The Policy Strategy of Supporting Social Entrepreneurship Based on a Three-Dimensional Approach

Mapping the outcomes of social entrepreneurship and tourism on host communities: a three-dimensional approach

Journal of Sustainable Tourism ◽

10.1080/09669582.2021.1986515 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-22

Author(s):

Richard S. Aquino ◽

Michael Lück ◽

Heike A. Schänzel

Keyword(s):

Social Entrepreneurship ◽

Three Dimensional ◽

Dimensional Approach

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Shifting perspectives: method, media and the complex image

History and Computing ◽

10.3366/hac.1998.10.1-3.100 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 10 (1-3) ◽

pp. 100-108 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Alicia Colson ◽

Ross Parry

Keyword(s):

Image Processing ◽

Three Dimensional ◽

Geographical Location ◽

Spatial Relationship ◽

Two Dimensional ◽

Dimensional Approach ◽

Complex Image ◽

Cultural Resonance

This article argues that the analysis of a threedimensional image demanded a three-dimensional approach. The authors realise that discussions of images and image processing inveterately conceptualise representation as being flat, static, and finite. The authors recognise the need for a fresh acuteness to three-dimensionality as a meaningful – although problematic – element of visual sources. Two dramatically different examples are used to expose the shortcomings of an ingrained two-dimensional approach and to facilitate a demonstration of how modern (digital) techniques could sanction new historical/anthropological perspectives on subjects that have become all too familiar. Each example could not be more different in their temporal and geographical location, their cultural resonance, and their historiography. However, in both these visual spectacles meaning is polysemic. It is dependent upon the viewer's spatial relationship to the artifice as well as the spirito-intellectual viewer within the community. The authors postulate that the multi- faceted and multi-layered arrangement of meaning in a complex image could be assessed by working beyond the limitations of the two-dimensional methodological paradigm and by using methods and media that accommodated this type of interconnectivity and representation.

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An Exit Strategy for the Definitional Elusiveness: A Three-Dimensional Framework for Social Entrepreneurship

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13020563 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 563

Author(s):

Bing Ran ◽

Scott Weller

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Literature Review ◽

Systematic Literature Review ◽

Social Entrepreneurship ◽

Common Ground ◽

Three Dimensional ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Future Research ◽

Exit Strategy ◽

Conceptual Paper

Despite the growing utility and prevalence of social entrepreneurship, an accepted definition remains elusive and infeasible. Yet, it is imperative that the principles guiding social entrepreneurship are identified so that common ground is established to facilitate future research. On the basis of a systematic literature review, this conceptual paper proposes a theoretical framework outlining social entrepreneurship as a three-dimensional framework as a function of continua of “social” and “business” logics, “beneficial” and “detrimental” social change logics, and “innovation” and “mundane” logics. The framework accommodates the fuzziness and ambiguity associated with social entrepreneurship whilst remaining a workable, identifiable construct. By accounting for the shifting logics practiced by social entrepreneurship that both influence and are influenced by the organizational environment, this framework provides an exit strategy for the definitional elusiveness of social entrepreneurship. The resultant structures and functions of social entrepreneurship are shaped by these constraints as reflected by the fluidity and flexibility endorsed by the framework. Four avenues for future research regarding social entrepreneurship are recommended on the basis of the framework proposed in this article.

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