Achieving sustainability through Schumpeterian social entrepreneurship: The role of social enterprises

A Rahdari, S Sepasi, M Moradi - Journal of cleaner production, 2016 - Elsevier
One of the major scholarly challenges of social entrepreneurship is the lack of an
established epistemology that partly contributes to and/or stems from a conflict of discourses …

A review of business models for decentralised renewable energy projects

A Piterou, AM Coles - Business Strategy and the Environment, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The diffusion of renewable energy technologies has often been suggested as a means to
reduce the emission of greenhouse gases, but emphasis tends to be placed on large scale …

Beyond green niches? Growth strategies of environmentally-motivated social enterprises

I Vickers, F Lyon - International Small Business Journal, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
The article examines the strategies by which environmentally-motivated social enterprises
seek to scale up their positive impacts, drawing on a theoretical understanding of the role of …

Towards sustainable growth paths for work integration social enterprises in the circular economy

W Van Opstal, L Borms, J Brusselaers, N Bocken… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2024 - Elsevier
An important presumed social impact of the circular economy (CE) is job-creation for
vulnerable groups. This creates opportunities for Work Integration Social Enterprises …

[HTML][HTML] Develo** field-scale, gentle remediation options for nuclear sites contaminated with 137Cs and 90Sr: the role of nature-based solutions

JM Purkis, RP Bardos, J Graham, AB Cundy - Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
The remediation of contaminated land using plants, bacteria and fungi has been widely
examined, especially in laboratory or greenhouse systems where conditions are precisely …

Sustaining trajectories towards Sustainability: Dynamics and diversity in UK communal growing activities

R White, A Stirling - Global environmental change, 2013 - Elsevier
Civil society is a critical arena both for exploring Sustainability itself and for sustaining
trajectories towards it through innovation, experimentation and debate. Innovations can be …

Circularity as alterity? Untangling circuits of value in the social enterprise–led local development of the circular economy

M Lekan, AEG Jonas, P Deutz - Economic geography, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In recent years, the circular economy (CE) paradigm has emerged as a mainstream policy
discourse having the potential to disrupt linear economic development pathways by …

Towards a 'long view': historical perspectives on the scaling and replication of social ventures

RK Blundel, F Lyon - Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Social ventures are now widely regarded as playing an essential role in addressing
persistent and pervasive societal challenges. This insight has prompted an active search for …

[BOK][B] Social and solidarity economy: The world's economy with a social face

S Calvo, A Morales, Y Zikidis - 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
This book aims to provide the reader with an insight into the relevance of a section of the
economy, which is often referred to as the 'social and solidarity economy'(SSE); and …

Determinants of Development of Social Enterprises according to the Theory of Sustainable Development

M Oliński, J Mioduszewski - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Social enterprises today are a worldwide phenomenon that has had a major impact on local
communities and societies. Apart from pursuing their mission within the market, social …