James E. Austin

Harvard University | Harvard · Harvard Business School

Purpose: Provide insights on how social entrepreneurship (SE) knowledge can be more effectively generated by universities through the entrepreneurial creation and effective management of a knowledge network centered on international collaborative research; illuminate how one such network has enabled Latin American researchers to advance the knowled...

Purpose This paper aims to reflect on 25 years of the social enterprise initiative at the Harvard Business School, examining the processes and thinking involved at key stages of this pioneering Initiative’s implementation and institutionalization. Design/methodology/approach The authors adopt an auto-ethnographical approach, reflexively consider...

This chapter focuses on the cocreation generation of value by partnering between nonprofits and businesses, a phenomenon that has exhibited explosive growth since the 1990s. Many of the conceptual and analytical aspects of the presented nonprofit&;#x02010;business collaboration framework are applicable to other types of cross&;#x02010;sector collab...

Based on decades of experience with case method teaching and a systematic process of peer consultation and material assessments, the note identifies the salient characteristics of outstanding case studies and their accompanying teaching notes. Document available through Harvard Business School Publishing.

Based on decades of teaching experience, extensive peer consultations, and systematic analysis of exemplary materials, this note identifies the salient characteristics of outstanding case studies and their accompanying teaching notes. Document is available via Harvard Business School Publishing.

The book reveals how collaboration between businesses and nonprofit organizations can effectively co-create significant economic and social value, including environmental value, for society, organizations, and individuals. It offers an analysis of the state of knowledge and practice through a focused review and analysis of theoretical and empirical...

Provides breakthough thinking about how to conceptualize and realize collaborative value in nonprofit - business partnerships. Rooted in an exhaustive review of the literature the book presents the Collaboration Value Creation framework and illustrates through over a hundred examples of cross-sector collaborations how nonprofit and business practit...

Entrepreneurship has been the engine propelling much of the growth of the business sector as well as a driving force behind the rapid expansion of the social sector. This article offers a comparative analysis of commercial and social entrepreneurship using a prevailing analytical model from commercial entrepreneurship. The analysis highlights key s...

In this second of a two-part focused review of the nonprofit business and corporate social responsibility (CSR) literature, the authors present the third and fourth components of the collaborative value creation (CVC) framework: the partnering processes that unpack the value creation dynamics and the collaboration outcomes that examine the benefits...

This focused review of the nonprofit-business collaboration and related corporate social responsibility literature identifies problematic aspects of the treatment of value creation and, therefore, develops a conceptual and analytical framework to address them and the following research question: How can collaboration between nonprofits and business...

http://perfectaweb.com/ojs244/index.php?journal=revista&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=550 ABSTRACT In the 1960s, businesses and nonprofits trundled along on separate tracks, having little to do with each other. Over the past three decades, however, the paths of business and nonprofits have not just crossed; they have converged. Nonprofits and bus...

The German version of this article can be found at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1490345 Corporate Social Entrepreneurship (CSE) is a process aimed at enabling business to develop more advanced and powerful forms of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). CSE emerges from and builds on three other conceptual frameworks: entrepreneurship, corporate entre...

Corporate Social Entrepreneurship befähigt Unternehmen, wirksamere Formen von Corporate Social Responsibility zu entwickeln. Das nützt sowohl der Gesellschaft als auch dem Unternehmen

En los años sesenta, las empresas y las organizaciones de la sociedad civil (OSC) recorrían sendas separadas, y tenían poco que ver entre sí. En las últimas tres décadas, sin embargo, los senderos de ambos mundos no sólo se han cruzado sino que han convergido. Empresas y OSC convergen en la naturaleza del valor que crean, en los grupos de interés q...

What happens when small iconic socially oriented businesses are acquired by large corporations? Such mergers create significant opportunities for creating both business value and substantially expanded social value, but they also pose unusually difficult challenges because the merging entities are often strikingly different in philosophy and operat...

The traditional philanthropy practiced by your company is good. But you may be squandering an opportunity to create true strategic value, both social and financial, through your relationships with civil society.

In the 1960s, businesses and nonprofits trundled along on separate tracks, having little to do with each other. Over the past three decades, however, the paths of business and nonprofits have not just crossed; they have converged. Nonprofits and businesses are converging in the nature of the value they create, the stakeholders they manage, the stru...

Social Entrepreneurship' is a term that has come to be applied to the activities of grass-roots activists, NGOs, policy makers, international institutions, and corporations, amongst others, which address a range of social issues in innovative and creative ways. Themed around the emerging agendas for developing new, sustainable models of social sect...

Social entrepreneurship (SE) is an emerging field of academic inquiry. As has always been the case for newcomers, they must generate important new knowledge and advance the frontiers of understanding if they are to gain intellectual legitimacy. Thus, vigorous, rigorous, and ambitious research is a key driver to the development of this field.

The core purpose of social enterprise is to create value for the betterment of society. This aim lies at the center of the framework and is the end toward which all other elements in the framework must contribute. Greater alignment of these elements with the central purpose produces higher organizational coherence which contributes to superior perf...

En América Latina y el Caribe está aún muy arraigada la idea de que las empresas deben dedicarse exclusivamente a las actividades económicas, mientras que el Estado, las organizaciones no gubernamentales o la Iglesia son las instituciones encargadas del bienestar social. Este libro presenta otro enfoque, con diferentes casos de colaboración entre e...

III Inter American Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility Proceedings,Santiago Chile.

The traditional philanthropy practiced by your company is good. But you may be squandering an opportunity to create true strategic value, both social and financial, through your relationships with civil society.

How do nonprofits figure into the lives of business leaders? And how do business leaders figure into the lives of nonprofits? The intersections exist but there is relatively little systematic research to document empirically this piece of the nonprofit picture. This article aims to help fill that void by presenting research results regarding the wh...

Collaborations between businesses and nonprofit organizations are becoming more prevalent, important, and complicated. Marketing plays an increasingly significant role in these cross-sector relationships. This article will first set forth a framework for understanding alliances between companies and nonprofits. It will then examime how such cross-s...

This study undertakes an analytical comparisonbetween social and commercial entrepreneurship using a model from commercialentrepreneurship. It is an exploratory analysis of the extent that elementsapplicable to commercial entrepreneurship are transferable to socialentrepreneurship. Conversely, it explores the ways insights from social entrepreneurs...

This article strives to deepen our understanding of the nature and role of busi-nesses and Business Leadership Coalitions (BLCs) in public-private partnerships (PPPs) and in the formation and operation of urban governance regimes in major American cities. Our research reveals a greater heterogeneity and diversity of engagement and partnering types...

Collaboration between nonprofits and businesses is increasing and becoming more strategically important. Based on 15 case studies, this article presents a cross-sector collaboration framework consisting of four components. First, the collaboration continuum provides a conceptual framework for categorizing different types of partnerships and studyin...

Collaboration between nonprofits and businesses is increasing and becoming more strategically important. Based on 15 case studies, this article presents a cross-sector collaboration framework consisting of four components. First, the collaboration continuum provides a conceptual framework for categorizing different types of partnerships and studyin...

The rescue and revitalization of Cleveland provides a benchmarking opportunity for how business leaders can help meet the challenge of renewing our cities. This article addresses four questions: What is the role of business leaders in urban revitalization? How can business leaders organize themselves effectively for collective action? What are the...

The World Leadership Survey, which began a worldwide dialogue on a set of important issues facing managers in the 1990s, continues with commentaries from four recognized experts, each of whom addresses the survey results from a different perspective. Kenichi Ohmae, chairman of McKinsey and Company in Tokyo, addresses "The Perils of Protectionism."...

The international community, in collaboration with national governments, is making strides towards saving children's lives. These critically important survival interventions rescue children; they constitute essential but insufficient action. The major challenge of the future is to move beyond survival. Poor children saved from the clutches of death...

Management and managers play a critical role in revolutionary societies. During revolutions the increased demand for and decreased supply of managers create a costly management gap. Revolutionary governments face significant problems in mobilizing and developing managers for state-owned enterprises and in motivating private sector managers who face...

The Nicaraguan state carried out a structural transformation of the food system within the context of a mixed economy. It simultaneously combined direct ownership with many forms of market regulation and supported a mass movement of peasant cooperatives. The Nicaraguan food system combined economic decision-making by the state, large and small indi...

At the end of 1982, Mexico's innovative food policy, known as the Mexican Food System (SAM), was abandoned by the new administration. At its inception in March 1980, it had generated interest (both praise and criticism) from outside Mexico - after all the challenges and choices facing SAM were not unique to Mexico. SAM consisted of a combination of...

The Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) provides food supplements and nutrition counseling to pregnant and lactating women and children up to age 5 who are at nutritional risk. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of the program on the growth of infants. Retrospective longitudinal anthropometric...

This article assesses the effectiveness of nutrition programmes and policies since the World Food Conference. The authors perceive several distinct programme approaches: the technological fix; integrated nutrition planning; nutrition in the health sector; nutrition in the agricultural sector; nutrition intervention analysis; and food policy analysi...

Political forces in developing countries permeate and significantly shape the business environment. Yet the political information used by managers is usually general, subjective and superficial. Managers lack an appropriate analytical framework for systematically examining political factors and forecasting their impact on the firm. This paper attem...

This study examined the impact of pregnant women's participation in a WIC supplemental feeding program on the birth weight of infants. Data on 1,328 WIC and non-WIC participants were collected from a retrospective review of medical and/or nutrition records. Participation of women in WIC was associated with a positive and significant increment in bi...

One of the most fundamental questions emerging from recent scrutiny of US foreign assistance efforts is whether the PL 480 food aid programme is making a significant, positive contribution to the economic and social development of poorer nations. Despite the validity of certain past criticisms of food aid as a development vehicle, it is the premise...

The authors discuss the recent controversial promulgation of a set of national dietary goals for the USA, in the context of their effect on the food industry. A report is described which surveyed reactions to the goals. Several suggestions are made for food industry, consumer and government responses to changes in the food policy environment in the...

PIP Program evaluation in the area of nutrition has been both insufficient and deficient. A 1976 to 1977 survey of nutrition programs throughout the world being conducted as part of a Harvard Institute for International Development Project revealed that of 140 programs surveyed only 23% reported having analyzed nutritional status data and only 15%...

The roots of malnutrition are found in economics, education, agriculture, and health. This multiple etiology requires that approaches to the problem engage many different institutions. These organizations can be viewed as constituting an International Nutrition Institutional Network. The functions of this system are collection and dissemination of...

Analyzing the results of the World Food Council's Third Ministerial Session (Manila. 1977), in terms of both substance and procedure, the authors discuss the Council's current role in international food policy making. It appears that the final communique from Manila, as well as the improved policy making processes begun there, point to a strengthen...

In operational terms, effective nutrition services can increase health worker credibility with mothers and increase their receptivity toward family planning. Among other synergistic program relationships, high IUD removal rates are related to nutritional anemia in women which could be corrected by nutritional supplementation. Finally, operating eff...

Lurking behind this conference’s all encompassing theme of Food, Society, and Man is the stark reality of over 500 million human beings suffering from the erosive effects of malnutrition. It is our collective responsibility as concerned social scientists to explore means of alleviating the malnutrition problem. However, before examining solutions o...

Inadequate management is becoming an increasingly severe constraint on the successful expansion of family planning programs throughout the world. The management problem stems from a shortage of professionally trained administrators in a rapidly expanding field. A prerequisite to effective training is a firm grasp of the various dimensions of the ma...

Los Anales de la II Conferencia Interamericana sobre RSE celebrada en México.

Proceedings from the II Inter-American Conference on CSR, celebrated in Mexico

Traducción de: The Collaboration Challenge. How Nonprofits and Businesses Succeed Through Strategic Alliances

Traducción de: Social Partnering in Latin America

Austin considera que, en las décadas de los setenta y los ochenta, una empresa podía funcionar aislada del mundo. Pero las cosas han cambiado: los avances en el transporte y las telecomunicaciones han hecho que la interdependencia sea mucho mayor hoy en día y que el mundo gerencial sea mucho más exigente. «La creciente importancia de la dimensión s...

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