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Social Entrepreneurship and Wealth-Building Plans: Creative Strategies for Working Class Americans

Curtis, Wayne R.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1368636173

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2013, Ph.D., Antioch University, Leadership and Change.
This study investigated how the elements of social entrepreneurship with wealth-building strategies can advance the creation of wealth and serve as a mechanism for social change. This research takes a modest first step toward demystifying social entrepreneurship, better understanding the phenomenon, and exploring the relevance of wealth-building in social entrepreneurial activity. Specifically, this exploratory study used a multiple case study design to understand how existing social entrepreneurial ventures include wealth-building strategies, such as employee stock ownership plans for working class Americans. The concept of social entrepreneurship is relatively new. There is general agreement that the concept combines a passion for pursuing social mission with business discipline and innovation to achieve sustainable social change, such as wealth-building for employees. There is considerably less knowledge about the connection of social entrepreneurship to wealth building; these two concepts are generally treated as separate and often unrelated. Nonetheless, there are various tools utilized to advance wealth building, such as savings plans that are matched by foundations, debt-reduction counseling services, and entrepreneurial training programs to help start small businesses. This exploratory study may represent the first attempt to combine the discussion of social entrepreneurship and wealth building in the same research discussion. The final cases used in this study represent three distinct business industries: the educational sector, the advocacy industry, and a professional firm specializing in design and build architecture. Each of the three cases has been in existence for a minimum of 25 years, and the founders of the companies are directly or tangentially still involved in day-to-day operations. Two of the cases have an employee stock ownership plan and the remaining one another form of wealth building. This dissertation is accompanied by the author’s MP4 file, titled Author_IntroductionCurtis.mp4. The electronic version of this Dissertation is at Ohiolink ETD Center, www.ohiolink.edu/etd.
Elizabeth L. Holloway, PhD (Committee Chair)
Mitch Kusy, PhD (Committee Member)
Lisa Kreeger, PhD (Committee Member)
Peter Thompson, PhD (Committee Member)
224 p.
Business Costs; Economics; Finance; Labor Economics; Management; Organization Theory; Organizational Behavior; Social Research
business costs; economics, social entrepreneurship; wealth building; labor economics; organizational behavior; organizational theory; finance; financial independence

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  • Curtis, W. R. (2013). Social Entrepreneurship and Wealth-Building Plans: Creative Strategies for Working Class Americans [Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1368636173

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Curtis, Wayne. Social Entrepreneurship and Wealth-Building Plans: Creative Strategies for Working Class Americans. 2013. Antioch University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1368636173.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Curtis, Wayne. "Social Entrepreneurship and Wealth-Building Plans: Creative Strategies for Working Class Americans." Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1368636173

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