REC101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Social Venture, Goodwill Industries, Collective Identity

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A person with qualities and behaviours we associate with a business entrepreneur but who operates in the community and is more concerned about caring and helping than with making money. Frustration and disillusionment with the politcial system"s ability to change things. Rise of the well-being agenda: more people seeking meaning in their work lives; and increasing self-employment. Charities becoming more business-like and the growth of corporate social responsibility in business, bringing the worlds closer together. Hugely networked and mobile society, on and off line. Wide range of options (organization, governance, income, support) to choose from to help turn ideas into reality. It implies either an explicit motive or an explicit intent to improve someone else"s welfare. It implies action: altruistic behaviour can possibly diminish an individual"s own well-being while simultaneously enhancing someone else"s. Side payments made to those who participate in the action. Material incentives tangible rewards for volunteer efforts and listing volunteer experiences as job experience.

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