scholarly journals Sectoral Social Entrepreneurship Innovation Opportunities in Nepal

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (514) ◽  
pp. 54-58
Author(s):  
Ghimire Rudra Prasad ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Educational Innovation ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Living Standard ◽  
Scientific Review ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Socially Responsive ◽  
Innovation Practices

Social entrepreneurship is a mix of sectoral innovation and resource availability by which social problems are treated as the ones handicapping a societie’s needs. It is a new dimension of the business sector. In Nepal, like everywhere in the world, a model of social entrepreneurship has been developed by several social innovators. The main aim of this research is to analyze the sectoral social entrepreneurship and innovation practices in Nepal. This paper is based on scientific review with reference to the social entrepreneurship and innovation in the context of Nepal economy. This subject matter is highly recognized due to its broad scope in terms of educational innovation, business innovation, environmental innovation, social innovation, financial innovation, technical innovations, innovations in all the sectors of economy, and, finally, innovations in the living standard of Nepalese people. Nepal needs social and economic transformation, which can be made by building socially responsive citizens. Thus, the context of Nepal suggests an opportunity for sectoral and structural innovations. Social innovations can make Nepal smart and strong. So, the government should create the environment for the social enterprise sector in Nepal.

scholarly journals Exploring the drivers of tensions in social innovation management in the context of social entrepreneurial teams

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (6) ◽  
pp. 1344-1361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frédéric Dufays
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Innovation Management ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Innovation Implementation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Entrepreneurial Teams ◽  
The Social ◽  
Entrepreneurial Team

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify tensions that are emerging in the invention and implementation of social innovation by social entrepreneurial teams and highlights elements that influence the type of tension encountered. Design/methodology/approach Four cases are selected theoretically, studied individually, and compared to one another to identify tensions and patterns of tensions. Findings The findings reveal the predominant tensions related to goals and identity during social innovation invention and those related to time and knowledge during social innovation implementation. The size of the entrepreneurial team, the nature of the social innovation, and the interest orientation – that is, the overlap between entrepreneurial team members and beneficiaries – are found to play a role in the type of tensions encountered and their content. Research limitations/implications The chosen research approach limits the generalizability of the research results. Replication in other settings and with other types of social innovation is therefore encouraged. Originality/value In contrast to most existing studies, this research focuses on nascent social innovation projects borne by teams. It proposes that social-business tensions are not necessarily predominant in social innovation management. It suggests the importance of interest orientation as an underestimated factor in the study of social entrepreneurship.

Social Innovation Practices in Services for Sustainable Consumption

2017 ◽  
pp. 32-65
Author(s):  
Banu Atrek ◽  
Burcu İlter
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Sustainable Consumption ◽  
Emerging Economy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
The Future ◽  
Innovation Practices ◽  
The Way

Overconsumption is fueled by the idea that the more people buy, the happier they become; however, this is not compatible with sustainability and the future of the planet. Deep concerns about the sustainability of nature and natural resources give rise to discussions of sustainable consumption, and social innovation applications may lead the way to sustainable consumption. Thus, this chapter aims to provide a picture of social innovation practices in services for sustainable consumption in an emerging economy. Although the chapter focuses mainly on contemporary social innovations, an overview of the social innovation concept and possible historical roots of social innovations from Turkish history are also provided.

Qasab: Kutch Craftswomen’s Producer Co. Ltd.

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (02) ◽  
pp. 255-277
Author(s):  
Shweta Mittal ◽  
Vishal Gupta ◽  
Manoj Motiani
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Social Entrepreneur ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Traditional Art ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Venture ◽  
The Impact

The ‘Qasab’ case is designed to teach students about the characteristics of social entrepreneurship and the impact it has on the society. It also describes how sustainable development and social innovation are interlinked. ‘Qasab’ was an organization whose main focus was to preserve the traditional art of the Kutch region. The case describes the genesis and the journey of ‘Qasab,’ how it preserved the traditional art forms, and the personality traits of Pankaj Shah (the social entrepreneur who started ‘Qasab’). The case talks about the problems faced by the artisans in the region, which led to the formation of this social venture. Also, it touches upon the HR challenges faced by a social entrepreneur. At the time this case was written, ‘Qasab’ had become a collective enterprise comprising 1,200 rural master craftswomen from 11 ethnic communities spread across 62 villages in the arid interiors of Kutch and has been formally structured and registered as a ‘Producer Company’ owned by traditional craftswomen. ‘Qasab’ included different communities such as — ‘Mutwa’, ‘Sodha Rajput’, ‘Jat-Daneta’, ‘Meghwal’, ‘Sindhi Memon’, ‘DhebariyaRabari’, ‘KacchiRabari’, ‘Ahir’, ‘Halepotra’, ‘Sumra,’‘Hingorja’ and ‘Pathan’ — that had distinct embroidery styles and emphasized maintaining these styles (since the embroideries were an integral part of their cultural identity) — to preserve their unique identities. ‘Qasab’ was known for its outstanding quality of authentic Kutch embroidery, appliqué and patchwork products, its hallmark being traditional motifs reflecting the cultural identity of each community in contemporary designs through items of premium quality. ‘Qasab’ had made artisans stakeholders in the organization and was able to preserve the distinct art of each community. The case is based on the theme of social entrepreneurship and analyzes the process of the emergence of such enterprises, their importance and the factors that lead to their success and sustainability. Students can assess how these organizations are different from other types of organizations. The case should help students to find the parameters that show that social innovation and sustainable development are interlinked. The case can be used to study the business model of social innovation.

scholarly journals Analisis Intensi Kewirausahaan Sosial Mahasiswa Program Studi Administrasi Bisnis

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-34
Author(s):  
Ivon Sandya Sari Putri
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Business Administration ◽  
Social Entrepreneur ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government

Social entrepreneurship is kind of business process that creates product or services which needed by society and/or environment and one of the solution to help the government to solve many kinds of social problems such as health, education, and environmental problems. The purpose of this research is to identify the degree of social entrepreneurship intention of the student in the business administration program. The questionnaire is distributed to 100 respondents. The result shows that the intention of social entrepreneurship from students in the business administration program is high (M= 3.6). The personal characteristics that support the social entrepreneur such as agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and extraversion has a higher degree than other personal characteristics. Those characteristics have a positive impact on the social entrepreneurship intention of students in the business administration program.

How social entrepreneurship can contribute to upscale social innovation practices?

2022 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
Theories Of Change ◽  
Innovation Practices

In this paper, we address the research question of to what extent is it possible to discern theories of change being built into the business practices of nascent social enterprises in ways that lay foundations for the subsequent upscaling of their social innovations? We argue that social enterprises that are ‘ready-to-upscale’ are those that clearly produce a solution to an underlying problem, and where their activities are clearly derived from the underlying problem, and also those activities clearly connect forward to deliver consistent solutions. We apply a Theories of Change approach to the concept of social entrepreneurship as a means of setting a criterion for ‘ready-to-upscale’, studying six Sri Lankan micro-social enterprises in which we can trace stories of impact. This provides a means to develop a model of the ways that social entrepreneurship creates the foundations for structural changes that reduce systematic inequalities, and offers social enterprise funders a framework to better stimulate emergence of social enterprises ready-to-upscale and deliver social innovation.

scholarly journals Exploring enabling resources for place-based social entrepreneurship: a participatory study of Green Care practices in Finland

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 437-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Moriggi
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Intangible Assets ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Care Practice ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
Research Activities

Abstract Enabling resources are the array of tangible and intangible assets that social entrepreneurs mobilize or create to bring forward novel place-based initiatives, to respond to unmet sustainability challenges and ideally contribute to virtuous processes of socio-economic transformation. Understanding the role of resources in constraining or enabling the development of social enterprises holds important implications not merely for the initiatives, but also for the places where they are embedded. Existing studies fail to provide a comprehensive, empirically grounded account of resources for place-based social entrepreneurship. This paper aims to fill this gap, by exploring the array of resources that enable and constrain the development of Green Care practice, i.e., nature-based activities with a social innovation purpose. Three communities of Finnish practitioners—a nature-tourism company, a care farm, and a biodynamic farm—were involved over the span of 3 years in research activities conducted with an in-depth qualitative approach. Participants were engaged in several stages of iterative learning combining conventional and action-research methods: semi-structured interviews, participatory mapping, and a co-creation workshop. Results show that entrepreneurs resort to a great variety of enabling resources, inclusive of both tangible and intangible assets, that are only marginally considered by relevant literature. Based on these findings, the paper proposes a novel set of enabling resources, comprehensive of nine clusters: infrastructural, institutional, material, place-specific, organizational culture-related, social, ethical, affective, and competence-related. Two concluding insights can be inferred: understanding resources is paramount to grasp possibilities and challenges of place-based entrepreneurship; in-depth participatory processes are needed for a thorough and grounded investigation of enabling resources in places.

Understanding the ecosystem of microfinance institutions in India

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-261
Author(s):  
Debapratim Purkayastha ◽  
Trilochan Tripathy ◽  
Biswajit Das
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Ecosystem Model ◽  
Microfinance Institutions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Essential Step ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government

Purpose This paper aims to build upon the various studies conducted on the ecosystem and expands the understanding of the ecosystem of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in India. The discussions in this essay entail a literature review that analyzes the discourse on the ecosystem of MFIs, and based on this an attempt has been made to conceptually design a model for the ecosystem of MFIs in India. Design/methodology/approach The authors design the “Indian microfinance ecosystem model” based on the actors in the broader financial ecosystem (Bloom and Dees, 2008; Ledgerwood and Gibson, 2013) and the capital infrastructure and the context-setting factors of the social entrepreneurship ecosystem (Dees et al., 2008) that best describes the Indian MFI scenarios. Findings The ecosystem of MFIs in India is found to be very complicated. The interactions among numerous actors – who are core product or service providers, facilitators, client, beneficiaries, resource providers, competitors, complementary organizations, regulators, opponents and influential bystanders. The authors also observed that the capital infrastructure and context-setting factors such as policy, politics, media, economic and social conditions are equally crucial for the MFIs to survive and flourish. Moreover, the ecosystem is also dynamic and could change with the environmental conditions and entry of new entrants into the ecosystem. Research limitations/implications Understanding the ecosystem of MFIs from the strategic perspective would also be of interest to stakeholders such as donors, investors, banks, government and so on. For MFIs, knowing their place in the ecosystem is an essential step in determining their strategy. Practical implications Understanding the elements of the ecosystem would help MFIs to assess whether they have achieved the minimum critical environmental conditions in the ecosystem for their business model to succeed. Social implications Better understanding of the ecosystem will help create social benefits through better service delivery to the low-income population. Originality/value Expands the existing business ecosystem literature by extending it to the social policy, social entrepreneurship and more specifically to the microfinance sector. Fills a void in ecosystem literature by designing a comprehensive ecosystem model of MFIs in India. Understanding the ecosystem would help market system actors and facilitators to understand what they have to do to achieve their objectives of participating in the ecosystem. Knowing their place in the ecosystem is an essential step in determining what they should do and how they should do it. In addition to MFIs, it could have important implications for policymakers, particularly the government, that are trying to achieve financial inclusion.

Social innovation and SONO filter for drinking water

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jashim Uddin Ahmed ◽  
Wahida Shahan Tinne ◽  
Md. Al-Amin ◽  
Maliha Rahanaz
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Pure Water ◽  
Inorganic Arsenic ◽  
Social Benefit ◽  
Social Business ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government

Purpose Bangladesh is facing an alarming situation with the drinking water in its most areas, as groundwater used for drinking has been contaminated with naturally occurring inorganic arsenic. Many entrepreneurs along with the government are trying to cope up with this problem. SONO filter is one of them that is based on the social innovation concept. Social innovation is defined as innovative products/services motivated by the goal of meeting a social need, with the opportunity to create new social collaborations. This paper aims to examine the concepts of social innovation, which advocates enhancing values to society and the social benefit to all the stakeholders. Design/methodology/approach This is an exploratory study and presents the evolution, the development of the social business model and its implementation. Abul Hussam initiated the social business concept through SONO filter that is commercialized through the Manob Sakti Unnayan Kendro. The study has been conducted entirely on the basis of documentary information and data available in the public domain. Findings The findings show a hopeful contribution toward enhancing social benefits to society especially in arsenic-affected areas. SONO filter helps to mitigate the water-borne diseases and make people clean and safe, as well as healthy, by providing pure drinking water. Even by drinking pure water, people with arsenic-related diseases are getting better day by day through this social initiative. Originality/value Business based on social innovation is a new and really a good working concept. It has faced many hurdles in its journey to meet social objectives. Many researchers, entrepreneurs, non-profit organizations, national planners and society leaders will surely be benefited by its solution.

A transaction-based approach to social innovation

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 231-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karim Ben Slimane ◽  
Wadid Lamine
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The Social

This article aims to provide a transaction-based approach to social innovation based on the three modes of transaction coordination and governance as identified by Powell. We produce a grid that explains how social innovation can be implemented in the market, in hierarchies or in networks. This work makes a number of theoretical contributions. First, it provides an integrative framework of social innovation that is firmly rooted in organization theory. Second, we introduce two new concepts: social entrepreneurship orientation and the social innovation ecosystem, believing that these concepts can contribute to a better understanding of the field of social innovation in the context of sustainable development.

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