13 articles in this issue
Nicolau Reinhard, Rosa Maria Fischer, Graziella Comini
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Rosa Maria Fischer, Graziella Comini
James Austin, Howard Stevenson, Jane Wei-Skillern
Entrepreneurship has been the engine propelling much of the growth of the business sector as well as a driving force behind the rapid expansion of the social sector. This article offers a comparative analysis of commercial and social entrepreneurship usin... see more
Graziella Comini, Edgard Barki, Luciana Trindade de Aguiar
Social businesses present a new paradigm to capitalism, in which private companies, non-profit organizations and civil society create a new type of business with the main objective of solving social problems with financial sustainability and efficiency th... see more
Carlo Borzaga, Sara Depedri, Giulia Galera
Institutional and organizational variety is increasingly characterizing advanced economic systems. While traditional economic theories have focused almost exclusively on profit-maximizing (i.e., for-profit) enterprises and on publicly-owned organizations,... see more
Armindo dos Santos de Sousa Teodósio, Graziella Comini
Inclusive business is a term currently used to explain the organizations that aim to solve social problems with efficiency and financial sustainability by means of market mechanisms. It can be said that inclusive businesses are those targeted at generatin... see more
Tânia Cristina Silva Nunes, Silvia Casa Nova, Edgard Cornacchione, Solange Garcia
The purpose of this study was to determine whether there were significant differences in accounting indicators when comparing sustainable enterprises to other similar companies that are not considered as sustainable. The Corporate Sustainability Index of ... see more
Claudio Travaglini
Theories on social capital and on social entrepreneurship have mainly highlighted the attitude of social capital to generate enterprises and to foster good relations between third sector organizations and the public sector. This paper considers the social... see more
Carla Bronzo, Armindo dos Santos de Sousa Teodósio, Márcia Cristina Gomes da Rocha
This article discusses the construction of tri-sector partnerships in three projects conducted in Brazil in different fields of intervention of public policy (access to water, basic education and performance of boards of rights of children and adolescents... see more
Sérgio Ephim Mindlin
Implementation of social investments through corporate foundations is growing and, therefore, it is important to study their governance aspects better. Governance is conceptualized as a set of control and incentive mechanisms to overcome the so-called age... see more
Edileusa Godói-de-Sousa, Rosa Maria Fischer
This research was based on a study of social enterprises in Brazil, to find out if and how these organizations plan and manage the succession process for their senior positions. The study investigated the subset of the associations dedicated to collective... see more
Patrícia Maria Emerenciano Mendonça, Mário Aquino Alves
This work analyses the professionalization of rural development in the Brazilian Northeastern region and how this created opportunities for entrepreneurship when the professional practices of funding bodies were transformed in accordance with local realit... see more
Genauto Carvalho de França Filho, Jeová Torres Silva Júnior, Ariádne Scalfoni Rigo
The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the possibilities and challenges of Community Development Banks (CDBs) as an innovative method of socioeconomic management of microcredit for poor populations. To this end, we will discuss the case of Banco Palma... see more