Now that we know what social entrepreneurship broadly means, let’s take a look at the defining and differentiating features of social enterprise or social entrepreneurial ventures (SEVs) by comparing it with traditional for-profit corporate entrepreneurial ventures (CEVs) and non-profit organizations…
Social entrepreneurship has gained enormous recognition since Dr. Muhammad Yunus received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. The term has become more common in daily discourse, especially when talking about creating innovative solutions to social problems. At the same time,…
Taylorism has permeated every form of organization and has become the bedrock for most economies since he proposed his theory of scientific management in 1911. At the same time, Taylor was also the most maligned organizational theorist of all time.…
There has been a lot of criticism of Taylor’s scientific management and its assumptions concerning human behavior. Scientific management examined the job function of workers in the factories through an organizational system that incentivized work to resolve the conflict between…
Scientific Management or Taylorism is a theory associated with Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856 –1915), who was considered to be the father of scientific management. His work laid the foundation of modern management theories. Taylor’s work was at its peak during…
Social construction is a theory that belongs to the symbolic interactionist perspective. Peter Burger and Thomas Luckmann presented the idea of social construction in the 1960s. They argued that social realities are constructed and maintained in social interaction. That is,…
A theoretical model, measurement model in research describes and evaluates the quality of measurement to improve its usefulness and accuracy. In quantitative research, we need to measure variables because variables operationalize[1] constructs Measurement is the process of assigning numbers to…
Let’s discuss a simple situation in which we have two variables to understand regression analysis and what it means, and how to interpret the outcomes of regression analysis. In other blog posts, we discuss how to do a simple regression.…
There are many ways of acquiring knowledge. Intuition, authority, experience, and reasoning are all ways to gain knowledge. We acquire knowledge from our experience. People who are experts in the subject matter also provide a great deal of information. Here…
How things are measured in research is very important as it provides information about how to interpret those measurements. ‘Scales of measurement’ is a classification that describes the nature of the information within the values assigned to variables. That is,…
