scholarly journals Nonprofit Organization Develop Social Enterprise Business Model in Taiwan: A Case Study of Taiwan’s Large-Scale NPO

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 169
Author(s):  
Meng-Chueh Hsu ◽  
Shang-Yung Yen
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Nonprofit Organization ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Organization Transformation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Enterprise Model ◽  
The Difference

Nonprofit organizations take important roles and functions in our modern society. However, because of the fierce competitions in market and the rapid social changes, nonprofit organizations are facing the same management issues with profit making organizations, such as financial difficulties or lack of resources. In this qualitative research, in order to discuss the issue about nonprofit organization transformation from the prospective of nonprofit management and organization transformation, we interviewed a large nonprofit organization in Taiwan, analyzed the results and provided case studies. We also considered about the social enterprise model to explain the concept between nonprofit organization and social enterprise. In our conclusion, we found that when nonprofit organization transformation took a place and changed the service model into the social enterprise model, the reasons are not limited to the management needs but included to provide the more appropriate services and working approaches. Therefore, the difference between the nonprofit organization and the social enterprise is clarified through this research.

ОСНОВНЫЕ ЗАДАЧИ И ВИДЫ МОДЕРАЦИИ КАК ПРИКЛАДНОГО СПОСОБА ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ И ТЕХНОЛОГИИ УРЕГУЛИРОВАНИЯ КОНФЛИКТА

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
А. Ф. Нагайчук ◽  
А. Ахмедов ◽  
Н. В. Филатова
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Research Technology ◽  
Political Interaction ◽  
The Social ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Conflict Research

Moderation is considered in this article as a complex of social and political approaches. This article highlights the variety of aspects of moderation: essential, research, regulatory, and resolving. The actualization of different types of moderation relates to the problem of unending emergency and reproduction of the dangerous conflict forms, despite the existence of the diversity of modern regulating socio-political conflict technologies. Such dominant conflict management applied technologies as arbitration, negotiation, mediation, and facilitation are often inefficient in the regulation of complex and large-scale conflicts in the social-political sphere, because of the absence of deep and timely problem research, furthermore, the absence of technologies scientific development and conceptualization, useful for such regulation. This problem is particularly acute in the following situations: conflict active faze and escalation, non-availability of conciliation, complex and multidimensional conflict subject, global transformation of modern society values, constant mutation of various confrontation forms. Thus, the article aim is to analyze and find out the moderation potentiality in conflict research and regulation, along with attention to moderator and moderation stylistics. Moderation today is both a pedagogical, managerial, and research technology, able to solve not only the entire range of applied problems of modern conflict science, but to work with the conflict through the whole technology complex. The moderation can become the most optimal way to study and regulate various types and forms of conflict in socio-political interaction, because of its long practical experience in conducting research in the form of focus groups in different areas and situations, on a par of its serious scientific and applied social-political potentiality.

Psychoterapeutki i psychoterapeuci wobec konsekwencji pandemii COVID-19. Analiza z perspektywy teorii traumy zmian społecznych

2021 ◽  
pp. 223-246
Author(s):  
Monika Frąckowiak-Sochańska ◽  
◽  
Marcin Hermanowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Social Stress ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Mental Condition ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Helping Professions ◽  
Global Context ◽  
The Social ◽  
Psychotherapy Clients ◽  
Late Modern

This paper aims to analyze the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the individuals’ mental conditions, focusing on psychotherapy clients. The sources of knowledge about mental condition changes analyzed here are psychotherapists’ reports. One of the research purposes was to examine to what extent the problems resulting from the pandemic are visible from the perspective of psychotherapists’ offices. Moreover, the authors explore the changes in psychotherapists’ functioning and the adjustments of psychotherapy understood as one of the expert systems in a late modern society affected by social changes’ trauma. Adopting the theory of social trauma (Alexander 2004, Sztompka 2002) as the frame of analysis enables examining the relation between personal but repeatable experiences of emotional crises and their global context determined by the pandemic. This paper’s empirical foundation is the survey research on a sample of 384 Polish psychotherapists carried out between August 10 and September 30 as a part of the project „Psychotherapeutic work in the pandemic time” supported by the Faculty of Sociology at Adam Mickiewicz University. The research results enable registering the increased intensity of problems resulting from social stress among people searching for psychotherapeutic support and those working in the helping professions. Simultaneously, changes in the functioning of the whole expert system of psychotherapy may be interpreted as the attempts to compensate for the social order destabilization that results in the growing stress and overburden of individuals.

Business tools in nonprofit organizations: a performative story

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 667-682 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cécile Petitgand
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Third Sector Organizations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Enterprise Model ◽  
The Individual

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of introducing business tools into nonprofit organizations (NPOs). Exploring the case of an NPO trying to embrace the social enterprise model, this study aims to contribute to a better understanding of the managerialization process affecting third sector organizations. Design/methodology/approach Relying on an in-depth ethnographic immersion conducted at a Brazilian NPO, this paper adopts a performativity lens to analyze the appropriation process of a traditional business tool, the Individual Development Plan (IDP), at the organization. Findings The story of the IDP’s appropriation reveals how business tools act as market devices to actualize economic behaviors and representations among NPOs’ beneficiaries. Reinforcing the control of managers upon their constituencies, business tools can thus create an unequal balance of power within NPOs. Practical implications Admittedly, this paper relies on one single case study, which imposes strong limitations to generalize empirical findings. Nonetheless, this analysis calls for more caution in the promotion of business tools for the development of social entrepreneurship in third sector organizations. Originality/value Rather than debating the accuracy and efficiency of business tools in NPOs, this paper adopts a performative approach to understand how artifacts change the nature of relationships between managers and beneficiaries within social ventures. Rejecting a normative stance, this paper proposes a micro-level analysis of managerialization, focusing on an organization from an emerging country, Brazil, which is rarely at the core of social entrepreneurship studies.

scholarly journals From Mediation to Mediatisation: the Migration Issue

Monitor ISH ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-94
Author(s):  
Karmen Medica
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Migrant Communities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Media

The interaction between media and migrants is an integral part of the everyday social context at all levels of modern society, institutional and non-institutional alike. Such dynamism promotes a wide range of social changes and processes. These processes have recently come to be marked by a transition from mediation to mediatisation. While mediation is simply a transfer or transmission of communication by the media, mediatisation involves the active impact of the media on communication in the social and cultural contexts within which this impact can be understood and interpreted. Mediatisation refers to the broader (meta)changes of the media and forms of communication, which in turn cause changes in daily life and in personal and collective identities, as well as in social relations and in society as a whole. Mediatisation is increasingly changing the relationship between the media and society. In the context of the EU, the reporting on migrants tends to be depersonalised. This encourages generalisation, which in its turn reinforces stereotypes and fails to convey a realistic picture of the situation. Another problem identified is the lack of distinctly profiled individuals who could function as representatives of the migrant communities. Moreover, both media and journalists often neglect information coming from direct immigrant sources. The result of this vicious circle is confirmed by the general opinion that migrants typically appear only in cases diverging from the standard, with a strong emphasis on sensational presentation. The integration of migrant communities largely depends on how much they are recognised, identified and found attractive at least by a part of the public. Changes in the form and means of communication further change the forms of grouping and forms of social power. The changes in dealing with migrant issues become evident at three levels: in the media, in politics, and in everyday life.

scholarly journals ІНКЛЮЗИВНЕ СУСПІЛЬСТВО: СОЦІАЛЬНО-ПОЛІТИЧНІ ВИМІРИ

2019 ◽  
pp. 189-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
О. М. Роговський
Keyword(s):  
Hierarchical Structures ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The Social ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Mutual Conversion ◽  
Inclusive Society ◽  
Main Attribute ◽  
Significant Attention ◽  
Selective Process

The article considers the forms of functioning and the peculiarities of the inclusive society. The details of the processes of inclusion-exclusion that together fulfill the selection in all the spheres of society are considered. The significant attention is given to the revealing of the specificity of selective process in the social and cultural and political spheres of society, that are related in a compensatory way between themselves: the predominance of the exclusion in one sphere is compensated by the inclusivity of the second sphere. There was identified a significant difference in the way of the selection in traditional, totalitarian and democratic societies. In the first one it is homogeneous and linear, in the second - open and heterogeneous with a possibility of goal and value changing, including (self)denial and the risks of instability. With P. Sorokin's work as an example the unity of the processes of inclusivity growth and the democratization of the education and of the society in general is shown. The main differences between the processes of inclusion, integration and exclusion, differentiation and the centered and centrifugal flows in society are shown. It is important that the processes of differentiation and integration are multiple and include both inclusive and exclusive aspects, that is a double effect and consequences. That is why the modern society is developing basing itself not only on the differentiation (according to N. Luhmann), but on the mobile balance and the regulation of the contradictory processes including differentiation-integration, ecxlusion-inclusion by means of «modalization» of the difference between them and the possibility of their mutual conversion and combination. The inclusivity facilitates bringing together, coordination of different subjects' activity and the integrative processes in general. These last ones are necessary for the solving of global problem of nowadays. The processes of selection and inclusion taking place in different spheres facilitate the transforming of the power and traditionally hierarchical structures into the democratic ones. The main forms of selection are shown: patterns, functionality, education, complexity. It is identified that the inclusivity is the main attribute and form of development of a democratic society.

From nonprofit organization to social enterprise

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 1287-1306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunlei Wang ◽  
Zhaowen Duan ◽  
Larry Yu
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Structuration Theory ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Social Entrepreneur ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social

Purpose This study aims to examine the development of a social enterprise in China’s tourism industry by analyzing the coevolution of the social entrepreneur and the social system. Design/methodology/approach Purposeful sampling was used to select 1kg.org as a single-case study. Semistructured in-depth interviews of three informants were conducted to obtain organization-specific insights. Interview data were analyzed following structuration theory. Secondary data and interviews of other social entrepreneurs and experts were used to support the findings. Research findings were validated using triangulation and member-checking methods. Findings Because of the institutional environment, most nonprofit organizations in China do not have resource independence and clear legal identity. Meanwhile, social enterprise has emerged as a new organizational form with the objective of creating social value through profitable business operations. Practical implications Social enterprise is still in its infancy in China, particularly in the tourism field. This study reveals an innovative and sustainable model for nonprofit organizations in China facing institutional challenges and competitive funding environments. It provides recommendations to policymakers for improving mechanisms to increase social services through social enterprises. Originality/value This study proposes a new conceptual framework for studying social entrepreneurship by adapting structuration theory to address contemporary social and business issues.

Social enterprise in Israel: the swinging pendulum between collectivism and individualism

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inbal Abbou ◽  
Benjamin Gidron ◽  
Noga Buber-Ben David ◽  
Yael Greenberg ◽  
Yisca Monnickendam-Givon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Governance Structure ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
Enterprise Models ◽  
International Comparative

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is twofold: to outline the historical and current contextual forces behind the development of the social enterprise movement in Israel and to analyze the different models identified by the research team along which social enterprises are formed at present. Design/methodology/approachThe study was part of the International Comparative Social Enterprise Models (ICSEM) Project and the methodology used in the analysis of the models was the one used in the international comparison. It entailed the analysis of three to five case studies within each model, which were analyzed along three major dimensions: the economic basis of the enterprise, its social objectives and its governance structure. FindingsThe findings suggest that social enterprises in Israel develop along four major models, all within existing different incorporation systems; these are nonprofit organizations, privately owned business enterprises, cooperatives and public-sector frameworks. On the basis of the case studies analyzed, it was possible to identify specific characteristic configurations of the three dimensions (economic/social/governance) that were at the basis of the model and guided it. Originality/valueThe study is the first of its kind to present a broad picture of the developing social enterprise scene in Israel and as such can clearly inform and guide both researchers and policymakers in their future work on the development of the social enterprise phenomenon in the country.

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