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  title info:
    title: Developing legal framework for social enterprise business entity in Malaysia
  name:
    name part: Mohd Shahril Nizam Md Radzi
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  name:
    name part: Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin
    name part: Faculty of Law and International Relations
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: my
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xx, 365 leaves ; 31 cm.
  abstract: The emergence of social enterprise as a new paradigm in social development has gained attention from numerous scholars in various disciplines. Through the concept of innovation, social enterprise exists in-between three economic sectors (Government, Private Sector and Non- Profit Organization) to meet societal demands and needs effectively. Social enterprise operates with dual missions to serve social needs through commercial activities and providing limited profit distribution. In Malaysia, the development of social enterprise is still left behind the developed countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States and Italy. The absence of a specific business vehicle for social enterprise in Malaysia is indeed a problem that has forced social entrepreneurs to operate their business through various existing business entities. Unfortunately, those business entities do not fit with the nature of their business operations. Further, several issues such as governance and tax treatment have arisen and might threaten their sustainability. Therefore, the objectives of this research are to analyze suitable business structure and tax treatment for social enterprise and to propose a legal framework of a new business entity for social enterprise in Malaysia .This research adopted a legal doctrinal methodology as it is relevant to evaluate and analyze legal theories for the development and their application to social enterprise. This type of methodology also employed a content analysis approach, based on historical, philosophical and comparative perspectives. As for data collection, this research resorted to data from primary and secondary sources in law. The data from primary sources consist oflegal statutes and cases from respective countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States and Malaysia, whereas the data from secondary sources include law books, journals, newspapers' articles and reports, conference proceedings and other relevant legal documents. All of the abo…
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. The concepts and legal treatment on social enterprise -- 3. Business entities for social enterprise -- 4. Legal scholarship and legal attributes of corporate personality -- 5. Tax treatment for social enterprise business entities -- 6. Suggested legal framework and tax treatment for public interest corporate:a business entities for social enterprise in Malaysia -- 7. Further research & conclusion
  note: Mohd Shahril Nizam bin Md Radzi
  note: Thesis (Degree of Doctor of Philosophy) - Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, 2020
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 264-275)
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin
    topic: Dissertations
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin
    topic: Faculty of Law and International Relations
    genre: Dissertations
  subject:
    topic: Business enterprises
  subject:
    topic: Business enterprises
    topic: Law and legislation
    geographic: Malaysia
  subject:
    topic: Dissertations, Academic
  subject:
    topic: Social entrepreneurship
  subject:
    topic: Social entrepreneurship
    geographic: Malaysia
  classification: K1301 .M64 2020
  record info:
    record content source: UniSZA
    record creation date: 201026
    record change date: 20240709093000.0
    record identifier: 0000099475