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Social sustainability is about identifying and managing business impacts, both positive and negative, on people. The quality of a company’s relationships and engagement with its stakeholders is critical. Directly or indirectly, companies affect what happens to employees, workers in the value chain, customers and local communities, and it is ...
- Labour and Decent Work
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- Gender Equality
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- Poverty
While the global poverty rate has been cut in half since...
- Anti-Racist Action for Business
The UN Global Compact is urging business leaders to speak up...
- Supply Chain Sustainability
UN Global Compact Launches CMO Think Lab to Drive...
- Sustainable Finance
The UN Global Compact welcomes the outcomes from the ILO...
- Sustainable Development
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- Environment
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- Labour and Decent Work
2.1 Definition of social entrepreneurship Formulating a unified definition for social entrepreneurship is a challenge for researchers: multiple definitions exist which vary in their scope, depth and among the entities and actors that they include in the realm of a social enterprise. The main difficulty revolves around the
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a Framework for action: social enterprise & impact investing June 2012 about the United nations global compact. the United nations Global compact is a call to companies everywhere to voluntarily align their operations and strategies with ten universally- accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption ...
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The product of a partnership between the United Nations Global Compact, the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative, and The Rockefeller Foundation, a U.S.-based global philanthropic organization, the Framework is predicated on the increasing recognition that the growth of the social enterprise sector not only holds the promise of ...
social entrepreneurship are those that tailor support in terms of education, finance, technical support and networking and market building. The Report offers a series of recommendations to
Social entrepreneurs are one special breed of leader, and they should be recognized as such. This definition preserves their distinctive status and assures that social entrepreneurship is not treated lightly. We need social entrepreneurs to help us find new avenues toward social improvement as we enter the next century. CASE, 2001. By J ...
Similarly, successful entrepreneurs appear to be higher in social competence—the ability to interact effectively with others (e.g., they are better at social perception and adapting to new social situations). These results suggest that the principles and findings of psychology can be invaluable to researchers in the field of entrepreneurship ...
