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The article delves into the problem of representation of various images (metaphors) of wellbeing which are constituted and reproduced in various academic disciplines. At the present time there are great numbers of scientific approaches and concepts of wellbeing which at times touch upon different aspects of manВ’s life. These approaches often do not agree with each other. This article presents an attempt to construct an integral matrix of wellbeing theories which will provide for the review of various wellbeing co...

Hi-tech entrepreneurship increasingly deals with the mental capabilities of in-tellectual workers as the major resource of the post-Fordist enterprise. These workers discover and use ? on their own account ? new properties of intellect-intensive re-sources, and in doing so they acquire features that are similar to entrepreneurial quali-ties. Relying on the theory of autopoiesis, the radical subjectivist strand in econom-ics, and the radical humanist criticism of post-Fordism; we studied the major conse-quences of ...

Social value is an issue of crucial importance for comprehension of nascent forms of both social entrepreneurship and hi-tech business. In this paper I intend to substantiate the historically heterogeneous types of values created by entrepreneurs and to identify the distinguishing features of social value and modi of its creation. I resort to enactivist theory; the theory of regulative, normative and cognitive pillars of institutions; and the actor-network theory. According to the latter, socially constructed obje...