Daniel B. Cornfield
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691160733
- eISBN:
- 9781400873890
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691160733.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture
This chapter considers the pathways to becoming an artistic social entrepreneur. Previous research on social entrepreneurs has emphasized the impact of one's stock of human, social, and cultural ...
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This chapter considers the pathways to becoming an artistic social entrepreneur. Previous research on social entrepreneurs has emphasized the impact of one's stock of human, social, and cultural capital on one's mobilization of requisite resources for launching and sustaining a social enterprise. Less sociological attention has been given to the influence of career-biographical factors, such as family, religion, education, and pivotal career turning points that may inspire and compel one to become a social entrepreneur and to envision and shape one's social enterprise, let alone an artistic social enterprise. The profiles of four artistic social entrepreneurs in this chapter illustrate how their strategic and risk orientations and career pathways shape the social enterprises they envision and influence their assumption and enactment of their roles as artist activists.Less
This chapter considers the pathways to becoming an artistic social entrepreneur. Previous research on social entrepreneurs has emphasized the impact of one's stock of human, social, and cultural capital on one's mobilization of requisite resources for launching and sustaining a social enterprise. Less sociological attention has been given to the influence of career-biographical factors, such as family, religion, education, and pivotal career turning points that may inspire and compel one to become a social entrepreneur and to envision and shape one's social enterprise, let alone an artistic social enterprise. The profiles of four artistic social entrepreneurs in this chapter illustrate how their strategic and risk orientations and career pathways shape the social enterprises they envision and influence their assumption and enactment of their roles as artist activists.
Daniel B. Cornfield
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691160733
- eISBN:
- 9781400873890
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691160733.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture
At a time when the bulwarks of the music industry are collapsing, what does it mean to be a successful musician and artist? How might contemporary musicians sustain their artistic communities? Based ...
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At a time when the bulwarks of the music industry are collapsing, what does it mean to be a successful musician and artist? How might contemporary musicians sustain their artistic communities? Based on interviews with over seventy-five popular-music professionals in Nashville, this book looks at artist activists—those visionaries who create inclusive artist communities in today's individualistic and entrepreneurial art world. Using Nashville as a model, the book develops a theory of artist activism—the ways that artist peers strengthen and build diverse artist communities. The book discusses how genre-diversifying artist activists have arisen throughout the late twentieth-century musician migration to Nashville, a city that boasts the highest concentration of music jobs in the United States. Music City is now home to diverse recording artists—including Jack White, El Movimiento, the Black Keys, and Paramore. The book identifies three types of artist activists: the artist-producer who produces and distributes his or her own and others' work while mentoring early-career artists, the social entrepreneur who maintains social spaces for artist networking, and arts trade union reformers who are revamping collective bargaining and union functions. Throughout, the book examines enterprising musicians both known and less recognized. It links individual and collective actions taken by artist activists to their orientations toward success, audience, and risk and to their original inspirations for embarking on music careers. The book offers a new model of artistic success based on innovating creative institutions to benefit the society at large.Less
At a time when the bulwarks of the music industry are collapsing, what does it mean to be a successful musician and artist? How might contemporary musicians sustain their artistic communities? Based on interviews with over seventy-five popular-music professionals in Nashville, this book looks at artist activists—those visionaries who create inclusive artist communities in today's individualistic and entrepreneurial art world. Using Nashville as a model, the book develops a theory of artist activism—the ways that artist peers strengthen and build diverse artist communities. The book discusses how genre-diversifying artist activists have arisen throughout the late twentieth-century musician migration to Nashville, a city that boasts the highest concentration of music jobs in the United States. Music City is now home to diverse recording artists—including Jack White, El Movimiento, the Black Keys, and Paramore. The book identifies three types of artist activists: the artist-producer who produces and distributes his or her own and others' work while mentoring early-career artists, the social entrepreneur who maintains social spaces for artist networking, and arts trade union reformers who are revamping collective bargaining and union functions. Throughout, the book examines enterprising musicians both known and less recognized. It links individual and collective actions taken by artist activists to their orientations toward success, audience, and risk and to their original inspirations for embarking on music careers. The book offers a new model of artistic success based on innovating creative institutions to benefit the society at large.
Lester M. Salamon
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- June 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199376520
- eISBN:
- 9780199377633
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199376520.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
A key question about the developments chronicled in this book is whether they represent a flash in the pan or a durable trend in the financing of social-purpose activity. To assess this, the chapter ...
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A key question about the developments chronicled in this book is whether they represent a flash in the pan or a durable trend in the financing of social-purpose activity. To assess this, the chapter examines the factors driving these developments. More particularly, it identifies a set of both “supply” and “demand” factors propelling the new developments and concludes that there are substantial reasons to believe the developments have significant staying power.Less
A key question about the developments chronicled in this book is whether they represent a flash in the pan or a durable trend in the financing of social-purpose activity. To assess this, the chapter examines the factors driving these developments. More particularly, it identifies a set of both “supply” and “demand” factors propelling the new developments and concludes that there are substantial reasons to believe the developments have significant staying power.
Dana Brakman Reiser and Steven A. Dean
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190249786
- eISBN:
- 9780190249816
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190249786.003.0005
- Subject:
- Law, Company and Commercial Law
This chapter describes how social enterprise founders and investors can use financial instruments to credibly signal their double-bottom-line commitments to each other. Its main example is a ...
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This chapter describes how social enterprise founders and investors can use financial instruments to credibly signal their double-bottom-line commitments to each other. Its main example is a contingent convertible debt instrument that would constrain both investors and entrepreneurs from unilaterally abandoning social mission in favor of profit. The instrument’s low yield and long term would reassure entrepreneurs by screening in only investors willing to sacrifice profit for social mission for a considerable period. Conversion rights triggered on the sale of founders’ equity would allow investors to trust founders not to sell out. In an IPO or sale before the instrument’s maturity, founders would lose a significant share of any profit to debtholders unless these lenders agreed to its terms. Through this example and others, the chapter shows how social entrepreneurs and impact investors can craft sophisticated financial instruments to overcome the trust deficit that would otherwise keep them apart.Less
This chapter describes how social enterprise founders and investors can use financial instruments to credibly signal their double-bottom-line commitments to each other. Its main example is a contingent convertible debt instrument that would constrain both investors and entrepreneurs from unilaterally abandoning social mission in favor of profit. The instrument’s low yield and long term would reassure entrepreneurs by screening in only investors willing to sacrifice profit for social mission for a considerable period. Conversion rights triggered on the sale of founders’ equity would allow investors to trust founders not to sell out. In an IPO or sale before the instrument’s maturity, founders would lose a significant share of any profit to debtholders unless these lenders agreed to its terms. Through this example and others, the chapter shows how social entrepreneurs and impact investors can craft sophisticated financial instruments to overcome the trust deficit that would otherwise keep them apart.
William James Fear
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781447321859
- eISBN:
- 9781447321880
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447321859.003.0015
- Subject:
- Social Work, Research and Evaluation
In 1999 the Institute of Medicine published the report ‘To Err is Human’ which made the extraordinary claim that up 98,000 people suffered serious avoidable harm and mortality in the US Healthcare ...
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In 1999 the Institute of Medicine published the report ‘To Err is Human’ which made the extraordinary claim that up 98,000 people suffered serious avoidable harm and mortality in the US Healthcare system. This claim has become integral to healthcare policy worldwide and is accepted in the highest ranking academic journals despite its dubious provenance. The evidence was derived by extrapolating from small studies, which used questionable methodology, to the population at large and had high emotive content with strong moral overtones. The social entrepreneurs behind the project are identified and discussed with the conclusion that how we treat vulnerable members of our society remains clouded by moral panic.Less
In 1999 the Institute of Medicine published the report ‘To Err is Human’ which made the extraordinary claim that up 98,000 people suffered serious avoidable harm and mortality in the US Healthcare system. This claim has become integral to healthcare policy worldwide and is accepted in the highest ranking academic journals despite its dubious provenance. The evidence was derived by extrapolating from small studies, which used questionable methodology, to the population at large and had high emotive content with strong moral overtones. The social entrepreneurs behind the project are identified and discussed with the conclusion that how we treat vulnerable members of our society remains clouded by moral panic.
Peter North and Molly Scott Cato
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781447327226
- eISBN:
- 9781447327240
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447327226.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
This chapter sets the scene for the edited collection which follows it, recounting the findings of an international conversation on the social and solidarity economies between participants from ...
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This chapter sets the scene for the edited collection which follows it, recounting the findings of an international conversation on the social and solidarity economies between participants from Europe and Latin America. It discusses problems and possibilities for learning and policy transference between different places, acknowledging the power relations involved between global north and south, centre and periphery. It introduces a four part conceptualisation of the social and solidarity economy sector between Social Enterprise and Social Entrepreneurship; the inclusive Social Economy; the Solidarity Economy, working on conceptions of how we want to live in a climate constrained world, and the Antagonistic Economy, challenging pathological aspects of contemporary neoliberalism.Less
This chapter sets the scene for the edited collection which follows it, recounting the findings of an international conversation on the social and solidarity economies between participants from Europe and Latin America. It discusses problems and possibilities for learning and policy transference between different places, acknowledging the power relations involved between global north and south, centre and periphery. It introduces a four part conceptualisation of the social and solidarity economy sector between Social Enterprise and Social Entrepreneurship; the inclusive Social Economy; the Solidarity Economy, working on conceptions of how we want to live in a climate constrained world, and the Antagonistic Economy, challenging pathological aspects of contemporary neoliberalism.
Gurucharan Gollerkeri and Natasha Chhabra
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- October 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199464807
- eISBN:
- 9780199087280
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199464807.003.0016
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies), Population and Demography
In this chapter we look at the importance and implications of the democratisation of knowledge. We begin with a discussion of how high-skilled migration takes place in a policy vacuum, and consider ...
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In this chapter we look at the importance and implications of the democratisation of knowledge. We begin with a discussion of how high-skilled migration takes place in a policy vacuum, and consider the changing nature of Indian migration highlighting the importance of student mobility. We also try to assess the nature and role of the overseas Indian community, and the need for a more nuanced and strategic tactical engagement for India with its diaspora. Following the gradual shift in recent times, in the perceptions of high-skilled migration from brain drain to brain gain and currently to the more virtuous circular migration, we explore the medium to long term dimensions to India’s engagement as a knowledge economy, and its ability to influence the global discourse on migration.Less
In this chapter we look at the importance and implications of the democratisation of knowledge. We begin with a discussion of how high-skilled migration takes place in a policy vacuum, and consider the changing nature of Indian migration highlighting the importance of student mobility. We also try to assess the nature and role of the overseas Indian community, and the need for a more nuanced and strategic tactical engagement for India with its diaspora. Following the gradual shift in recent times, in the perceptions of high-skilled migration from brain drain to brain gain and currently to the more virtuous circular migration, we explore the medium to long term dimensions to India’s engagement as a knowledge economy, and its ability to influence the global discourse on migration.
