media type: Report
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Case studies
The Social Enterprise UK website features an article webpage with case studies on businesses addressing societal issues, such as employment for refugees and IT roles for neurodiverse individuals
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Building brand meaning in social entrepreneurship organizations: the social impact brand model
The article presents a social impact brand model (SIBM) for Social Entrepreneurship Organizations (SEOs), highlighting the importance of a dual-brand core focusing on impact mission orientation and entrepreneurial orientation. It emphasizes internal branding activities, the founder’s personal brand, and collaboration with brand co-creators to create authentic, stable brand meanings that align with stakeholders’ expectations.
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Public Marketing: A Strategic Tool for Social Economy
The document examines public marketing as a strategic tool for social economies, detailing how it differs from classic marketing in addressing social goals with a focus on the marketing mix’s adaptation to social enterprise needs. It highlights public marketing’s role in promoting goods, services, and social change, underscoring its importance for social economy structures aiming…
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Social Entrepreneurship Impact in Ten EU Countries with Supportive Regulations
The study explores the impact of social entrepreneurship (SE) on sustainability and innovation in ten EU countries, showing positive relations with social and economic factors and highlighting SE’s role in promoting sustainable welfare and innovation, offering insights for policy design to support SE.
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From servitization to digital servitization: How digitalization transforms companies’ transition towards services
This paper explores digital servitization (DS), a concept arising from the convergence of servitization and digitalization in product companies, transforming their business models towards service-oriented operations with digital technologies. Through analyzing 180 articles from 2005 to 2020, the study offers a unified definition of DS, examines its impact across nine dimensions of servitization, and proposes…
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The environmental effects of the “twin” green and digital transition in European regions
The study investigates the environmental effects of the “twin” green and digital transition in European regions, focusing on their impact on industrial GHG emissions. Analyzing data from 2007-2016, it finds that while environmental technologies decrease emissions, digital technologies can increase them, with impacts varying across regions based on their technology endowments. The research underscores the…
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D I G I TA L N EW S P RO J E C T 2018
This report explores how European local and regional newspapers are navigating the shift to a digital-first approach amidst declining print revenues and readership. It examines the strategies of various newspapers, focusing on digital editorial and commercial efforts, creating digital-first newsrooms, adapting to audience needs, and diversifying business models. The study, based on interviews with newspaper…
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Sustainability and the Digital Transition: A Literature Review
This literature review examines the contributions of digital transition to sustainability, highlighting how digital technologies like AI, big data analytics, and IoT can drive environmental, economic, and social sustainability. It discusses the application of these technologies in areas such as sustainable urban development, waste management, and sustainable production. The study underscores the need for multidimensional…
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Translocal empowerment in transformative social innovation networks
The paper explores how translocal networks empower individuals in social innovation, analyzing five networks (FEBEA, DESIS, Global Ecovillage Network, Impact Hub, Slow Food) through psychological dimensions of empowerment. It discusses the role of these networks in fostering relatedness, autonomy, competence, impact, meaning, and resilience, highlighting the complex interplay of local and global dynamics in achieving…
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Why are social enterprises good candidates for social innovation? Looking for personal and institutional drivers of innovation
This article examines the connection between social innovation and social enterprise, highlighting the lack of comprehensive analysis between these two areas. It offers a historical overview of both concepts, their foundational ideas, and the process by which social innovation occurs within social enterprises. The study suggests that social innovation is a primary outcome in social…