Social Entrepreneurship

The process of fusing social capital with the principles of entrepreneurship into community development can be the premier solution to the growing gap in the capacity of national, state and local agencies in addressing increased societal needs with diminishing funds. Investments made with a community approach led by institutions who embrace this approach can become a more cost effective solution to address societal needs while providing economic opportunities in a service-oriented environment. Significant areas of development include the increased need for alternative health care solutions for the increasing elderly population. As a result, a business plan called “Retire Eaze” was developed to address the transitioning needs of the aging population. Used as a preliminary model that focuses on elicitation of business development, the business plan advocates the creation of local health care and other required services as business solutions for under-serviced areas in the community. The concept of microeconomic intentional community business development (μICBD or micro ICBD) that addresses societal needs has the potential to produce recognizable and fiscally sustainable businesses that can optimize existing resources and generate bridges between various resource repositories at the local, state, national and international levels. The corporate actions of such activity can inspire community growth, provide required services, and develop internal institutional mechanisms that address human development needs where they are most needed.

""ABSTRACT: This study provides an empirically based analysis of corrupt governmental networks. We conducted 45 interviews in Hungary with different organizational actors who were actually participating in corrupt transactions or at least had first-hand
experiences of corruption. Given the secret nature of the topic, this article provides a unique insight into the phenomenon. Our findings show that corrupt elite cliques consciously design and coordinate multilevel structures of corrupt networks within and among organizations that involve a large amount of people. We identified the major network elements and their functions in corrupt transactions. The article also provides a typology of corrupt networks. The networks have different structural characteristics based on location of the ‘‘cash cows,’’ points from where the system is fed, and the actors’ positions of power. Our findings are compared with the already existing literature on dark networks, terrorist, and organized crime formations.""

This article reconsiders, through the case study of High Tory MP Sir Humphrey Mackworth (1657-1727), an influential thesis that core values of the landed class were incompatible with ‘projects’—new speculative commercial and industrial ventures floated in the emerging stock market. Rather than presupposing inherent tension between Whig and Tory, or Court and Country, the article explores how the High Tory, critical of Whig finance, conceptualized and lent legitimacy to his mining scheme. The first section reviews the historiography and the second introduces the case study. The article then shows that Mackworth viewed and promoted his business as a pursuit of piety, profit, and public service. This godly framework, it will be shown, was no rhetorical ornament: it even influenced how Mackworth understood the frauds he committed, which made him a notorious swindler but also an ‘innovative entrepreneur’ contributing to local economic development.

The usign of appropiate technology prepare a entrepreneur to introduce bussines into TIC´S, it important that companys understand the value of the new world developments in technology for capture and construct the chain of value into B-C relationships.

Kenya is home to the continent’s first technology business incubator, launched in 2010. Many have praised it and the community that has grown around it for its potential to build economic growth for the country and the region through fostering home grown technological creation. But the ecology around these incubators is transnational, in a constant state of evolution and adaptation, and filled with numerous different players with different political and economic motivations. This paper presents a preliminary analysis of these actors and their motivations in an effort to locate the balance of power in the space. Through the use of ethnography and critical discourse analysis, I make the case that a regular reexamination of these dynamics of production is essential if we are to understand who influences the kinds of technologies that are created and eventually used by people in Kenya and around the continent.

For over fifty years, successive waves of critique have underscored that the apolitical character of much of Political Science research betrays the founding mission of the discipline to have science serve democracy. The Caucus for a New Political Science was originally based on such a critique, and the Perestroika movement in the discipline included a call for more problem-driven as opposed to theory- or method-driven work that would better connect Political Science research to ongoing political struggles. In recent years, movements for a public Sociology and public Anthropology as well as dissonant movements in Economics and related fields have added to the insistence that social science research was too often disconnected from the real world. Phronetic Social Science has emerged out of the ferment for change in the social sciences, starting with the much-debated book by Bent Flyvbjerg, Making Social Science Matter (Cambridge 2001). Flyvbjerg critiqued the social sciences for mimicking the natural sciences while proposing an alternative approach that focuses research on helping people address the problems they are facing in the context they are facing them. Today, Phronetic Social Science goes beyond the call for an alternative approach to social inquiry and its growing adherents are providing evidence that this alternative approach to doing research can enrich the social sciences by more effectively connecting research to efforts to address real world problems as people experience them. This essay provides a genealogy of efforts to connect Political Science to politics, a review of the major critiques of mainstream research, an explication of the rationale for more problem-driven, mixed methods research, a specification of the key principles of the phronetic approach, and examples of its application in the public realm. The essay concludes with implications for realizing a more political Political Science by way of taking a phronetic approach.