Essays about: "for-profit organisations"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 essays containing the words for-profit organisations.
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1. Understanding the Relationship between Sustainability and Technology: Perspectives of Young Sustainability Practitioners in For-Profit Organizations
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)Abstract : One of the most critical issues of our time is sustainability. Simultaneously, techno optimism is prevailing in public discourse suggesting that technology will create a sustainable future without requiring drastic changes. READ MORE
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2. Filling in the Blanks : framing and interpreting the environment in Swedish development cooperation
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : This thesis explores how the understanding of such an ambiguous concept as “the environment” can be communicated in Swedish development cooperation by the Governments and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in a way that reconciles the need to deliver on policy goals while still allowing for an interpretative and participatory project design. The central research problem studied was thus how to communicate environmental understandings without explicitly doing so. READ MORE
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3. Impact Investments for the Social Economy: Reframing the impact investing phenomenon by evaluating impact investment strategies from a social ecological economics perspective
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : Social economy organisations are attributed a major role in solving societal and environmental problems and in implementing social innovations in Europe. These organisations are private entities running economic activities whose main purpose is to provide goods and services to their members or the community at large, with profits coming second. READ MORE
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4. Do the right thing- A paradox theory approach to corporate sustainability strategies
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : Through a never-before-seen momentum, the concept of corporate sustainability has become a considerable part of the corporate world. In the past couple of years, more and more multinational corporations have tried to develop and integrate a sustainability strategy encompassing environmental-, social and economic aspects within their organisations, often with a mainstream, for-profit strategy. READ MORE
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5. The Perception of Mission Drift: A Qualitative Study of the Strategic Value of Pursuing Multiple Values Within Danish Hybrid Organisations
University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenAbstract : The global corporate landscape is changing, making way for a new type of organisational structure emphasising less traditional stakeholder values, particularly non-financial values regarding social and environmental concerns. However, at the core of these organisations, the logics of traditional non-profit organisations and for-profit ventures are combined, which obliges the organisations to balance non-financial values and financial values, defining these organisations as hybrid entities. READ MORE
