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Defining Regenerative Business Through The Context Of Place: A Case Study West Michigan Businesses, Aislinn Teachout, Aislinn Teachout Aug 2022

Defining Regenerative Business Through The Context Of Place: A Case Study West Michigan Businesses, Aislinn Teachout, Aislinn Teachout

Masters Theses

This study builds upon existing scholarly literature on regenerative design and regenerative sustainability by relating the framework to existing West Michigan businesses and their place-specific practices. Applying concepts from those more developed fields to business sustainability, this paper contributes to the still emerging field of regenerative business by proposing a comprehensive definition of regenerative business. The definition is then applied to three businesses in a case study format to highlight regenerative business practices. While none of the businesses highlighted claim to be regenerative, all have examples of practices that demonstrate regenerative action and enhance the West Michigan community.

By defining …


Sistematización De Experiencias En Organizaciones Solidarias: Caso Rutas Turísticas Rurales Del Roble En Charalá Y Finca Veleña En Vélez, Departamento De Santander, Colombia, Daniel Alejandro Malagón Chona, Juan Pablo Páez Mojica Jan 2020

Sistematización De Experiencias En Organizaciones Solidarias: Caso Rutas Turísticas Rurales Del Roble En Charalá Y Finca Veleña En Vélez, Departamento De Santander, Colombia, Daniel Alejandro Malagón Chona, Juan Pablo Páez Mojica

Administración de Empresas

El presente trabajo es el resultado de una investigación de tipo cualitativo - descriptivo que tenía como objetivo sistematizar las experiencias de las organizaciones solidarias en el desarrollo de las rutas rurales turísticas del Roble en Charalá y Finca Veleña en Vélez, departamento de Santander, Colombia. Utilizó las entrevistas semiestructuradas como herramientas metodológicas. Obtuvo como resultado la identificación de algunas de las principales causales que originaron la creación de organizaciones solidarias para el desarrollo de las rutas rurales turísticas del Roble y Finca Veleña en el departamento de Santander, Colombia. Del mismo modo, se pudieron describir las prácticas de gestión …


Propuesta De Innovación Social Para Los Invernaderos En San Antonio Del Tequendama, Cundinamarca, Liz Katterin Malaver Duarte Jan 2020

Propuesta De Innovación Social Para Los Invernaderos En San Antonio Del Tequendama, Cundinamarca, Liz Katterin Malaver Duarte

Finanzas y Comercio Internacional

En la presente monografía se evidencia como los invernaderos de San Antonio del Tequendama, ubicados en Cundinamarca, tienen una de las mayores producciones de plantas ornamentales a nivel nacional, en especial de la orquídea Phalaenopsis. Esta es una región que ha tomado mucha fuerza por el clima, la tierra y la producción en general. Sin embargo, aun sus procesos son muy rudimentarios y no hay articulación por parte de los entes gubernamentales hacia los viveristas. Presentan tres grandes problemáticas en cuanto al desarrollo en cada etapa del proceso productivo, conocimiento de herramientas tecnológicas y acceso a los diferentes programas y …


Can Applying A Gender Lens To Social Innovation Promote Women's Rights And Gender Equality?, Sarah Saska-Crozier Jul 2016

Can Applying A Gender Lens To Social Innovation Promote Women's Rights And Gender Equality?, Sarah Saska-Crozier

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Social innovation is not new, but it is increasingly being called on to provide solutions to some of the world’s most pressing social and economic problems. Despite awareness about its importance, research in the field of social innovation is often vague, and there are competing definitions and understandings of the concept. There is also very little research that attempts to connect the field of social innovation with the fields of gender studies, women’s studies, feminist research, or men and masculinity studies. This dissertation applies a gender lens to the concept of social innovation. In doing so, it aims to develop …


Cross-Sector Models Of Collaboration For Social Innovation, Marlene J. Le Ber Aug 2010

Cross-Sector Models Of Collaboration For Social Innovation, Marlene J. Le Ber

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

This dissertation consists of three studies that collectively examine the genesis and dynamics of collaborative cross-sector partnerships between nonprofit and for-profit organizations. The overarching question that frames the papers is how cross-sector partnerships organize across sectoral interfaces to advance social innovation. This thesis makes three contributions: 1) the standpoint of the beneficiaries needs to be explicitly discussed when exploring social innovation in cross-sector partnerships; 2) neither success nor failure are absolute but rather cross-sector partners deliberately and iteratively adjust their roles to sustain momentum towards success or rebound from temporary failure in pursuit of social innovation; and 3) despite largely …