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2018

Social change

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Social Entrepreneurship In China: Driving Institutional Change, Tonia Warnecke Jun 2018

Social Entrepreneurship In China: Driving Institutional Change, Tonia Warnecke

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In the aftermath of the Great Recession, the concern with exclusionary and unethical business practices has led to the growing popularity of social entrepreneurship, which focuses on the creation of social value, not wealth. In this article, I reflect on social entrepreneurship in China, a unique context given the strong Communist party leadership and the transition to a market economy. To begin, I discuss the legal and political framework for social entrepreneurship in China, followed by an overview of the sector’s characteristics, including age, size, social issues emphasized, leader characteristics, and the role of women. Next, I provide examples of …


Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Changing The Social Order, Daniel Pollack-Pelzner Mar 2018

Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Changing The Social Order, Daniel Pollack-Pelzner

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Daniel Pollack-Pelzner views the first four plays of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2018 season (Karen Zacarías's Destiny of Desire, Kate Hamill's adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, Othello, and Henry V) as expressions of social change.