My main area of research interest is social entrepreneurship. In an attempt to keep the readers and myself updated with the field, I am creating an annotated bibliography on social entrepreneurship as a resource that can serve as a starting…
Wei-Skilleren, J. C., Austin, J. E., Leonard, H. B., & Stevenson, H. H. (2007). Entrepreneurship in the social sector. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. Overview: Entrepreneurship in the social sector Social Entrepreneurship is a rapidly emerging field that has extended the…
Reliability, fundamentally, concerns the extent to which a measure, an experiment, or test yields the same results on repeated trials. However, the measurement of any phenomenon invariably contains a certain amount of chance error. Even repeated measures of the same…
Reliability coefficients measure the consistency of a measurement scale. That is, they answer the question — how consistent is the scale or instrument when multiple observations are taken when the true score is unchanged? The reliability coefficient quantifies the precision…
Now that we have talked about probability sampling, let’s focus on non-probability sampling in research. We saw that we need a sampling frame whenever we want to go for a probability sampling technique. But many times, a sampling frame is…
Although there are millions of shoppers during the holiday season, only a few thousand of them are actually sampled to determine their shopping habits. An obvious question is why only a few thousands? Well, the simple answer is time and…
A systems map is a powerful visual tool that helps us understand the complexity of a system and how individual components are connected. Systems map allows us to talk about interrelations more easily as they are based on theoretical concepts…
There are four basic types of scales of measurement – nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio. Since each scale is better suited to specific types of variables, it limits or enables us to perform specific statistical operations or tests. Let’s look…
We live in a complex world and systems thinking is a way of looking at this complexity in its entirety. Complex meaning complicated in structure and interconnected parts that makes up the whole which is often difficult to analyze or…
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…
