Social Innovation and Business in Taiwan
Globalization and technological innovation have greatly enhanced the free mobility of currencies, commodities, services, information, jobs and people; yet this can also cause gaps in regional development and create uneven wealth in minority economies. Soc
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Social Innovation and Business in Taiwan I Han and Sheng-Tsung Hou
SOCIAL INNOVATION AND BUSINESS IN TAIWAN
Copyright © I Han and Sheng-Tsung Hou 2016 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2016 978-1-137-40561-6
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To the taxi drivers and farmers in Taiwan
Contents
List of Figures
ix
List of Tables
xi
Foreword Dr. Cheng-Shu Kao Preface Introduction 1 Why Social Enterprise Matters
xiii xv 1 5
2 Theoretical Foundations
17
3 Methodology: Participatory Action Research via Industry–Academia Collaboration
29
4 Taiwan Taxi Company
37
5 East-Taiwan Private Trip
57
6 Happy Yilan, Creative Countryside
69
7 The Post-WTO Rice Industry in a Local Development: The Initiatives of Chih Shang Rice Company
85
8 The Rural Community of Regeneration: Yong-An Community at Luyeh Taitung
111
9 Theoretical Implications
137
10 Practical Implications
149
11 Toward the Practice of Social Innovation for the Common Good: An Integration of “Teaching–Research–Service”
161
Notes
189
References
193
Index
211
List of Figures
1.1 Wealth Distribution by Income in the United States in the Twentieth Century
7
1.2
The Common Social Problems of the World
8
1.3
Civil Engagement and Initiatives of Social Enterprises
13
1.4
The Spectrum of Social Enterprises
15
3.1
Dimensions for Typologies of Engaged Scholarship
33
4.1
Satellite Dispatching
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