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Building Community Well-Being Across Sectors with “For Benefit” Community Business

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Community Well-Being and Community Development

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Community business is reflective of several dimensions impacting community well-being, including economic sustainability and community development . This chapter provides an illustration of an alternative way of thinking economic and social well-being concerns, from the vantage point of community well-being. It is proposed that benefits accrue in an environment where social, natural and cultural dimensions of community are important and recognized by the private sector as well as the civic sector (public and non-governmental organizations) and reflected in community business approaches.

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    This section was excerpted with permission from the authors from Phillips et al. (2013).

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  1. Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

    Rhonda Phillips

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  1. Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Seung Jong Lee

  2. City & Regional Planning, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

    Yunji Kim

  3. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

    Rhonda Phillips

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Phillips, R. (2015). Building Community Well-Being Across Sectors with “For Benefit” Community Business. In: Lee, S., Kim, Y., Phillips, R. (eds) Community Well-Being and Community Development. SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12421-6_3

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