Journal articles: 'Communities of Enterprise (CoEs)'

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Locke, Rachel, Jane Bell, Samantha Scallan, Bee Ozguler, and Susi Caesar. "Learning and the development of professional practice of GP appraisers." British Journal of General Practice 68, suppl 1 (June 2018): bjgp18X697409. http://dx.doi.org/10.3399/bjgp18x697409.

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BackgroundAn additional portfolio role GPs can take on is as an appraiser. Whilst clinical and education roles are well-defined, less is known about how appraisers learn the skills to appraise and develop their own repertoire of practice.AimParticipating in groups can be a way of learning and improving professional practice. This study uses insights from ‘communities of practice’ (COP) as a way of understanding an under-explored aspect of the development of appraisers.MethodIn-depth interviews with appraisers (both new and long established i.e. ‘lead appraisers’) were analysed using Saldana’s (2016) approach2 to coding and interpretation of qualitative data. The methodology foregrounds constructivist interpretation based on a theory of learning that situates learning within the social milieu of practice and a view of the world as socially constructed. The researchers’ part in this process is to make interpretations through engagement with data.ResultsCOP is used as a conceptual framework drawing on ‘mutual engagement’, ‘joint enterprise’ and ‘shared repertoire’ as a priori codes.3 The setting is a country where a system of appraisal was introduced in 2009 and prior to this there was no formal system. Studying appraisers in a new, unfamiliar setting makes learning more apparent.ConclusionThis study is part of on-going work looking at the role of the medical appraiser. The paper draws out implications for the development of this new professional group.

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Liebschutz, Sarah F. "Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities: Reinventing Federalism for Distressed Communities." CrossRef Listing of Deleted DOIs 25, no. 3 (1995): 117. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3330690.

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Liebschutz, Sarah F. "Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities: Reinventing Federalism for Distressed Communities." Publius: The Journal of Federalism 25, no. 3 (1995): 117–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a038200.

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Kraybill, Donald B., Steven M. Nolt, and Erik J. Wesner. "Sources of enterprise success in Amish communities." Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy 5, no. 2 (May 31, 2011): 112–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17506201111131541.

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Ionescu, Mihail. "Flexible fault tolerance in distributed enterprise communities." International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing 3, no. 4 (2012): 224. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijguc.2012.051423.

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Finlayson, Eilidh, and Michael James Roy. "Empowering communities? Exploring roles in facilitated social enterprise." Social Enterprise Journal 15, no. 1 (February 4, 2019): 76–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/sej-04-2018-0035.

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PurposeStates and development bodies are increasingly stimulating social enterprise activity in communities as an empowering social and economic development intervention. This type of development initiative is often facilitated by actors who are external to communities, and the role of community members is not clear. This paper aims to explore whether facilitated social enterprise benefits or disempowers communities.Design/methodology/approachThe focus is a case study of a project based in Scotland designed to stimulate the creation of social enterprises involved in community growing. The case study approach involved a mix of methods, including formal (semi-structured) interviews, participant observation and analysis of documentary evidence. Analysis of findings was undertaken using Muñoz and Steinerowski’s (2012) theory of social entrepreneurial behaviour.FindingsFindings suggest that social enterprise that originates outside communities and is facilitated by external actors is potentially disempowering, particularly when social enterprise development does not necessarily align with community needs. The paper reiterates findings in previous studies that certain roles in facilitated social enterprise require to be community-led. Projects that do attempt to facilitate social enterprise would benefit from community participation at the project planning stage.Originality/valueIf facilitated social enterprise is increasingly promoted as an empowering development intervention, this paper provides insight about how facilitated social enterprise occurs in practice and gives preliminary information about possible barriers to empowerment using this approach to development.

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Kutay, Cat. "Knowledge Management as Enterprise." Australian Journal of Indigenous Education 36, S1 (2007): 137–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1326011100004816.

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AbstractIndigenous people have been for a long time deprived of financial benefit from their knowledge. Campaigns around the stolen wages and the “Pay the Rent” campaign highlight this. As does the endemic poverty and economic disenfranchisement experienced by many Indigenous people and communities in Australia. Recent enterprises developed by Indigenous people, such as the sale of art works, can be seen as examples of people receiving remuneration for tangible products deriving from their knowledge. Also, tourism involves the sale of selected knowledge in context. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is a rich and expanding area of enterprise development which supports the development of knowledge and its use in enterprise. While such work depends on the owner’s, or in this case Indigenous, control of the knowledge, it can open up new avenues for enterprise development. Knowledge about local land can be included in children’s computer games, knowledge about successful projects can be shared between communities through the immediacy and multimedia format afforded by online environments, and government reports and statistics can be accessed and analysed by Indigenous groups, given tools that suit a community’s abilities and needs. In particular the way in which ICT can be adapted to individual requirements make such tools ideal for communities which form such a varied and complex environment. The author believes it is important that Indigenous communities not only benefit from ICT by taking control of the technology for their purposes, but are also part of its creation and design to suit their aspirations. ICT is a highly flexible technology which can be tailored to many different enterprises. This paper presents some of the projects being developed at the University of New South Wales and suggests how these can be extended.

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Guy, Ido, Inbal Ronen, Elad Kravi, and Maya Barnea. "Increasing Activity in Enterprise Online Communities Using Content Recommendation." ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 23, no. 4 (September 2016): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2910581.

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DiRomualdo, Anthony, Dorothée El-Khoury, and Franco Girimonte. "HR in the digital age: how digital technology will change HR’s organization structure, processes and roles." Strategic HR Review 17, no. 5 (October 8, 2018): 234–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/shr-08-2018-0074.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the transformative impact of digital technology on the types of services offered by HR and how those services are delivered. The authors explore how the expanded role of technology will change the types of activities delivered by the corporate center, global business services (GBS), centers of excellence (COEs) and field-based HR. Based on the changes in activities, the authors explore the impact to existing roles (those changing and those disappearing) as well as the need for new roles to be created within HR. Design/methodology/approach The authors leverage early indicators from The Hackett Group’s 2017 HR Digital Transformation Study as well as The Hackett Group’s extensive database of paid HR benchmarks with Global 1000 companies to develop a point of view on how digital technology will transform HR processes, roles and organization structure. Findings HR organizations must begin planning the changes they will need to make to meet the demands of enterprise digital transformation and leverage the opportunities to improve HR capabilities, service offerings and performance. Originality/value The paper provides recommendations for getting the process started to transform the future HR organization.

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Soeprijadi, Liliek, Endang Yuli, Edi Susilo, and Rudianto Rudianto. "Model Joint Business Group Based Knowledge for Fishermen Community Empowerment Strategies (Case Study of Business Diversification on Solid Capture Region Cirebon City)." Business and Management Horizons 1, no. 1 (April 5, 2013): 96. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/bmh.v1i1.3485.

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The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of public capital fishing, fish processing business and micro-business skills to the programs and activities of the agency joint venture (KUB) coastal fishing town of Cirebon: to analyze the effect of public capital fishing, fish processing business and micro-enterprise skills through the agency the joint venture (KUB) fisherman exchange coastal fishing town of Cirebon: to analyze the effect of public capital fishing, fish processing business and micro-enterprise skills through a joint venture group institutions (KUB) and exchange fishing to conservation of fish resources in the coastal city of Cirebon , and to formulate a model of the joint venture (KUB) knowledge as a strategy of empowerment of fishing communities in the city of Cirebon. Analysis of regression weights measurement models with business groups (KUB) based knowledge as a fishing community empowerment strategy was as follows: capital fishing communities and micro-enterprise skills significantly influence the institutional joint venture (KUB) Cirebon fishermen. While the fish processing business variables didn’t significantly influence the institutional joint venture (KUB) Cirebon fishermen; stock fishing communities, fish processing business and micro-enterprise skills together through the institution of the joint venture (KUB) fisherman significant effect on the value of rate of coastal fishing town of Cirebon. While the partial correlation between public capital fishing, fish processing business and micro-enterprise skills exchange coastal fishing town of Cirebon was not significant; stock fishing communities, fish processing business and micro-enterprise skills together through the institution of the joint venture (KUB) and exchange rates have a significant effect fishing conservation of coastal fish resources Cirebon. While the partial correlation between public capital fishing, fish processing business and micro-business skills for the preservation of coastal fishery resources Cirebon was not significant, and KUB institutional model based knowledge capital in the form of fishing communities, fish processing business and micro-enterprise skills through a strategy of empowerment fishing communities significantly influence conservation of fish resources in coastal city of Cirebon.

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Liang, Ruoyu, Linghao Zhang, and Wei Guo. "Investigating active users’ sustained participation in brand communities." Kybernetes 48, no. 10 (November 4, 2019): 2353–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/k-08-2018-0439.

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Purpose Members’ sustained participation positively influences success of brand community. Although scholars have confirmed the effects of social capital on continuance intention in third-party hosted communities, little work has been done to explore these relationships in context of enterprise-sponsored brand communities, especially, the precursors of active members’ sustained participation in such context is still unclear. Besides, how to recognize active users with high precision and coverage remains an open question. Therefore, this paper aims to propose a novel method to identify active users effectively and investigate the antecedents of their continuance intention from perspective of social capital in enterprise-sponsored brand community. Design/methodology/approach This work established several social networks based on the information of Xiaomi smartphone forum users’ posts and feedbacks. Node centrality (out-degree) analysis was adopted to identify the users with high degree of active in these networks, and then behaviour analysis was performed to exclude the community managers from the group of active users. Finally, a research model was proposed based on the theory of social capital. It was tested by applying partial least squares technique, and the data were collected from a survey of members (n = 327) of Xiaomi forum. Findings The empirical results showed that the proposed method can recognize the active users effectively. Additionally, social tie, identification, trust and shared vision were proved to be significant predictors of active users’ continuance intention in the context of enterprise-sponsored brand community. Originality/value This paper contributes to the information system usage literature and provides opinions regarding how social capital influence active users’ sustained participation in enterprise-sponsored brand community. Besides, this work proposed a novel method to identify active users, which will be useful to assist enterprises to improve their community management.

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Gardziński, Tomasz. "ABOUT A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE..." International Journal of New Economics and Social Sciences 9, no. 1 (June 28, 2019): 445–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.3061.

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A social enterprise is an innovative phenomenon in which every day entrepreneurial problems are solved by an entrepreneurial initiative of cooperating individuals. Espe-cially in regions with large social and human capital, among communities with high trust, sensitivity and a sense of common social purpose in business, people discover that together we can do more, especially in our small homelands that constitute the microcosm of economic life. The aim of the article is to show that in the era of rapid technological progress, social innovations are a boundary condition for the survival of not only social enterprises, but also commercial ones, which to a smaller or larger extent also realize or can achieve social goals.

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CURRY, JOHN, HAN DONKER, and RICHARD KREHBIEL. "DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS IN ABORIGINAL COMMUNITIES: THE CANADIAN EXPERIENCE." Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship 14, no. 01 (March 2009): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1084946709001119.

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This study examines the historical development of corporate governance structures in First Nations communities in British Columbia, where development corporations are employed to assist privately-owned and community-owned entrepreneurial enterprises. First Nations entrepreneurial activity functions in an environment where business must market to a global economy while preserving traditional values, beliefs and other cultural elements. A brief history of First Nations and their enterprise development efforts is presented. Empirical research findings describe the close relationship between local community and corporate goals and identify conflicts of interest between political leaders and management of development corporations. The evidence demonstrates entrepreneurial success and economic development of First Nations communities rely on an independent decision-making process within business development corporations. An alternative business model is developed utilizing the empirical research, social enterprise literature and the unique regional cooperative model of the Mondragon region of Spain. The new model respects the land base and other environmental and social values while providing a framework for economic success. Exploration of this unique enterprise-to-region development model, which incorporates consideration for the natural environment and social and cultural values, offers lessons to other societies and regions that will assist in the movement toward an economic system based on concepts of sustainability.

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Wahi, Ashok Kumar, Yajulu Medury, and Rajnish Kumar Misra. "Social Media." International Journal of Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Technology 5, no. 3 (July 2014): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijssmet.2014070101.

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The purpose of this paper is to provide an understanding of the Web 2.0 phenomenon and social media and its implications on customer relationship management, in order to learn that online communities and social networking are at the core of the enterprise of future or Enterprise 2.0. A range of published articles and books regarding Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, CRM 2.0 and social networking are examined and critiqued. A model is proposed to establish the association between Enterprise 2.0 and Information Technology from the perspective of social media. The sources are divided into three basic elements: Web 2.0, Online Social Networking websites and CRM 2.0. If Enterprise 2.0 is the enterprise of future then Social Media is the future of enterprise. Customer engagement and customer value proposition form the core of Enterprise 2.0 and online communities and social media form the corresponding core for knowledge creation and integration of Enterprise 2.0. Social media should affect customer relationship management in organizations. In the knowledge society of the future extended enterprises will become the basis of business rather than the competitive strength of individual enterprises and therefore the need to proactively prepare for it.

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Mason, Cecily, Tanya Castleman, and Craig Parker. "Communities of enterprise: developing regional SMEs in the knowledge economy." Journal of Enterprise Information Management 21, no. 6 (October 17, 2008): 571–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17410390810911186.

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Lichtenstein, Gregg A., Thomas S. Lyons, and Nailya Kutzhanova. "Building Entrepreneurial Communities: The Appropriate Role of Enterprise Development Activities." Community Development Society. Journal 35, no. 1 (March 2004): 5–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15575330409490119.

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Myers, Heather. "ENTERPRISE IN NATIVE COMMUNITIES IN THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES OF CANADA." Humanomics 15, no. 2 (February 1999): 184–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eb018832.

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MEREDITH, GEOFFREY G., and DENNIS HOWARD. "COUNSELLING ENTREPRENEURS AS RESOURCES IN REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT." Journal of Enterprising Culture 05, no. 04 (December 1997): 447–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218495897000259.

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Regional economic or regional enterprise development has been subject to intense research by economists, planners, enterprise specialists and policy specialists for decades. The paper examines various models for regional economic or regional enterprise development and focuses on small towns and communities as an essential component of development. The paper reviews the role of entrepreneurs in enterprise strategies linked to towns and communities and the origins of entrepreneurs and strategies that might be adopted at the regional level to provide support for the entrepreneurial event. The results of a field study of over three hundred Australian regional development centres small enterprise clients, the strategies of those centres impact on entrepreneurs, reveal that the proposed objectives were not achieved and the strategies were in retrospect questionable. The paper concludes with recommended strategies for practitioners and policy makers dedicated to regional development and recognising the role of entrepreneurs in that process.

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McHugh, Neil, Morag Gillespie, Jana Loew, and Cam Donaldson. "First Steps towards Self-Employment – Microcredit for Enterprise in Scotland." Scottish Affairs 23, no. 2 (May 2014): 169–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/scot.2014.0016.

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While lending for small businesses and business start-up is a long-standing feature of economic policy in the UK and Scotland, little is known about the support available for those taking the first steps into self-employment, particularly people from poorer communities. This paper presents the results of a project that aimed to address this gap. It mapped provision of support for enterprise, including microcredit (small loans for enterprise of £5,000 or less) and grants available to people in deprived communities. It found more programmes offering grants than loans. Grants programmes, although more likely to be time limited and often linked to European funding, were generally better targeted to poor communities than loan programmes that were more financially sustainable. The introduction of the Grameen Bank to Scotland will increase access to microcredit, but this paper argues that there is a place – and a need – for both loans and grants to support enterprise development across Scotland. A Scottish economic strategy should take account of all levels of enterprise development and, in striving towards a fairer Scotland, should ensure that the poorest people and communities are not excluded from self-employment because of the lack of small amounts of support necessary to take the first steps.

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van der Linden, Dirk, Stijn J. B. A. Hoppenbrouwers, and Henderik A. Proper. "On the Identification of Modeler Communities." International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design 5, no. 2 (April 2014): 22–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijismd.2014040102.

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The authors discuss the use and challenges of identifying communities with shared semantics in Enterprise Modeling (EM). People tend to understand modeling meta-concepts (i.e., a modeling language's constructs or types) in a certain way and can be grouped by this conceptual understanding. Having an insight into the typical communities and their composition (e.g., what kind of people constitute such a semantic community) can make it easier to predict how a conceptual modeler with a certain background will generally understand the meta-concepts s/he uses, which is useful for e.g., validating model semantics and improving the efficiency of the modeling process itself. The authors have observed that in practice decisions to group people based on certain shared properties are often made, but are rarely backed up by empirical data demonstrating their supposed efficacy. The authors demonstrate the use of psychometric data from two studies involving experienced (enterprise) modeling practitioners and computing science students to find such communities. The authors also discuss the challenge that arises in finding common real-world factors shared between their members to identify them by and conclude that there is no empirical support for commonly used (and often implicit) grouping properties such as similar background, focus and modeling language.

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Weaver, Rasheda L. "Social enterprise self-employment programs." Social Enterprise Journal 12, no. 1 (May 3, 2016): 4–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/sej-06-2015-0017.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce social enterprise self-employment programs (SEPs) as a two-dimensional human capital investment strategy that can potentially advance economic development. Design/methodology/approach SEPs are frequently utilized as a tool for increasing economic self-sufficiency in poor communities. Literature discussing the use of commercial enterprise SEPs to increase economic development highlights the potential for creatingthe similar programs geared toward creating social enterprises. Human capital theory is used to illustrate how social enterprise SEPs can foster human capital, a predictor of economic growth and development. Examples of existing social enterprise SEPs are discussed to highlight how they can be designed. Cases of human capital-oriented social enterprises are also used to outline different business forms social enterprise SEPs can help create. Findings This general review paper suggests that social enterprise SEPs can be a sound two-dimensional human capital investment strategy. It argues that social enterprise SEPs can train aspiring social entrepreneurs to create businesses than subsequently foster human capital in their local communities. Research limitations/implications This paper introduces the concept of social enterprise SEPs, opening up a new area of research for scholars to explore. Researchers should examine participant and organizational factors of existing social enterprise SEPs to assess their impact, as literature has linked them to success rates of commercial SEPs. Practical implications This paper emphasizes the need for SEPs to offer task-related training as opposed to general business training to prepare social entrepreneurs in effort to run successful social enterprises. Originality/value The concept of social enterprise SEPs is new, and literature pertaining to it is scarce. This paper introduces them as a tool for attending to community problems while equipping future generations of social entrepreneurs with the skills to create social enterprises.

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Gorman, Julian T., Melissa Bentivoglio, Chris Brady, Penelope Wurm, Sivaram Vemuri, and Yasmina Sultanbawa. "Complexities in developing Australian Aboriginal enterprises based on natural resources." Rangeland Journal 42, no. 2 (2020): 113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rj20010.

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Across the world’s rangelands, livelihoods of millions of people are dependent on customary and commercial use of wildlife. Many Australian Aboriginal communities also aspire towards developing natural resource-based enterprises but there is a unique combination of historical, legislative and cultural factors that make this process complex. Typically, government support for Indigenous enterprise development has focussed largely on development of ‘social enterprise’, with subsidies coming from various government community development programs. This has resulted in some increase in participation and employment, but often inadequate attention to economic aspects of enterprise development leading to low levels of business success. This paper will examine historical, legislative and institutional dimensions in business development in Aboriginal communities. It does this through a case study of business enterprise development of the Kakadu Plum products by the Indigenous people of the Thamarrurr Region of the Northern Territory, Australia, using a participant observation research method. We found that attention on important economic criteria was subsumed by a focus on social enterprise priorities during the development of this natural resource-based enterprise. This resulted in a very slow transition of the ‘social enterprise’ to the ‘financial enterprise’, due largely to fragmented business decisions and inefficient value chains. We call for a refocus of natural resource-based enterprise development programs in remote Australian Aboriginal townships to incorporate greater emphasis on business acumen within the complex social, cultural and political fabric.

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Oberoi, Roopinder, Ian G. Cook, Jamie P. Halsall, Michael Snowden, and Pete Woodock. "Redefining social enterprise in the global world: study of China and India." Social Responsibility Journal 16, no. 7 (July 8, 2019): 1001–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/srj-09-2018-0248.

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Purpose Social enterprise plays a pivotal role in helping people and communities. Since the global financial crisis of 2008, there has been an upsurge of social enterprise within a local, national and global context. The purpose of this paper is to explore the debates and issues presented by social enterprise in a very complex globalized world. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, the authors apply two geographical case studies: China and India. The purpose for selecting both China and India is their increasing economic super power on the global stage. It is argued that the concept of social enterprise within the geographical context of China and India is significant to their individual economies. Findings The concept of social enterprise within the geographical context of China and India is significant to their individual economies and as explored within the notion of “think global, act local” the conceptual debates of place, space and time enables people to take positive action and enable the development of healthy communities. Originality/value This paper contributes to the discussion around the definition of the nature of social enterprise and gives concrete examples of the contextually specific nature of the term.

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O'Connor, Tom Niall. "Engaging Communities as Home Care Providers, Utilizing a Social Enterprise Model." International Journal of Integrated Care 17, no. 5 (October 17, 2017): 41. http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/ijic.3342.

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Fuller, Don, Julia Caldicott, and Simon Wilde. "Ecotourism enterprise and sustainable development in remote Indigenous communities in Australia." International Journal of Environment, Workplace and Employment 2, no. 4 (2006): 373. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijewe.2006.011756.

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van der Horst, Dan. "Social enterprise and renewable energy: emerging initiatives and communities of practice." Social Enterprise Journal 4, no. 3 (September 26, 2008): 171–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17508610810922686.

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Amoretti, Michele, and Francesco Zanichelli. "Distributed reputation management for service-oriented peer-to-peer enterprise communities." International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering 13, no. 2 (2016): 147. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijcse.2016.078443.

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Zanichelli, Francesco, and Michele Amoretti. "Distributed reputation management for service-oriented peer-to-peer enterprise communities." International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering 13, no. 2 (2016): 147. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijcse.2016.10000109.

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Smith, Anne MJ, and Julie McColl. "Contextual influences on social enterprise management in rural and urban communities." Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit 31, no. 5 (July 7, 2016): 572–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0269094216655519.

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Ripberger, Joseph T., Carol L. Silva, Hank C. Jenkins-Smith, Jinan Allan, Makenzie Krocak, Wesley Wehde, and Sean Ernst. "Exploring Community Differences in Tornado Warning Reception, Comprehension, and Response across the United States." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 101, no. 6 (June 1, 2020): E936—E948. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/bams-d-19-0064.1.

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Abstract Effective risk communication in the weather enterprise requires deep knowledge about the communities that enterprise members serve. This includes knowledge of the atmospheric and climate conditions in these communities as well as knowledge about the characteristics of the people living in these communities. Enterprise members often have access to data that facilitate the first type of knowledge, but relatively little social or behavioral data on the populations they serve. This article introduces an effort to overcome these challenges by developing a database of community statistics and an interactive platform that provides dynamic access to the database. Specific emphasis is given to one set of statistics in the community database: estimates of tornado warning reception, comprehension, and response by county warning area in the contiguous United States. Exploration of these estimates indicates significant variation in reception and comprehension across communities. This variation broadly aligns with tornado climatology, but there are noticeable differences within climatologically comparable regions that underline the importance of community-specific information. Verification of the estimates using independent observations from a random sample of communities confirms that the estimates are largely accurate, but there are a few consistent anomalies that prompt questions about why some communities exhibit higher or lower levels of reception, comprehension, and response than models suggest. The article concludes with a discussion of next steps and an invitation to use and contribute to the project as it progresses.

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Vélez-Rolón, Adela M., Manuel Méndez-Pinzón, and Oscar L. Acevedo. "Open Innovation Community for University–Industry Knowledge Transfer: A Colombian Case." Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity 6, no. 4 (December 5, 2020): 181. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/joitmc6040181.

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Academia–enterprise collaboration is understood as a determinant that improves innovation and competitiveness. The mechanisms by which this collaboration occurs have awakened increasing interest among academics, as well as in the business sector. This research aims to identify how open innovation communities can mediate the academia-enterprise relationship, as well as the factors that are more affected by this mediation. Based on the literature, the article addresses the definition of open innovation communities (OICs), university–enterprise cooperation, knowledge transfer (KT), as well as an understanding of OICs as a mechanism for academia–enterprise transfer. An analysis of twelve OICs, conformed by professors, students, graduates, and experts from a Colombian higher education institution is performed. For the data analysis, a factor analysis involving structural equation modeling is carried out. Our results highlight the most important characteristics to take into account in the study of knowledge transfer when OICs are involved, and they also indicate the level of connection between these factors.

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Qin, Min, and Su Liang. "User recognition mechanism and user contribution behavior in enterprise-hosted online product innovation communities." Nankai Business Review International 10, no. 1 (February 21, 2019): 17–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/nbri-01-2018-0008.

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Purpose This paper aims to conceptualize two patterns of user recognition mechanisms and two kinds of user contribution behavior in enterprise-hosted online product innovation community and explain their relationships between user recognition mechanisms and user contribution behavior of online product innovation community. Design/methodology/approach A Chinese enterprise-hosted online innovation community and an American enterprise-hosted online innovation community are selected as research objects. Four Logit models are developed and some hypotheses are supposed from the perspective of prosocial behavior theory. Objective user data with three months from two online product innovation communities are collected to test with Logit regression analysis. Findings Findings show that there are obvious correlations between user recognition mechanisms and user contribution behavior, and there is also an obvious difference in community user activity level between the quantity-based user recognition mechanism community and the quality-based user recognition mechanism community. More specifically, in the online product innovation community with quantity-based recognition mechanism, both variables of peer recognition and community image motivation significantly affect user proactive contribution behavior. In the online product innovation community with quality-based recognition mechanism, the variable of peer recognition significantly affects both user proactive contribution behavior and user responsive contribution behavior; the variable of community image motivation significantly affects both user proactive contribution behavior and user responsive contribution behavior. Practical implications Although it is voluntary, online user voluntary contribution behavior still need to be presented, recognized and affirmed by community. For enterprise-hosted online community managers, they should pay more attention to design the reasonable online community user recognition mechanism with the coexistence of quantity and quality. Originality/value The theoretical contribution in this study is to enrich the existing research theme about enterprise-hosted online product innovation community. First, it conceptualizes two patterns of user recognition mechanisms. Second, it regards the variable of user contribution behavior as the co-existence of proactive contribution and responsive contribution. Third, from the perspective of prosocial behavior theory, it is an important supplement to explain the mechanism of user contribution behavior in enterprise-hosted online product innovation community. Fourth, it deepens the overall understanding of the relationship between user recognition mechanism and user contribution behavior. This study provides theoretical guidance for enterprises how to design reasonable and efficient online product innovation community platform. The theoretical contribution in this study is to enrich the existing research theme about enterprise-hosted online product innovation community. First, it conceptualizes two patterns of user recognition mechanisms. Second, it regards the variable of user contribution behavior as the co-existence of proactive contribution and responsive contribution. Third, from the perspective of prosocial behavior theory, it is an important supplement to explain the mechanism of user contribution behavior in enterprise-hosted online product innovation community. Fourth, it deepens the overall understanding of the relationship between user recognition mechanism and user contribution behavior. This study provides theoretical guidance for enterprises how to design reasonable and efficient online product innovation community platform.

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Burnett, Kathryn A., and Mike Danson. "Enterprise and entrepreneurship on islands and remote rural environments." International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation 18, no. 1 (January 11, 2017): 25–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1465750316686237.

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Although there has been increasing interest in rural enterprises, relatively little has been written on enterprise and entrepreneurship on islands where problems tend to be different, additional and exaggerated. Economic and cultural development agencies intervene to support such remote and isolated communities but the significance of the dominant metropolitan paradigm in the peripheralization of those establishing and running businesses on islands needs critiqued. This article contrasts experiences but highlights similarities, rather than differences, of rural small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries and comparative Northern European locations. The key role of social capital, cultural values and norms is analysed and comment presented on small island experiences. Arguments are made for policies to be proofed for locational differences and for further research to understand the opportunities offered by islands and coastal communities in a world where the particularities of place and space are increasingly valued, and aspects of remoteness can be rearticulated to good effect.

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Akrich, Madeleine. "From Communities of Practice to Epistemic Communities: Health Mobilizations on the Internet." Sociological Research Online 15, no. 2 (May 2010): 116–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.2152.

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This paper describes the emergence of new activist groups in the health sector, spinning off from internet discussion groups. In the first part, it shows how self-help discussion groups can be considered as communities of practice in which, partly thanks to the Internet media, collective learning activities result in the constitution of experiencial knowledge, the appropriation of exogenous sources of knowledge, including medical knoweldge and the articulation of these different sources of knowledge in some lay expertise. In the second part, it describes how activist groups might emerge from these discussion groups and develop specific modes of action drawing upon the forms of expertise constituted through the Internet groups. Activists groups together with self-help groups might form epistemic communities ( HAAS 1992 ), i.e. groups of experts engaged in a policy enterprise in which knowledge plays a major role : in the confrontation of health activists with professionals, the capacity to translate political claims into the langage of science appears as a condition to be (even) heard and be taken into consideration.

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Murphy, Patrick J., Jack Smothers, Milorad M. Novicevic, John H. Humphreys, Foster B. Roberts, and Artem Kornetskyy. "Social enterprise in Antebellum America: the case of Nashoba (1824-1829)." Journal of Management History 24, no. 1 (January 8, 2018): 99–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jmh-06-2017-0032.

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Purpose This paper examines the case of Nashoba, a Tennessee-based social enterprise founded in 1824 by Scottish immigrant Frances Wright. The Nashoba venture intended to diminish the institution of slavery in the USA through entrepreneurial activity over its five years of operation. Design/methodology/approach This study methodology entailed mining primary source data from Wright’s letters; communications with her cofounders and contemporaries; and documentations of enterprise operations. The authors examined these data using social enterprise theory with a focus on personal identity and time-laden empirical aspects not captured by traditional methodologies. Findings The social enterprise concept of a single, self-sustaining model generating more than one denomination of value in a blended form has a deeper history than the literature acknowledges. As an entrepreneur, Wright made strategic decisions in a context of supply-side and demand-side threats to the venture. The social enterprise engaged injustice by going beyond market and state contexts to generate impact in the realms of institutions and non-excludable public goods. Research limitations/implications This study generates two formal implications for the development of new research questions in social enterprise studies. The first implication addresses the relation between social entrepreneurs and their constituencies. The second implication pertains to the effects of macro-level education, awareness and politics on social enterprise performance and impact. The implications herald new insights in social enterprise, such as the limits of moral conviction and the importance of social disruption. Originality/value This paper broadens the current understanding of how social enterprises redress unjust and unethical institutions. It also contributes new insights into social enterprise launch and growth based on shared values within communities and coordinated strategic intentions across communities.

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Cisneros, Hon Henry G. "Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities: Moving from Legislative Concept to Successful Implementation." Policy Perspectives 1, no. 1 (May 1, 1994): 59. http://dx.doi.org/10.4079/pp.v1i1.3782.

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Huang, Peng, and Zhongju Zhang. "Participation in Open Knowledge Communities and Job-Hopping: Evidence from Enterprise Software." MIS Quarterly 40, no. 3 (March 3, 2016): 785–806. http://dx.doi.org/10.25300/misq/2016/40.3.13.

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Kerr, Don, Kevin J. Burgess, Luke Houghton, and Peter A. Murray. "Improving training in enterprise resource planning systems implementation through communities of practice." International Journal of Learning and Change 6, no. 3/4 (2012): 207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijlc.2012.050874.

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Huang, Peng, and John Zhang. "Participation in Open Knowledge Communities and Job-hopping: Evidence from Enterprise Software." Academy of Management Proceedings 2014, no. 1 (January 2014): 12220. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2014.12220abstract.

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Calleson, Diane C., Catherine Jordan, and Sarena D. Seifer. "Community-Engaged Scholarship: Is Faculty Work in Communities a True Academic Enterprise?" Academic Medicine 80, no. 4 (April 2005): 317–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00001888-200504000-00002.

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Woollard, David, Michael Zhang, and Oswald Jones. "Academic Enterprise and Regional Economic Growth." Industry and Higher Education 21, no. 6 (December 2007): 387–403. http://dx.doi.org/10.5367/000000007783099836.

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This paper examines the potential and actual contributions to regional development and growth that UK higher education institutions can make through their ‘third mission’ activities. The authors adopt a case study approach and qualitative methods to analyse the details of academic activities, especially those related to business sectors and the welfare of local communities. Their data and analysis show that university-wide academic enterprise activities are not systematically organized or coordinated. The very concept of ‘academic enterprise’ has not been well received by the majority of academic staff. The findings have two major policy and managerial implications. First, there needs to be a reduction in the reliance on income from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) in response to the progressive decrease in unit funding. Second, universities need to enhance employer-led curriculum development both through the creation of new businesses and by improving university-business links.

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Barraket, Jo, Heather Douglas, Robyn Eversole, Chris Mason, Joanne McNeill, and Bronwen Morgan. "Classifying social enterprise models in Australia." Social Enterprise Journal 13, no. 4 (November 6, 2017): 345–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/sej-09-2017-0045.

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PurposeThis paper aims to document the nature of social enterprise models in Australia, their evolution and institutional drivers. Design/methodology/approachThe paper draws on secondary analysis of source materials and the existing literature on social enterprise in Australia. Analysis was verified through consultation with key actors in the social enterprise ecosystem. FindingsWith its historical roots in an enterprising non-profit sector and the presence of cooperative and mutual businesses, the practice of social enterprise in Australia is relatively mature. Yet, the language of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship remains marginal and contested. The nature of social enterprise activity in Australia reflects the role of an internally diverse civil society within an economically privileged society and in response to an increasingly residualised welfare state. Australia’s geography and demography have also played determining roles in the function and presence of social enterprise, particularly in rural and remote communities. Originality/valueThe paper contributes to comparative understandings of social enterprise and provides the first detailed account of social enterprise development in Australia.

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Thamwipat, Kuntida, Pornpapatsorn Princhankol, and Naphat Deeyen. "The Development of Multimedia and Activities to Promote Products Made by State Enterprise Communities in the Bangmod Project 4.0 Through Community-Based Learning." International Education Studies 12, no. 4 (March 20, 2019): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ies.v12n4p49.

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This research was aimed to explore the demands of the people in the communities in order to develop multimedia and activities to promote products made by state enterprise communities in the Bangmod Project 4.0 through Community-Based Learning among undergraduate students of King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, to examine the perception and the satisfaction of the local people regarding the multimedia and activities, to evaluate the work and to determine the satisfaction of the students towards Community-Based Learning. The tools in this study consisted of 1) the questionnaire on the demands of the local people regarding the multimedia and activities, 2) the multimedia and activities to promote products made by the state enterprise communities in Bangmod Project 4.0 which included offline and online contents as well as special activities, 3) the quality evaluation forms in terms of contents and media presentation, 4) the perception survey form, 5) the satisfaction questionnaire for the local people, 6) the self-evaluation form for students, and 7) the satisfaction questionnaire for students towards the community-based learning. There were two sampling groups as in 1) 22 local people out of 4 state enterprise communities which participated in Bangmod Project 4.0 and they were purposively chosen for this research, 2) 30 undergraduate students who enrolled in the ETM 358 Marketing Communications course which followed the community-based learning approach and these students were purposively chosen out of those who went to the field at least 4 times. The research results showed that the local people in the state enterprise communities expressed a level of demands on the multimedia and activities to promote their products for online and offline media as well as special activities. They wanted to promote 12 products. The quality of the multimedia and activities as evaluated by the experts in contents showed that the quality was at a very good level (x ̅ = 4.67, S.D. = 0.20). The quality of the media presentation was at a very good level (x ̅ = 4.87, S.D. = 0.24). The perception level of the local people about the multimedia and activities was at a high level (x ̅ = 4.41, S.D. = 0.18) and the local people expressed the highest level of satisfaction towards the multimedia and activities (x ̅ = 4.80, S.D. = 0.79). The students rated themselves at a very good level (83.72%) and their satisfaction towards the community-based learning was at the highest level (x ̅ = 4.77, S.D. = 0.24). It can be concluded that the multimedia and activities to promote products made by state enterprise communities in Bangmod Project 4.0 through Community-Based Learning were of good quality and they could be used to promote the products of the local communities.

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Broniatowski, David A. "Communicating Meaning in the Intelligence Enterprise." Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences 6, no. 1 (March 2019): 38–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2372732218792061.

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Intelligence community experts face challenges communicating the results of analysis products to policy makers. Given the high-stakes nature of intelligence analyses, the consequences of misinformation may be dire, potentially leading to costly, ill-informed policies or lasting damage to national security. Much is known regarding how to effectively communicate complex analysis products to policy makers possessing different sources of expertise. Fuzzy-Trace Theory, an empirically-validated psychological account of how decision makers derive meaning from complex stimuli, emphasizes the importance of communicating the essential bottom-line of an analysis (“gist”), in parallel with precise details (“verbatim”). Verbatim details can be prone to misinterpretation when presented out of context. Several examples from intelligence analyses and laboratory studies are discussed, with implications for integrating knowledge from multiple sources of expertise, communicating complex technical information to nontechnical recipients, and identifying and training effective communicators. Collaboration between the academic and intelligence communities would facilitate new insights and scientifically grounded implementation of findings.

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Chen, Keda, and Kunhui Ye. "Market Commonality and Competition in Communities—An Empirical Study Based on Bidding Data of the Construction Market." Buildings 11, no. 10 (September 26, 2021): 435. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings11100435.

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In contrast to traditional enterprise rivalry, the construction market competition is irregular on the surface due to the randomization of client targets and the one-time competition organization, which conflicts with construction businesses’ perceptions of the nature and future trend of rivalry. Therefore, contractors urgently need to accurately understand the competitive environment in which they will operate. In construction, few empirical studies exist on competitive environments from the standpoint of enterprise-to-enterprise competitive interactions. Based on market commonality, several hypotheses concerning the competitive pattern of the construction market have been proposed. To test these, a model of competing relationship networks is created using 7402 bid-winner notices for construction projects in Chongqing, China, from 2015 to 2018, followed by quantitative analysis and discussion of the model’s characteristic features. The findings suggest that there is a “community-type” rivalry in the building market, which represents the essential characteristics of market commonality. The research shows that the competitive action of construction enterprises is affected by construction technology, industrial division of labor and regional markets, and the competitive relationship between them tends to be “strong-strong”. This study reveals that the “community” competitive relationship in the construction industry may be a unique phenomenon, expands the application and development of market commonality and enterprise clusters in the construction economy, and provides theoretical guidance for construction enterprises to accurately recognize competitive behavior and decision making.

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Gleerup, Janne, Lars Hulgaard, and Simon Teasdale. "Action research and participatory democracy in social enterprise." Social Enterprise Journal 16, no. 1 (October 3, 2019): 46–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/sej-02-2019-0012.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce the reader to the Nordic tradition of Critical Utopian Action Research (CUAR) and to demonstrate how CUAR might reinvigorate participatory democracy as an intrinsic characteristic of social enterprise. This leads us to sketch out the beginnings of how researchers might work with communities to help realise their democratic impulses through social enterprise. Design/methodology/approach This paper aims to synthesise the participatory action research literature, particularly CUAR, with literature on social enterprise and democracy to demonstrate how the two approaches might fruitfully be combined. Findings The authors show how CUAR might be utilised by researchers, to articulate new social enterprise organisational responses to local problems or to reinvigorate democracy within existing social enterprises. Originality/value This exploratory paper marks (we believe) the first attempt to bring together social enterprise and CUAR.

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WILLIAMS, COLIN C., and SARA NADIN. "THE COMMONALITY AND CHARACTER OF OFF-THE-BOOKS ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A COMPARISON OF DEPRIVED AND AFFLUENT URBAN NEIGHBORHOODS." Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship 15, no. 03 (September 2010): 345–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1084946710001592.

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Until now, few studies have evaluated whether there are geographical variations in the extent and character of off-the-books entrepreneurship. The aim of this paper is to evaluate whether and how the prevalence and nature of off-the-books entrepreneurship varies across deprived and affluent neighborhoods in an advanced economy. To do this, face-to-face interviews were conducted with 511 households in English affluent and deprived urban neighborhoods, and are reported here. The finding in both communities surveyed is that wholly legitimate enterprises represent just the tip of the iceberg. Beneath the surface in all areas is a large hidden enterprise culture composed of both registered businesses trading off-the-books as well as unregistered wholly off-the-books enterprises. However, the preponderance of both early-stage entrepreneurs as well as the established self-employed to trade off-the-books is greater in deprived than affluent urban communities, as is the tendency for entrepreneurs to operate business on a wholly off-the-books basis, intimating that deprived urban communities are perhaps relatively more enterprising and entrepreneurial than is currently recognized. The paper thus concludes by contending that across all localities, but especially in deprived urban neighborhoods, legitimizing the hidden enterprise culture could be an important but so far untapped means of promoting enterprise and economic development.

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Sacchetti, Silvia, and Colin Campbell. "Creating Space for Communities: Social Enterprise and the Bright Side of Social Capital." Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity 3, no. 2 (2014): 32–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.5947/jeod.2014.012.

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Sperry, James R., Donald L. Miller, and Richard E. Sharpless. "The Kingdom of Coal: Work, Enterprise, and Ethnic Communities in the Mine Fields." Journal of American History 73, no. 4 (March 1987): 1048. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1904116.

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Toner, Anna, Isaac Lyne, and Patrick Ryan. "Reaching the promised land: can social enterprise reduce social exclusion and empower communities?" Education, Knowledge and Economy 2, no. 1 (May 9, 2008): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17496890801953901.

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