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