Finding the True Meaning of Cultural and Social Entepreneurship
Autor: AmyvanDillen • February 16, 2013 • Essay • 279 Words (2 Pages) • 1,458 Views
I'm trying to find the meaning of social and cultural entepreneuship. I want to see if a 19th century entpreneur is different from what we know today. For that i have to dig deep for the meaning and understandig of the entepreneuship of the 21st century. I have to see if this concept has been changed, and so, if it can help future culture organisations with their own future.I will research the architect of the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands. He was from a small town in the south of Holland. Yet he remains fairly unknown. I would like to see if i can change this, in my near surroundings. Wish me luck So far:
Prevailing theories of nonprofit development have tended to focus on the presence or
absence of certain cultural sentiments (e.g. altruism) or preferences (e.g. different demands
for collective goods). But these theories do not provide very convincing explanations of the
significant variations that exist in the scope and structure of the civil society sector among
countries, particularly in settings where democratic political systems and functioning market
economies do not exist.
A common shortcoming of these theories is that they assume a
degree of flexibility in institutional choice that seems belied by the historical record. Choices
about whether to rely on market, third-sector, or state provision of key services are not simply
made freely by individual consumers in an open market as advocates of the economic
preference theories seem to assume. Rather, these choices are heavily constrained by prior
patterns of historical
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