scholarly journals The notion of social responsibility in social enterprises and non-profit organizations

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Sacchetti ◽  
Ermanno Tortia
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Non Profit Organizations

scholarly journals Analysis of the Characteristics of Social Enterprises: The Case of Microfinance Institutions and Non-Profit Organizations Benefiting from Microcredit in Burundi

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Marie-Goreth Nduwayo ◽  
Michel Sayumwe
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Alignment ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Organizational Efficiency ◽  
Single Source ◽  
Microfinance Institutions ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Income Generating Activities ◽  
Non Profit Organizations

<p><em>The crisis that Burundi has experienced since October 1993 has led to the emergence of new associative mechanisms at the initiative of Burundian citizens around the same adventure: that of microcredit. Far from being a fad, microcredit has been the single source of financing for poor citizens by enabling them to engage in income-generating activities. For this, beneficiaries who are for the most part without material guarantee must not only group themselves in associations, but also align themselves with the constraints of the lessor. According to the theory of contingency, any organization can increase its performance to the extent that its strategy is in harmony with its environment. Our analysis considers the issue of strategic alignment from a new angle. We conclude that the adjustment of the NPOs members to the modalities of granting loans enables them to benefit from Microfinance Institutions which help to reach their main objectives and to promote a real organizational efficiency.</em><em></em></p>

From “virtuous” to “pragmatic” pursuit of social mission

2015 ◽  
Vol 38 (9) ◽  
pp. 970-991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. McDonald ◽  
Jay Weerawardena ◽  
Sreedhar Madhavaram ◽  
Gillian Sullivan Mort
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Work ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Fiscal Sustainability ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Term Survival ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Social Mission ◽  
The Social ◽  
Non Profit Organizations

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to offer a sustainability-based typology for non-profit organizations and corresponding strategies to sustain the mission and/or financial objectives of non-profit organizations. The balance of mission and money, known in the non-profit literature as the double bottom line, is a challenge for professional managers who run non-profits and scholars who study them. Design/methodology/approach – Typologies are often used to classify phenomena to improve understanding and bring about clarity. In this paper, non-profit organizations are viewed from a social and fiscal viability perspective, developed from the long standing challenge of balancing mission and money. Findings – The typology developed in this paper identifies several normative strategies that correspond to the social and fiscal viability of non-profit organizations. In fact, the strategies offered in this paper can help non-profit managers achieve organizational sustainability, thus enabling them to continue what they are meant to do – to provide greater social value to their constituents. Research limitations/implications – The typology presented is a classification system rather than a theoretical typology. Its purpose is to help managers of non-profits to recognize threats to their organizations’ long-term survival and offer strategies that if adopted can move the organizations to less vulnerable positions. However, the recommended strategies are by no means exhaustive. Furthermore, the focus of the paper is on non-profit organizations, not profit-driven or hybrid entities. The sustainability-based typology of non-profit organizations and the corresponding strategies have implications for practitioners and academics. The typology and its contents can help managers assess their non-profits, competitive environment and their current strategies, plan their double bottom line strategies and last but not the least, develop and implement strategies for social and fiscal sustainability. In addition, our paper provides great opportunities for future research to subject our typology and its contents to conceptual and empirical scrutiny. Practical implications – The strategies described here are developed based on scholarly research and examples from successful non-profits. The typology and the related list of strategies provide a manager with the tools to accurately diagnose organizational challenges and adopt plans to improve the organization’s viability. Social implications – Non-profit organizations are an integral part of society that bolsters economic prosperity, environmental integrity and social justice. This paper may provide guidance for a number of non-profit managers to keep their organizations operating and serving important social missions. Originality/value – In the context of organizations for social mission, several typologies exist that looked at firms from the perspectives of ownership versus profit objectives, entrepreneurship conceptualizations of economists and origins and development paths of social enterprises. While these typologies provided foundations for theoretical and empirical work into social enterprises, our typology offers strategies for the sustainability of mission and/or money objectives of non-profits. The value of this research lies in integrating virtuous and pragmatic objectives of non-profit sustainability that, in turn, can ensure the social mission of non-profits.

scholarly journals Collectivist Practices in Social Innovation: Functions of Cooperation

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-71
Author(s):  
Svetlana G. Klimova ◽  
Ivan A. Klimov
Keyword(s):  
Business Strategy ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Independent Effect ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Social ◽  
Non Profit Organizations ◽  
Production Problems

This articles analyzes the business strategy of social innovators. We call the heads and employees of non-profit organizations, social enterprises, and the initiators of volunteer projects “social innovators”, as they not only use organizational novelties in their activities, but also change routine rules and practices, which alters the life of a society connected in any way with the activities of those organizations. It is demonstrated that the standard expectations of ideologues and officials, in respect to the activity of social innovators, contradict their values and visions of proper behavior. They consistently show orientation towards cooperation with each other and the social environment. Solidarity, the development of communities around non-profit organizations or social enterprises, is not only a resource, but also an independent effect of their activity. The functions of cooperation in the activity of social innovators are described. Cooperation is required not only to implement the mission accepted by innovators, but also to solve practical production problems. These are: the increase of knowledge and exchange of experience; cooperation for solving difficult problems; the joint elaboration of standards of professional ethics and business ethics; a way to gain reputation among colleagues and service consumers; the promotion of new values; and the preservation, re-creation, or restoration of the local community. It is concluded that the competition ideologeme promoted in the community of social innovators should be replaced with the cooperation ideologeme and relevant training programs.

Basic Determinants of Social Entrepreneurship: Scientific Discussion and Legal Framework

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (3) ◽  
pp. 182-199
Author(s):  
Margarita Vasyunina
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Scientific Discussion ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Non Profit Organizations ◽  
Definition Of

Social entrepreneurship is a developing economic and social phenomenon that needs scientific interpretation and solid legal framework. Russian and foreign researchers are actively discussing the content, boundaries, determinants of social entrepreneurship. The article examines modern approaches to the definition of social entrepreneurship, summarizes the typology of social enterprises, analyzes the characteristics of socially oriented non-profit organizations. The author gives a description of socially oriented non-profit organizations in the Russian Federation, points to the legitimacy of these organizations as a public service and recipients of government preferences and presents the reflections on the exclusion of government institutions from social entrepreneurship.

Smokey Tours: the other side of Manila

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Fernando Martin Roxas ◽  
Andrea Santiago
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Multiple Stakeholders ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Slum Tourism ◽  
Marketing Operations ◽  
Non Profit Organizations ◽  
Main Activity

Subject area Managing non-profit organizations, social enterprises, strategic management for small entities and tourism. Study level/applicability Useful for graduate students enrolled in courses with development aspects. Undergraduate students learning about non-profit organizations can also benefit. Case overview This is a case of a small non-profit organization that is struggling to formalize its operating systems to generate sufficient surplus to plough funds back to the community that it envisioned to serve. The protagonist has to make a decision of whether to invest large sums in a health center for permanent visibility or to implement health services on a smaller scale given its current level of operations. Whether the protagonists’ operations are scaleable or not is also in question, as its main activity – slum tours – is not a widely accepted concept. Expected learning outcomes 1. Students will understand the challenges of starting and growing non-profit organizations. 2. Students will recognize the need to make operations efficient and to establish control systems to manage enterprise resources. 3. Students will realize that decision-making requires the balancing of interests of multiple stakeholders. 4. Students will learn to analyze the options of financing social projects considering marketing, operations and financial data. 5. Students will gain better appreciation of the merits and demerits of slum tourism. Supplementary materials Teaching Notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email [email protected] to request teaching notes. Subject code CSS 11: Strategy.

scholarly journals Prospects of social entrepreneurship development in Ukraine

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 39-44
Author(s):  
Anna Popovich ◽  
Oleksandr Katsora
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
State Level ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Entrepreneurship Development ◽  
Non Profit Organizations

The article analyzes the phenomenon of social entrepreneurship and the possibility of its spread in the activities of non-profit organizations. Therefore, the purpose of the article is to outline the prospects for the development of social entrepreneurship in Ukraine and to summarize the factors that influence this process. To achieve this goal, system analysis (to outline the phenomenon of social entrepreneurship), analysis of expert assessments (for assessment of the state and trends of social entrepreneurship) and document analysis (to identify normative especially regulation of social entrepreneurship) were used.It is established that social entrepreneurship is an effective method of solving social problems, which has its own peculiarities of functioning and practice of implementation in Ukraine. The situation of social entrepreneurship in Ukraine and its normative-legal provision is considered. The article outlines the main deterrents and incentives that affect the development of social entrepreneurship and its implementation in the activities of non-profit organizations.The impact of different scenarios of social entrepreneurship development in Ukraine, including the growth of social enterprises due to the large number of social problems in Ukraine, legitimization of social entrepreneurship at the level of national legislation and economic development of the Ukrainian state, which will contribute to state support of social enterprises, taking into account the mechanisms of implementation of the social order. It was found that the main factors influencing the development of social entrepreneurship are raising the level of social consciousness of citizens, legislative definition of social enterprises and their taxation, financial support of social enterprises at the state level, grant support, increase of own incomes of non-profit organizations.

Entrepreneurship by and for Disadvantaged Populations

2019 ◽  
pp. 411-429
Author(s):  
Maija Renko ◽  
Michael J. Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Positive Outcomes ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Disadvantaged Populations ◽  
The Core ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Micro Enterprises

We address social responsibility through the lens of entrepreneurship. We first describe difficulties faced by specific disadvantaged populations, such as women, minorities, immigrants, and people with disabilities. We then describe how models used by social enterprises—that is, non-profit and for-profit ventures with a primary goal of helping a disadvantaged group—can help. Social responsibility is at the core of social enterprises that provide services and products for the disadvantaged, while entrepreneurship within disadvantaged populations is an often overlooked element in the discussion of CSR and entrepreneurship. Though they may not have explicitly altruistic goals, members of disadvantaged populations engaging in self-employment and micro-enterprises use their work to offset disadvantage, which is implicitly socially responsible. This inclusive view of entrepreneurship by the disadvantaged, combined with the unconflicted CSR of entrepreneurship for the disadvantaged, provides a basis for researching entrepreneurship that is more concerned with positive outcomes than negative barriers.

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