Stay Cool with SHA Senior’s “Chillwear”
Amin Adjmi (SHA ’18) wants you to stay cool and rock a retro vibe. Specifically, he’d like you to wear his StayCoolNYC clothing, a line of T-shirts, hoodies, caps, and more emblazoned with the words Stay Cool and graphics in a 1980s-esque palette of mellow pinks and greens and blues. “I call it chillwear,” says Adjmi, to […]
Heroic Messiahs or Practical Businessmen? The Narration and the Reality of Social Entrepreneurship in India.
By Makarand Mody Abstract While the phenomenon of social entrepreneurship is not new, there remain several ambiguities associated with its definition and theoretical formulation. To understand how social entrepreneurs create value in their quest to resolve social issues, it is important to appreciate the motivations that underlie their behavior. This chapter uses the cases of […]
Social Entrepreneurship Typologies and Tourism: Conceptual Frameworks
By Makarand Mody Abstract The chapter examines the ways that social entrepreneurs (SE) and Socially-Entrepreneurial Organizations (SEO) have been categorized. SEs have been categorized in terms of their personal traits and character, their organizational context, their work/leadership style, their motivations and the types of activities they undertake. SEOs have been categorized by the way they […]
Rationality of social entrepreneurs in tourism: Max Weber and the sociology of tourism development.
By Makarand Mody Abstract Despite increasing recognition of its contribution to development in many parts of the world, academic research about social entrepreneurship remains in its infancy. There has been little inquiry into the rationale for social entrepreneurship, despite its potential to clarify many conceptual ambiguities associated with this emerging phenomenon. In response to such […]