This paper proposes an entrepreneurial solution to address the continued, unsustainable increases in health care costs that threaten to deny access to health care for millions of Americans. Entrepreneurs will develop systems providing clear financial motivation for consumers to make decisions that minimize health care spending and maximize positive health outcomes. In so doing, health care prov...

This paper examines the development process of sustainable ventures by focusing on three substantive markers, namely the ideas, actions, and exchange relationships articulated and instigated by the entrepreneurs in question. Based on data from 45 sustainability-oriented new ventures, it examines the causal configurations behind the manifestations of these markers using Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Com...

Novel digital technologies or simply unprecedented ways of using known technologies, or sometimes just immense increases in performance of proven technologies form the space needed to drive the digital economy. Here, motivated entrepreneurs with ingenious or sometimes downright strikingly simple ideas will find the soil to thrive on. If then potent and ideally patient risk capital providers com...

Crowdfunding provides innovation in enabling entrepreneurs to contract with consumers before investment. Under demand uncertainty, this improves screening for valuable projects. Entrepreneurial moral hazard threatens this benefit. Studying the trade-off between screening and moral hazard, the paper characterizes optimal mechanisms. Popular all-or-nothing reward-crowdfunding schemes reflect thei...

The arrival of unprecedented numbers of migrant workers in the rural counties of the UK, due to EU enlargement, has created a unique opportunity. Many of these migrants wish to become more than just a source of cheap labour; they aspire to become entrepreneurs. Lincolnshire has already seen a burgeoning of migrant businesses, but these have prospered largely by serving their co-ethnic market. T...

 Creating Sustainable Organizations : preparing social entrepreneurs to serve as directors of Partners Centers in their own countries. Partners' ensures that the independent Centers achieve sustainability within three years by developing diverse streams of Center revenue based on a detailed assessment of their countries' needs for change and conflict management services. The Partners Network o...

the study of those factors facilitating sustainable entrepreneurship in sport according to cultural and ethnic values is important. the aim of this study was to develop sustainable entrepreneurship model based on strauss and corbin’s (1989) systematic model. research method was analytical so qualitative methodology was used. research strategy was grounded theory (gt). participants included 24 s...

This research examines the role of social entrepreneurship in reducing dependency and socioeconomic inequalities amidst uncertainty, openness, global competition. Social-political environmental factors are focus study to understand their influence on development entrepreneurship. Through a survey with questionnaires analysis using Smart PLS method, this aims provide new insights into literature...

This article explores the impact of the new sustainability agenda on the occupational and professional needs of those who have undergone educational and training programmes in the environmental field either at the undergraduate or the post-graduate level or through relevant professional institutions’ continuing professional development programmes. It also describes a one-day workshop for the pr...