Social Entrepreneurship and the Multi-functionality of Urban Agriculture in Japan and China

Lily Kiminami (), Shinichi Furuzawa () and Akira Kiminami ()
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Shinichi Furuzawa: Niigata University
Akira Kiminami: The University of Tokyo

Chapter Chapter 6 in Social Entrepreneurship, Social Business and the Multi-functionality of Urban Agriculture, 2022, pp 61-78 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The purpose of this chapter is to clarify the mechanism of social entrepreneurship in urban agriculture, and examine the relationships among social institutions, social business and the multi-functionality of urban agriculture in Japan and China. The method of trajectory equifinality modeling (TEM) is introduced to each three cases from Tokyo (Japan) and Shanghai (China). The results indicated that social entrepreneurship (SE) was affected by social institutions (SI) on one side, and it also enhanced changes in social institution through the activities of social business (SB) on the other. And social capital (SC) was critically important to social entrepreneurship for the development of social business. Furthermore, it is expected that the residents will have a deeper understanding and a more active involvement in urban agriculture with the development of social businesses that bring out the multi-functionality of agriculture if more stakeholders are involved.

Keywords: Trajectory equifinality modeling (TEM); Social institution (SI); Social entrepreneurship (SE); Social capital (SC); Social business (SB); Tokyo; Shanghai (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-1762-2_6

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