scholarly journals Social Entrepreneurship in the Conduct of Responsible Innovation: Analysis Cluster in Mexican SMEs

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Liliana Bahena-Álvarez ◽  
Eulogio Cordón-Pozo ◽  
Alejandro Delgado-Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Scientific Organization ◽  
Statistical Technique ◽  
Social Rejection ◽  
Responsible Innovation ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
The Social ◽  
Innovation Analysis

Responsible innovation combines philanthropic and economic aspects and it is common to refer to entrepreneurs who lead it as "social entrepreneurs". The present study of 100 Mexican SMEs, provides knowledge of exploratory nature about what the models of organization are conducive to SMEs in the generation and development of responsible innovations. Through the statistical technique of cluster analysis, this study identified and characterized four models of organization according to the level of social entrepreneurship reached: (1) “The techno-scientific organization”, (2) “The techno-social organization”, (3) “The capitalist-social organization” and (4) “The capitalist organization”. While in Europe the dominant discourse about responsible innovation focuses on the control of the risk of social rejection of the advance of science and technology; in contexts such as the Mexican, the phenomenon is configured as the mechanism through which entrepreneurs articulate its technological and scientific capabilities to solve priority and specific problems of the society, however, the social impact does not crucially affect their business initiatives. The techno-scientific organization (50% of studied SMEs) is proposed as the model of organization with greater viability for Mexican entrepreneurs.

scholarly journals Social Entrepreneurship in the Conduct of Responsible Innovation: Analysis Cluster in Mexican SMEs

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (13) ◽  
pp. 3714 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene L. Bahena-Álvarez ◽  
Eulogio Cordón-Pozo ◽  
Alejandro Delgado-Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Scientific Organization ◽  
Statistical Technique ◽  
Social Rejection ◽  
Responsible Innovation ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
The Social ◽  
Innovation Analysis

Responsible innovation combines philanthropic and economic aspects and it is common to refer to entrepreneurs who lead it as “social entrepreneurs”. The present study of 100 Mexican small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), provides knowledge of an exploratory nature about what the models of organization are conducive to SMEs in the generation and development of responsible innovations. Through the statistical technique of cluster analysis, this study identified and characterized four models of organization according to the level of social entrepreneurship intentions reached: (1) “The techno-scientific organization”, (2) “The techno-social organization”, (3) “The capitalist-social organization” and (4) “The capitalist organization”. While in Europe the dominant discourse about responsible innovation focuses on the control of the risk of social rejection of the advance of science and technology. In contexts, such as the Mexicans, the phenomenon is configured as the mechanism through which entrepreneurs articulate its technological and scientific capabilities to solve priority and specific problems of the society, however, the social impact does not crucially affect their business initiatives. The techno-scientific organization (50% of studied SMEs) is proposed as the model of organization with greater viability for Mexican entrepreneurs.

Integrating Social Entrepreneurship Literature Through Teaching

2021 ◽  
pp. 251512742110219
Author(s):  
Angela E. Addae ◽  
Cheryl Ellenwood
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Sectors

As boundaries between the business and social sectors dissolve, social entrepreneurship has emerged as a phenomenon that bridges two worlds previously divided. Now, social entrepreneurs embrace market-based tools to address society’s greatest challenges. Coinciding with the growth of the sector, students and researchers have sought to understand development, growth strategies, and the practical challenges related to social entrepreneurship. In turn, universities have bolstered social entrepreneurship education by creating academic offerings that emphasize business, social impact, and innovation. Still, social entrepreneurship education remains in its infancy. Courses are as varied as the field itself, and instructors routinely rely on their professional backgrounds and networks to develop curricula that explore the field’s multifaceted character. Thus, social entrepreneurship courses are diverse across disciplines, and the academic literature theorizing the phenomenon is similarly emergent. As social entrepreneurship courses combine theoretical insights with experiential learning in a myriad of ways, aligning theoretical insights with necessary core competencies presents a challenge. To address this dilemma, we highlight the importance of employing theory-driven concepts to develop core competencies in social entrepreneurship students. In doing so, we review key threshold concepts in the social entrepreneurship literature and suggest how instructors might link theoretical insights to practical skill sets.

How do social responsibility and social entrepreneurship generate value creation in pandemics?

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Silva ◽  
Margarida Rodrigues ◽  
Mário Franco ◽  
Cidália Oliveira ◽  
Nuno Sousa
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
High Degree

Purpose Using self-determination theory and individual social responsibility’s (ISRs) association with pure social entrepreneurship, this study aims to answer the following question: How and why have the different actors responded to the crisis caused by the pandemic? Design/methodology/approach Qualitative research (multiple case studies) was adopted, resorting to interviewees with seven economic and non-economic actors in the Portugal context. Findings The results obtained, using MAXQDA software, show that those carrying out actions of social responsibility have a high degree of self-determination and intrinsic motivation, and are true social entrepreneurs, which lets them improve the well-being of those around them. In addition, these individuals feel good about themselves by performing these actions, as they measure their performance by the social impact of their actions on society in general. Practical implications This study suggest there is a high awareness amongst people to exercise that responsibility in a voluntary way, through humanitarian initiatives and campaigns brought about especially by an unprecedented pandemic. In practice, people joining these initiatives motivate many others towards the causes, creating the will to continue in the future and satisfy unmet needs provoked by social crises. Originality/value This study is innovative because it is related to filling the gaps identified, mainly by carrying out an empirical study about ISR, rather than that of firms, where studies are more common.

Leadership in Social Entrepreneurship

2017 ◽  
pp. 768-789
Author(s):  
Jorge Colvin Díez ◽  
José Manuel Saiz-Alvarez
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Social Entrepreneur ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Theories Of Leadership ◽  
Indirect Action

The social entrepreneur has been analyzed from many perspectives, either from its social impact, its proposed social value, or its direct or indirect action. This chapter attempts to analyze the entrepreneur from a new approach: the perspective of the leader. Therefore, the question arises: is leadership in social entrepreneurs an evolutionary process or not? Is it a natural ability or a learned technique? Is the social entrepreneur a leader born or made? To answer this, [1] we will analyze the main contemporary theories of leadership from two different paradigms (Colvin, 2013), [2] we will define new concepts in the world of social entrepreneurship, [3] we will establish a life cycle of strategic leadership promoted by the social entrepreneur focused on his or her organization in order to serve as a seed for the intended social impact.

Genesis and Development of Social Entrepreneurship in India

2017 ◽  
pp. 414-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neeta Baporikar
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Value Creation

Societies world over are urgently seeking innovative approaches to address persistent social problems of health care, poverty, child labour, literacy etc. These problems not only persist but also have increased in intensity and complexity. Thus, there is furor for innovative entrepreneurial approaches that can create more social value with limited resources. These approaches need to leverage better on resources to enhance effectiveness through creative partnerships by raised expectations, performance and accountability so as to achieve more sustainable social impact. What business entrepreneurs are to the economy, social entrepreneurs are to society? They may, like business entrepreneurs, be interested in profit, but their emphasis is on social change. While the challenges in the social sector are many, the potential and opportunity for social entrepreneurship to be a powerful force for social value creation has never been greater. Through grounded research and in depth contextual analysis, this chapter focuses on India's genesis and development of social entrepreneurship.

The future of social entrepreneurship: modelling and predicting social impact

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Azreen Zulkefly ◽  
Norjihan Abdul Ghani ◽  
Christie Pei-Yee Chin ◽  
Suraya Hamid ◽  
Nor Aniza Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Prediction Model ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Naive Bayes ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Impact Prediction ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future

PurposePredicting the impact of social entrepreneurship is crucial as it can help social entrepreneurs to determine the achievement of their social mission and performance. However, there is a lack of existing social entrepreneurship models to predict social enterprises' social impacts. This paper aims to propose the social impact prediction model for social entrepreneurs using a data analytic approach.Design/methodology/approachThis study implemented an experimental method using three different algorithms: naive Bayes, k-nearest neighbor and J48 decision tree algorithms to develop and test the social impact prediction model.FindingsThe accurate result of the developed social impact prediction model is based on the list of identified social impact prediction variables that have been evaluated by social entrepreneurship experts. Based on the three algorithms' implementation of the model, the results showed that naive Bayes is the best performance classifier for social impact prediction accuracy.Research limitations/implicationsAlthough there are three categories of social entrepreneurship impact, this research only focuses on social impact. There will be a bright future of social entrepreneurship if the research can focus on all three social entrepreneurship categories. Future research in this area could look beyond these three categories of social entrepreneurship, so the prediction of social impact will be broader. The prospective researcher also can look beyond the difference and similarities of economic, social impacts and environmental impacts and study the overall perspective on those impacts.Originality/valueThis paper fulfills the need for the Malaysian social entrepreneurship blueprint to design the social impact in social entrepreneurship. There are none of the prediction models that can be used in predicting social impact in Malaysia. This study also contributes to social entrepreneur researchers, as the new social impact prediction variables found can be used in predicting social impact in social entrepreneurship in the future, which may lead to the significance of the prediction performance.

ON THE ISSUE OF ASSESSING THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 157-161
Author(s):  
MARGARITA NETESOVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
The Social ◽  
Quantitative Indicators ◽  
Current Procedure

Purpose of research. The purpose of the study is to develop a legal approach to assessing the social impact of such a phenomenon as social entrepreneurship. In accordance with the current legislation, social entrepreneurship is carried out in order to solve certain acute social problems facing society. There is an urgent need to assess to what extent this activity solves the task, in other words, to determine the level of social impact exerted by the category of social entrepreneurs. Currently, the current regulatory legal acts do not contain criteria for such an assessment. Conclusions. The analysis of certain types of social entrepreneurship and the current procedure for recognizing small and medium-sized businesses as social enterprises allowed us to identify quantitative indicators characterizing the social impact of certain types of social entrepreneurship. In addition, quantitative and qualitative indicators are proposed that can be used to evaluate those social enterprises whose activities cannot be evaluated on the basis of so-called "obvious" quantitative indicators. It is concluded that it is necessary to submit a report on the social impact of a small or medium-sized business entity applying for inclusion in the register of social entrepreneurs.

Ethics and Social Entrepreneurship

2019 ◽  
pp. 283-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renuka Garg ◽  
Subhash Yadav
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Personal Values ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Social Entrepreneur ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
Ethical Intentions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Resource Contribution

The authors highlight that it was the personal spiritual experience of the founders which slowly evolved into an ethical-spiritual social organization. The researchers suggest that ethical social entrepreneurship is the result of an intense yearning on the part of the social entrepreneur to serve and advance the wellbeing of people and the environment around them. These personal values of the social entrepreneurs impel a process of help and resource contribution from like-minded people and institutions which result in the formation of a social organization based on ethical intentions. The study proposes a new subdomain of social entrepreneurship which focuses on the subjective, individual, personal values of the social entrepreneur which result in the formation of the social enterprise. The present study is an attempt to highlight the role of own values in the creation and evolution of a social enterprise. It is an attempt to explore the relationship between ethics and social entrepreneurship with the help of three case studies of social enterprises in South Gujarat, India.

Development Problems of Social Entrepreneurship in Kazakhstan

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1186
Author(s):  
Maira Sh. BAUER ◽  
Raushan S. MUSSINA ◽  
Nelly A. BENCHEVA ◽  
Tatyana V. OVCHINNIKOVA ◽  
Indira K. AMERKHANOVA
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Public Information ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
Dual Nature ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range

Currently, the development dynamics of the market and socio-economic relations require creating hybrid forms of organizations, able to fill the market niches and to intervene when the state cannot fulfill its obligations. In this sense, social entrepreneurship is a popular term that encompasses a wide range of structures and organizations, running the business in order to achieve certain social impact. It should be understood that social entrepreneurship is not a project, but business, business of dual nature: entrepreneurship with strong social impact. The stages of development of the theoretical approaches to social entrepreneurship are presented in this article. Some issues of the formation of social entrepreneurship in Kazakhstan are considered. The main obstacles to the development of social entrepreneurship in Kazakhstan are the disparity of information on social entrepreneurship, the lack of consulting services, criteria and support mechanisms, public information on state tenders and contact details. Meanwhile, the development of social entrepreneurship in Kazakhstan is becoming an important activity for all stakeholders - the entrepreneurs, the state, and the society. Social entrepreneurs can become reliable partners of the state in solving the social problems in the country. They will be able to solve the social problems of the population in a qualitative way, simultaneously saving the budget funds allocated for the social sphere.

Genesis and Development of Social Entrepreneurship in India

2016 ◽  
pp. 355-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neeta Baporikar
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Limited Resources ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Value Creation

Societies world over are urgently seeking innovative approaches to address persistent social problems of health care, poverty, child labour, literacy etc. These problems not only persist but also have increased in intensity and complexity. Thus, there is furor for innovative entrepreneurial approaches that can create more social value with limited resources. These approaches need to leverage better on resources to enhance effectiveness through creative partnerships by raised expectations, performance and accountability so as to achieve more sustainable social impact. What business entrepreneurs are to the economy, social entrepreneurs are to society? They may, like business entrepreneurs, be interested in profit, but their emphasis is on social change. While the challenges in the social sector are many, the potential and opportunity for social entrepreneurship to be a powerful force for social value creation has never been greater. Through grounded research and in depth contextual analysis, this chapter focuses on India's genesis and development of social entrepreneurship.

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