agency

German translation: (in this context): unternehmerische Tätigkeit

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English term or phrase:agency
German translation:(in this context): unternehmerische Tätigkeit
Entered by: avantix

13:15 May 25, 2007
English to German translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. / Entrepreneurship
English term or phrase: agency
Nochmal "agency", gleich im nächsten Satz.
Ich meine, nach "social" fehlt irgendwie auch ein Wort.... oder?

To conceive the entrepreneur as an atomistic and isolated agent of change is to ignore the milieu that supports, drives, produces and receives the entrepreneurial process. The entrepreneurial agent encounters the social, may be shaped by it, but in turn, employs his or her ***agency*** to change the structure.
BirgitBerlin
Germany
Local time: 22:38
unternehmerische Tätigkeit
Explanation:
... verwendet seine *unternehmerische Tätigkeit* .... usw.
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avantix
Netherlands
Local time: 22:38
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Summary of answers provided
4Handlungsfähigkeit, Akteurspotenzial
Stephan Elkins
3 +1unternehmerische Tätigkeit
avantix
3Engagement, Beteiligung
David Seycek
3Handeln, Tun
Bernhard Sulzer


  

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Engagement, Beteiligung


Explanation:
Hinter “social” fehlt nichts, es ist substantivisch gebraucht (das Soziale)

David Seycek
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Handlungsfähigkeit, Akteurspotenzial


Explanation:
Some suggestions in line with common usages in the German social sciences.

Stephan Elkins
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unternehmerische Tätigkeit


Explanation:
... verwendet seine *unternehmerische Tätigkeit* .... usw.

avantix
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agree  Christiane Hinsch (X)
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Handeln, Tun


Explanation:
as in : richtet sein Handeln/Tun darauf, Strukturen zu ändern

oder einfach : handelt um Strukturen zu ändern


= acts in order to change


Humans can and should be agents in the sense that they can decide and act to realize their aims, often making a difference to the world. Regardless of whether a person’s goals are altruistic or self-regarding, her “agency achievement refers to the realization of goals and values she has reasons to pursue” (Sen 1992: 56). For Sen, if one is acted on by outside persons or other forces or happens to act on a whim or impulse but for no reason, one is not an agent (in charge of herself) but a “patient,” a passive object, acted on by external or internal forces over which one has no control. A person as agent is “someone who acts and brings about change, and whose achievements can be judged in terms of her own values and objectives, whether or not we assess them in terms of some external criteria as well” (Sen 1999b: 19).


http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amartya_Sen
Amartya Sen

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Note added at 5 hrs (2007-05-25 18:17:31 GMT)
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here is the link for the paragraph I quoted:
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~dcrocker/Courses/Docs/Crocker-Sen an...


Bernhard Sulzer
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