Everyone describes social entrepreneurship differently. While many have been able to describe the traits and features of a social entrepreneur there doesn’t seem at all to be a consensus about the definition of what constitutes the field of social entrepreneurship. Susan Davis and David Bornstein in their book‚ Social Entrepreneurship: What Everyone Needs to Know define social entrepreneurship as “a process by which citizens build or transform institutions to advance solutions to social problems such
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Social Environment Social environment refers to the nature of social organisation and development of social institutions like Caste‚ Religion‚ customs ‚ and socio-economic factors like Class structure‚ Social mobility ‚ women employment etc. Impact of Social environment on Business: Caste – Competitive trading ‚ Weaving ‚ Metal ‚ finance communities Religion – Prohibition on Pork & Meat ‚ Islamic finance Customs – Women employment‚ restriction on overseas employment Class Structure - Upper
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misused the donated funds and the financial mismanagement at NKF‚ greatly affecting NKF’s reputation. After the entire incident‚ the public became very concerned over the transparency of charitable organisations. The broad concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) can be summarised into three main aspects. First‚ employee’s wellbeing. This is
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Introduction: Social accountability is defined as an approach toward building accountability that relies on civic engagement‚ i.e.‚ in which it is ordinary citizens and/or civil society organizations that participate directly or indirectly in exacting accountability. In a public sector context‚ social accountability refers to a broad range of actions and mechanisms that citizens‚ communities‚ independent media and civil society organizations can use to hold public officials and public servants
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Good Corporate Citizenship & Political Competence-Interrelated/Interconnected Introduction Good corporate citizenship and political competence are interconnected. A definition of both terms will be provided. How both terms are interconnected will be discussed. Also‚ a mission statement from a healthcare organization (HCO)‚ more specifically a hospital will be evaluated and interpreted to view the connection between good corporate citizenship and political competence. Interconnection In order
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Assignment 2: Social Performance By: Anitra Wright Instructor: Yvette Snowden Bus 475 December 2‚ 2012 Social Performance Organizations have a responsibility to monitor and enforce behavior that represents a sense of social responsibility. Therefore‚ the social performance of a company must be organized in a manner that takes into consideration the laws for which they should uphold. One way to ensure that organizations are aware of those laws and refraining from illegal behavior is to
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Social Audit A social audit is a business statement presented annually to understand‚ measure‚ report and improve the organization ’s social and ethical performance. Usually‚ social audit is addressed to employees‚ investors‚ market analysts‚ shareholders and lastly‚ the community. This is considered to be the main ground for practicing corporate social responsibility. With social audit‚ it strengthens the relationship between company‚ society and environment and at the same time showing the
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Corporate Governance and CSR: A Tool for Financial Manager Presented by: Nelson Monis INTRODUCTION “Good governance is integral to the very existence of a company. It inspires and strengthens investor’s confidence by ensuring company’s commitment to higher growth and profits. Corporate governance is nothing more than how a corporation is administered or controlled. Corporate governance takes into consideration company stakeholders as governmental participants‚ the principle participants being shareholders
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Assignment – Social Accounting What is Social Accounting? “Social accounting and auditing is about understanding the impact of organisations on our society and the overarching context is sustainability: both sustainability of the organisation itself (the interrelation of the social‚ the environmental‚ the cultural and the financial) and sustainability of behaviour which contributes to a future for the people and the planet. Social accounting is distinct from evaluation in that it is an internally
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entities with the same moral responsibilities as a person. They point out three factors that compose moral responsibility for individuals and corporations. The first of these factors is the idea of accountability. Goodpaster and Matthews explain that just as individuals are responsible for their ethical and moral actions‚ corporations are also responsible for their ethical and moral actions. This belief is contrary to the traditional view that the only responsibility of a corporation is to make
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