Social Enterprises' Social Capital as a source of Competitive Advantage Author: Mario Tani PhD Student University of Naples “Federico II” Department of Business Administration mario.tani@unina.it Abstract The numerous economical and financial crisis in the last few years have been matched by the acknowledgement of new specific needs often not fully covered by market players or public-funded ones. These events have sped up the acknowledgement process of Social Enterprises, those non-profit
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Characteristics and Environment Paper Characteristics and Environments of a Human Service Organization Paper Lillie Taylor BSHS/462 November 18, 2013 Sharla Hansen Characteristics and Environments of a Human Service Organization Paper Introduction In this paper it will discuss and address a human service organization. The organizations vision and mission will be addressed. The organization staff and how it is governed will also be
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[pic] Staples SUBMITTED BY Introduction • Staples Inc. founded in 1985 by Thomas G. Stemberg and Leo Kahn in Brighton, Massachusetts. • It is headquartered in Framingham and employs 89,000 employees worldwide. Staples sells office supplies at more than 2,000 stores. • In additional to typical office supplies, stores offer computer hardware and software, furniture, art and school supplies and printing and
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markets, expand into new geographic areas and participate in new technology driven value activities (Sullivan, 2014). For the purpose of this project we decided to analyze the recently concluded Joint Venture between Walmart Inc. and Bharti Enterprises. Bharti Enterprises is an Indian Business conglomerate, which owns various businesses spanning across telecommunications, retail, financial services and manufacturing. It operates in 20 countries across Asia and Africa. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., branded as Walmart
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thought - J. Gregory Dess and Beth Balle Anderson The paper argues that social entrepreneurship will be most effective and generate the greatest interest of academics when it combines elements of the two main existing schools of thought: the social enterprise and the social innovation school of thought. At the intersection of them, to which the authors refer to as “enterprising social innovations”, social entrepreneurship is defined as an “innovative, social and economic value creating activity” that
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FREEZING OUT BEN & JERRY: CORPORATE LAW AND THE SALE OF A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE ICON Antony Page* & Robert A. Katz**† INTRODUCTION The perfect duo. Ice cream and chunks. Business and social change. Ben and Jerry.1 Nobody wants to end up like Ben and Jerry’s, where soon after a multinational acquired it, key facets of its social mission were cut from the company.2 Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc. was once the darling of proponents of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship.3 It was a for-profit corporation
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Enterprise Architecture Group Project Report Submitted on 16-02-2016 Enterprise Architecture for PayTM T - 007 y12uc035 Ankit Kumar y12uc097 Gupta Kapil y12uc134 Kumar Govind Jha y12uc213 Ronak Modi Introduction Paytm is the consumer brand of India’s leading mobile internet company One97 CommunicationsIt is India’s largest mobile commerce platform launched in 2010 and . headquartered in Noida, India, . Paytm started by offering
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MGMT E 2720 Mergers and Acquisitions Supplemental Case Questions 1. The New York Times a. Why is there so much family control in the newspaper business? b. How did the Sulzberger family manage to retain control on the NYT after it went public? c. How does the NYT dual class structure differ from the one used by Dow Jones, prior to its takeover by Rupert Murdoch? d. What explains the behavior of the NYT institutional shareholders – not just Morgan Stanley but also
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REPORT ON BHARTI AIRTEL LIMITED Submitted to Prof. A. Nag Submitted By Vivek Kumar Gupta (05_F1_129) Mohd. Imran (05_F1_113) Institute of marketing and management Uploaded for www.projectsparadise.com CONTENTS Acknowledgment 3 Executive Summary 4 Introduction 5 Objectives 8 Methodology Primary Data Sources Secondary Data Sources 8 Analysis SWOT Analysis BCG Matrix Porter Model Ansoff matrix Environmental Analysis Competitors Analysis
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SEPTEMBER 27, 2000 Writing Enterprise Applications with Java™ 2 SDK, Enterprise Edition by Monica Pawlan SEPTEMBER 27, 2000 copyright ® 1995-99 Sun Microsystems, Inc. As used in this document, the terms “Java™ virtual machine” or “Java VM” mean a virtual machine for the Java platform. SEPTEMBER 27, 2000 III Preface This tutorial introduces you to the APIs, tools, and services provided in the Java™ 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Software Developer Kit (SDK). You can get the
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