio-environmental problems. Both studies advance knowledge on leadership and its role in social ventures.

Article overviews public-private partnership mechanisms for social entrepreneurship development. Comparative analysis of federal laws and regulatory acts in the field of public-private partnership mechanisms and social entrepreneurship has been conducted. Mechanism of private initiatives for development and implementation of public-private partnership projects is described. Measures for municipal-private partnership development are proposed. The importance of this study is confirmed by the normative legal act of strategic planning: the Order of the Government of the Russian Federation dated June 8, 2016 No. 1144-R “Support for access of non-governmental organizations to the provision of services in the social sphere” (“road map”). The purpose of “the road map” is to increase the participation of non-governmental organizations in the social sphere to improve the availability and quality of services and optimize budget expenditures. At the regional level, activities to promote the development of the non-state (non-municipal) sector in the social sphere are carried out within the framework of the following mechanisms: 1. Implementation of “pilot” projects. 2. One of the principles of the standard coincides with the purpose of “the road map” to increase the satisfaction of consumers and other participants of economic activity with the quality of goods, works and services sold in regional markets. 3. Development, approval and implementation of regional and municipal action plans (“the road maps”). These mechanisms pursue significant goals-improving the availability and quality of social services provided to consumers, the development of competition in the markets of these services. The mechanism of development and consideration of “a private initiative” in the law on public-private partnership is not regulated by a separate article. Thus, the foundations of the development of social entrepreneurship on the basis of public-private partnership mechanisms are based on theoretical sources. Modern legislation has formulated a legal framework in which the mechanisms of public-private partnership and municipal-private partnership for the development of social entrepreneurship can be implemented. / Магистерская диссертация содержит 117 страниц, 18 таблиц, 58 литературных источников, включая электронные ресурсы. Объект исследования – процесс реализации механизмов развития социального предпринимательства. Цель исследования – изучить теоретические и организационно-правовые основы реализации государственно-частного партнерства в социальной сфере и механизмы развития социального предпринимательства. Основными методами проведения исследования стали анализ теоретической литературы, анализ нормативно-правовых документов, анализ статистических данных. В процессе исследования был изучен и уточнен понятийный аппарат государственно-частного партнерства и социального предпринимательства в теоретических и правовых источниках, обоснована необходимость использования государственно-частного партнерства как механизма развития социального предпринимательства, в том числе на уровне муниципального управления. Результатом работы стала разработка рекомендаций для муниципальных образований Свердловской области в целях развития социального предпринимательства на основе механизмов государственно-частного партнерства. Теоретической базой данной работы стали 10 авторефератов диссертаций, 1 монографическая работа, 19 статей в научных журналах, Интернет – публикации.

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The United Arab Emirates are challenged to include the national workforce into their increasingly diversified and knowledge-based economic vision. The federal Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development incubates Sougha, a non-profit company acting as market intermediary for Emirati artisans. This study aims at providing an insight into Sougha‘s potential to become a social enterprise. A pragmatic and exploratory approach is followed. An iterative process underpins the concept of social enterprise from established literature, re-visits it through a social constructivist lens as an emerging topic in the GCC region, and benchmarks Sougha against two selected social enterprise frameworks, based on data analysis from documents and interviews. Sougha demonstrates social value creation while its commercial value creation is restricted to social mission activities. Financial motives are insufficiently reflected in Sougha‘s strategic documentation; leaving doubt to whether Sougha is genuinely seeking financial sustainability, which endangers its eligibility as a social enterprise. / Development Studies / M.A. (Development Studies)

After the initial excitement about the Internet as a space outside of governmental control has evaporated and courts in several states have applied national laws to ‘Cyberspace’, there is now a consensus among scholars that regulators have in principle the authority and capacity to regulate the Internet. Nevertheless, the application of the established tools of regulation - legislation and adjudication - to the current challenges to copyright regulation posed by the Internet has proven to be ineffective and produced undesirable side effects. Although market self-regulation has been suggested as a more efficacious approach to regulating the Internet and has proven effective in content regulation and Internet governance, the market has so far been unsuccessful in providing an effective and efficient remedy to the challenges to copyright regulation. The purpose of this thesis is to examine a novel approach to regulation and analyse its benefits and limitations. The novel approach defies the conceptualisation as co- and self-regulation, but introduces the solution from outside the regulated environment through entrepreneurship and innovation, and relies on the forces of the market to become effective. In this thesis, I analyse the regulatory systems implemented by two private organisations, Noank Media and Creative Commons, in China’s reportedly ineffective copyright law environment and find that their market-based and innovative approach to regulation can be understood as a form of social entrepreneurship. Social enterprises have been claimed to deliver social goods more effectively and efficiently than governmental intervention, because they are said to rely on local knowledge, to be driven by the demand of the stakeholders, and to be focused on social value creation. Based on quantitative and qualitative fieldwork with Noank Media’s and Creative Common’s stakeholders in China I analyse to what extent these two enterprises managed to successfully leverage the assets of social entrepreneurship. I conclude that while the novel approach has demonstrated the potential to produce more effective and more efficient regulation, it does not automatically result in Better Regulation. Further efforts are required to ensure participation, transparency, and public accountability, and to avoid regulatory fragmentation.

Taking into account the theoretical approaches of Joseph Alois Schumpeter and Clayton Christensen to innovation, this case study is mapping the current Czech environment of written online media. Traditional media houses are dealing with the crisis of finances and information as generally described by Christensen, which means they are in real need for innovation yet they are not always successful. Other new incentives also appear on the market. Similarly to the situation abroad, the NGO sector is able to provide quality content on issues of its interest. Social innovation is rather a buzzword in the country, yet the author identifies a couple of efforts in the online written media. The author also suggests there might even be a niche for a social enterprise in the area to cooperate with the NGO sector and blogosphere. Keywords creative destruction, disruptive innovation, social entrepreneurship, social innovation, Czech Republic, print media online, watchdog journalism Abstrakt Tato případová studie nahlíží teoretickou optikou kreativní destrukce dle Josepha Aloise Schumpetera a rozkladných technologií dle Claytona Christensena prostředí digitálních podob současného českého tisku. Zatímco velké mediální domy se snaží ustát krizi financí a informací, potřebují také v duchu Christensenova přístupu...