COMMON GROUND IN PROMOTION OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND HUMAN RIGHTS by H. D. Vinod, Professor of Economics, Fordham University, Bronx, New York, 10458 Prepared for presentation at the Conference on Entrepreneurship and Human Rights, August 1-3, 2005, Fordham University, New York. comments to [email protected] ABSTRACT A failure in providing human rights is generally due to at least four factors: ba...

Entrepreneurship education has emphasis on economics and covers business disciplines like management, marketing and finance with links to psychology, sociology, and teacher education as well as business education. It prepares and builds persons to be responsible and enterprising individuals capable of deep entrepreneurial thinking that contribute to economic and sustainable development. It focu...

To promote entrepreneurship within a corporate environment, firms must release their grip on efficiency and instead embrace the failures which enable them to learn new ideas and methods. They must empower the innovative leaders with access to senior management, and equip them with the support of cross-functional teams. These mechanisms and structures form a sustainable competitive advantage tha...

II. Global priorities for national action plans on employment ..................................................... 2 Promoting decent work as a productive factor ........................................................................ 2 Knowledge creation and dissemination................................................................................... 3 Promoting entrepreneurship and privat...

with respect to many problems in rural areas such as poverty, inequality, migration, vulnerability and unemployment, the rural entrepreneurship is of great importance. doubtless entrepreneurship can increase the level of employment and income and play an important role for sustainable development in rural areas. in this article, through a behavioral approach and based on a procedural model indi...

Purpose – This paper analyses the sustainability-oriented transformation of industries from the lens of sustainable entrepreneurship. We investigate the co-evolution between pioneers introducing radically more sustainable offerings and (mostly large) market leaders with their responses. While sustainability pioneers introduce new products in niche markets, incumbents advance them into the mass ...

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