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The Role of Human Capital in Scaling Social Entrepreneurship
Journal of Management for Global Sustainability
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The Role of Human Capital in Scaling Social Entrepreneurship
El papel del capital humano en la ampliación del emprendimiento social |
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| Creator |
Harris, Dawn; Loyola University Chicago Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. Kor, Yasemin; University of South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.A. |
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| Description |
In this article, we discuss the importance of human assets in growing and scaling a social venture in order to achieve its objectives and attain financial sustainability. We focus on the three key dimensions of how a social enterprise’s human assets contribute to the effectiveness of the company’s operations and its missions: 1) human capital acquisition, 2) human capital development, and 3) human capital retention. In discussing and unpacking these three dimensions, we draw from rich insights and real- life examples from two social ventures we studied: Solar Sister of Uganda and E-Health Point of India. These inductively-generated research insights underscore the importance of productive engagement of human assets for the long-term viability of social ventures and in achieving their objectives on a broader social scale.
En este artículo, se discute la importancia del capital humano en el crecimiento y la ampliación de una empresa social a fin de lograr sus objetivos y alcanzar la sostenibilidad financiera. Nos centramos en las tres dimensiones clave para que los activos humanos de una empresa social contribuyan a la eficacia de las operaciones de la empresa y sus misiones: 1) la adquisición de capital humano, 2) el desarrollo del capital humano, y 3) la retención del capital humano. Al discutir y desarrollar estas tres dimen- siones, sacamos ideas enriquecedoras y ejemplos de la vida real de dos empresas sociales que estudiamos: Solar Sisterde Uganda y la E-Health Point de la India. Estas ideas de la investigación generada inductivamente enfatiza el compromiso productivo de los activos humanos para la viabilidad a largo plazo de las empresas sociales y la consecución de sus objetivos en una escala social más amplia. |
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International Association of Jesuit Business Schools
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| Contributor |
Katherine Lucey of Solar Sister
Amit Jain of E-Health Point Thane Kreiner, the Executive Director of the Center for Science, Technology, and Society at Santa Clara University — |
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2013-08-28
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — |
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application/pdf
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| Identifier |
https://journals.ateneo.edu/ojs/index.php/jmgs/article/view/JM2013.01210
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| Source |
Journal of Management for Global Sustainability; Vol. 1, No. 2 (2013): Special Issue on Social Entrepreneurship; 163-172
2244-6893 2244-6885 |
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| Language |
eng
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| Relation |
https://journals.ateneo.edu/ojs/index.php/jmgs/article/view/JM2013.01210/1698
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