ENTREPRENEURSHIP AXIOLOGY IN CIVIL SOCIETY

Making a humanities town: knowledge-infused clusters, civic entrepreneurship and civil society in local innovation systems

Knowledge-infused clusters, involving governmental and university, as well as firm actors are the epitome of contemporary economic development strategy. The role of Southern Oregon University (SOU) in the inception of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) gives rise to a model for education-focused universities to play a significant role in local economic development through creation of cultura...

Reshaping entrepreneurship after a civil war

Catalonia has been one of the most commercialized and industrialized regions of Spain during the twentieth century. Home of the first industrial revolution during the nineteenth century, it started to adopt technologies and organizational structures of the Second Technological Revolution by the end of that period and the first third of the twentieth century. During the period 1890-1935 Catalan ...

Civil society in a divided society: Linking legitimacy and ethnicness of civil society organizations in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Civil society (CS) strengthening is central to peacebuilding policies for divided, post-war societies. However, it has been criticized for creating internationalized organizations without local backing, unable to represent citizens' interests. Based on in-depth empirical research in Bosnia-Herzegovina, this article focuses on the legitimacy of CS organizations (CSOs). It explores why legitimacy...

The Price of Civil Society

Most work in algorithmic game theory assumes that players ignore costs incurred by their fellow players. In this paper, we consider superimposing a social network over a game, where players are concerned with minimizing not only their own costs, but also the costs of their neighbors in the network. We aim to understand how properties of the underlying game are affected by this alteration to the...

Towards a Global Civil Society