Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
agency
German translation:
(in this context): unternehmerische Tätigkeit
Added to glossary by
avantix
May 25, 2007 13:15
16 yrs ago
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English term
Germany
Travel & Tourism, Marketing, Technical
Native in: German
Works in: English to German, German to English
agency
English to German
Social Sciences
Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.
Entrepreneurship
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.
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.
Proposed translations
(German)
| 3 +1 | unternehmerische Tätigkeit |
avantix
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| 4 | Handlungsfähigkeit, Akteurspotenzial |
Stephan Elkins
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| 3 | Engagement, Beteiligung |
David Seycek
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| 3 | Handeln, Tun |
Bernhard Sulzer
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Change log
Jun 7, 2007 07:35: avantix Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
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24 mins
Selected
unternehmerische Tätigkeit
... verwendet seine *unternehmerische Tätigkeit* .... usw.
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Comment: "Danke schön... nach langer Diskussion..."
5 mins
David Seycek
Austria
Austria
Native in German
Works in field
Austria
engineering, marketing + word power
Native in: German 
, Czech
Works in: English to German, Czech to German, German
Related KudoZ points
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20
Engagement, Beteiligung
Hinter “social” fehlt nichts, es ist substantivisch gebraucht (das Soziale)
21 mins
Stephan Elkins
United States
United States
Native in English
&
German
Specializes in field
United States
Social scientific expertise
Native in: English , German
Works in: English to German, German to English
Related KudoZ points
:
8
Handlungsfähigkeit, Akteurspotenzial
Some suggestions in line with common usages in the German social sciences.
2 hrs
Bernhard Sulzer
United States
United States
Native in German
Works in field
United States
High quality at a reasonable price
Native in: German
Works in: English to German, German to English, German, and 1 more.
Related KudoZ points
:
24
Handeln, Tun
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...
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...
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