Is Social Entrepreneurship the Same Everywhere? What Can We Learn from Other Contexts?
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Session Description
This discussion will demonstrate the richness of social entrepreneurship across different country contexts. A range of different models of social entrepreneurship will be used to show the challenges and opportunities faced in creating new hybrid organisational forms to address social market failures. Contributors will use research from Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
Time & Location
Time:
14:00 - 15:30, Wednesday, March 28, 2007
BST
Speakers
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Speaker
Professor & Executive Dean, Zhejiang University
Wang Zhong-Ming is professor of human resource management, organizational behavior and entrepreneurship at School of Management, Zhejiang University, China. He received his degrees from University of Gothenburg, Sweden (1985) and Hangzhou University (1987), a joint program with University of Gothenburg. He is the Executive Dean of School of Management and both the Director of Center for Human Resources and Strategic Development and the Director of Global Entrepreneurship Research Center, Zhejiang University. He is also the director of the Institute of Social Entrepreneurship at the GERC of Zhejiang University.
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Professor, Center for Leadership and Organisations, IESA
Before coming to USD, Patricia Márquez was a professor at IESA Business School in Caracas, Venezuela. She was the Cisneros Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) at Harvard University and visiting professor at Harvard Business School for the academic year 2005-2006. She has taught graduate and executive education courses on Leadership and Organizational Behavior, Business Initiatives at the Base-of-the-Pyramid, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Social Enterprise. At the undergraduate level she teaches Business & Society. Márquez current research is on the role business can play in alleviating poverty worldwide. She is an active participant of the Social Enterprise Knowledge Network (SEKN) coordinating SEKN’s research project “Market-Based Poverty Reduction in Iberoamerica” (2005-2009).
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Academic Editor, SSIR, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS)
Johanna is a Professor of Organization, Management and Leadership at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and the Hewlett Foundation Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. She currently serves as the academic editor of Stanford Social Innovation Review.
