Social Value and Sociological Perspective on Social Entrepreneurship

2019 ◽  
pp. 21-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdullah Yilmaz ◽  
Hande Ulukapi Yilmaz
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Close Relation ◽  
Social Benefit ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
Social Mission ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Expression

The needs of communities are endless and unlimited like the needs of individuals. Societies have to meet their reasonable set of unlimited needs to sustain their continuity. Otherwise, social problems become unsolvable and these problems that become unsolvable can be sources of other problems. In this sense, social enterprises are the institutions that have emerged in order to meet the needs of the society and to solve the problems. The close relation of social enterprises with society and social structure and the “social” expression in the concept make it necessary to look at social entrepreneurship from a sociological perspective. In this direction, the aim of this chapter is intended to create a sociological perspective on social entrepreneurship that aims to contribute to social order and welfare rather than commercial entrepreneurship serving the purpose of individual or organizational interest in economic sense. In the context of sociological perspective, social problem, social benefit, social mission and vision, social value, social capital, and finally, social change and transformation concepts and their relation with social entrepreneurship are examined.

Coopetition in social entrepreneurship: a strategy for social value devolution

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leandro da Silva Nascimento ◽  
Júlio César da Costa Júnior ◽  
Viviane Santos Salazar ◽  
Adriana Fumi Chim-Miki
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Cooperation Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
Competition Level

PurposeCoopetition is a well-studied phenomenon in traditional enterprises. However, it lacks deepening in the social sphere, specifically on hybrid organizations (social and commercial goals). This paper analyzes the configuration of coopetition strategies in social enterprises and how these strategies can improve social value devolution.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted a multicase study with Brazilian social enterprises and a social incubator. Semistructured interviews with founders of the social enterprises and the president of the incubator were the primary sources of evidence, supported by observations and secondary data.FindingsThe authors identified four main findings: (1) the social incubator induces coopetition among social enterprises; (2) coopetition is necessary to improve market performance; (3) coopetition is a natural strategy resulting from the activity of the social enterprise; (4) the behavior and context of social enterprises generate a new framework for coopetition formation. This framework comprises three stages of value: a social cooperation level to co-creation of value; second, a social competition level to the appropriation of value; and the third coopetition-balanced level to social value devolution.Originality/valueThe authors advance knowledge on coopetition in an exciting, underexplored context, social entrepreneurship. The authors highlight that the coopetition nature and outcome in social enterprises have specificities compared to traditional businesses. The authors also improve the understanding of social value devolution based on simultaneous cooperation and competition among small social enterprises, allowing theoretical and practical implications. Thus, they advance the recurring discussion in coopetition literature beyond the generation and appropriation of value.

When Music Changes, so Does the Dance

2021 ◽  
pp. 262-283
Author(s):  
Gözde Morgül ◽  
Mine Afacan Fındıklı
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Critical Value ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social

This chapter examines the role of social enterprises/entrepreneurs from the perspective of the COVID-19 outbreak and discussed the importance of social entrepreneurship. In this context, answers to the following questions are sought: Did social enterprises/entrepreneurs stand out during the COVID-19 era, particularly the social value they created? Do social enterprises/entrepreneurs perform studies especially for groups experiencing social exclusion during the COVID-19 era? The study based on qualitative research reveals that by producing innovative, fast, and effective solutions social initiatives have won the approval of society. The headlines of leading media outlets published between December 2019 and June 2020 and discourses from social actors confirm the rising critical value of social entrepreneurs.

SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (21) ◽  
pp. 22-35
Author(s):  
Dilber ULAŞ
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Social Entrepreneur ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Social Mission ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Generation

An entrepreneur is an individual who produces goods and services by bringing together the factors of production systematically and consciously. Entrepreneurs take risks to make a profit. A social entrepreneur is a social leader who develops and implements practical solutions to social problems by taking advantage of innovations, original approaches and opportunities. The primary purpose of the social entrepreneur is not to make money. Since the profit made in social enterprises is used above all to achieve the main social goals, the profit generated is a means to the realization of the social mission, not an end. Nowadays, social entrepreneurship will develop with the increase in the number of sensitive young people who want to solve a social problem in the new generation. For the development of social entrepreneurship, children can be taught from a very young age how to develop an idea and solve a problem that needs to be solved. Although there are many examples of entrepreneurial children, not every entrepreneur child has to be a child entrepreneur. It is much more important to develop the necessary minds and skills of children. Care should be taken to ensure that children are happy first, and that they are raised as good people who know the meaning of adding value. While talking about the "entrepreneurial child" issue, the focus should not be on money and it should be discussed what can be done to increase the number of happy children who are sensitive to social issues. The aim of the study is to investigate social entrepreneurship and what can be done for the development of social entrepreneurship in children and young people. Differences related concept of social entrepreneurship, studies on social entrepreneurship in Turkey, applications and the development of social entrepreneurship personality, the factors in the development of entrepreneur children has been evaluated using literature. This study investigates the socially entrepreneurial behavior of children and young people.

How social entrepreneurs focus on maximizing value to communities

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings This research paper examines coopetition strategies for social enterprises. The study's coopetition framework consists of four strategic stages: (1) a social incubator inducing coopetition between social enterprises; (2) coopetition boosting market performance; (3) coopetition emerging naturally from social enterprises' activities; and (4) a coopetition framework for social entrepreneurship being formed. These strategies demonstrate that social enterprises want to increasingly cooperate, but also have to compete with each other for volunteers and to make their products stand out. Ultimately, this balanced coopetition is what maximizes the social value that these enterprises supply to communities. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

scholarly journals INNOVATIVE ACCESS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL ENTERPRISES IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-20
Author(s):  
Marija Magdicheva-Shopova
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Republic Of Macedonia ◽  
The Social ◽  
Innovative Management ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Impact

Social Entrepreneurship is an organized activity aimed at seizing the various opportunities, forms, enterprises and measures in order to create sustainable social values and benefits and employment of persons belonging to marginalized groups of persons, whereby profit is primarily used for employment of socially excluded or vulnerable social groups, as well as to create solutions for the needs and problems in the social community. Modern working conditions force companies to adopt innovative approaches to work in order to make the best use of opportunities. In today's working conditions, and enterprises that perform a certain type of social activity, they face the challenge of continuous monitoring of changes in the operations and successful application of innovations as a prerequisite for growth and development.For the development of social enterprises and social entrepreneurship it is necessary to use the opportunities in the environment and to change certain segments in the organizational systems, to introduce and apply new approaches to sustainable solutions that create a higher social value. The social and professional integration of marginalized workers and other vulnerable groups is one of the possible ways to create a higher social value. The social enterprise, as a legal entity that acts in a particular social economy, is usually not oriented only towards the creation of profits, but it is oriented towards the creation of a social impact by implementing innovative methods for providing goods and services on the market. Differences in the direction of social enterprises and other business enterprises cause differences in the application of innovative management.The aim of this paper is to understand the significance and impact of modern-innovative management for the development of social entrepreneurship and social enterprises in the Republic of Macedonia, as well as emphasizing the need for applying an appropriate methodological approach in creating the necessary management decisions. The subject of research in this paper is focused on perceiving the different business models of social enterprises and the impact of innovative management approach in the development of social enterprises in the Republic of Macedonia.

Understanding the social entrepreneur: a new intentions model for advancing equity, social justice and sustainability

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Miyuri Duncan-Horner ◽  
Megan Anne Farrelly ◽  
Briony C. Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Growth Mindset ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
Enabling Factors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Mission ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
The Social

Purpose Social entrepreneurship (SE) is an emerging social phenomenon gaining tangible traction for its ability to tackle complex social and environmental problems against a backdrop of global sustainability challenges. This paper aims to unpack SE intentions, mindset and motivations to elucidate “why” and “how” social entrepreneurs (SE) initiate, perpetuate and sustain pro-social entrepreneurship activity. It specifically asks why SE do what they do, how they develop and sustain pro-social entrepreneurship action and how these normative drivers affect the social change process. Design/methodology/approach This qualitative research adopts an exploratory multiple case design approach in examining the tacit experience of eight SE tackling complex water, sanitation and environmental challenges in Indonesia, and combines this with scholarly insights from multiple bodies of knowledge. Case studies include six SE recognised by the Ashoka Foundation and two lesser-known “social enterprises” to enable finding patterns across the cases and compare key differences between pro-social and conventional entrepreneurship. Triangulating semi-structured interviews with secondary data analysis and semi-ethnographic fieldwork observations, this paper provides a rich theoretical and empirical basis to understand the emerging transformative potential of SE in tackling a range of sustainability issues. Findings Interviews with eight SE highlighted their intentions to advance inter and intra-generational equity, social justice and sustainability, bringing socially embedded empathetic values and a growth mindset to overcome challenges associated with disrupting existing social order. Direct engagement with the SE revealed 10 critical enabling factors to foster future SE potential, namely, individual background and experience, unmet social needs, empathy, sense of belonging, willingness/passion to alleviate other’s suffering, growth mindset, internal/external catalysts, intrinsic and extrinsic needs, beliefs and goals and declaration of a social mission to ensure consistency in behaviour and action. This demonstrates that while SE are motivated by a variety of self and other-oriented mechanisms, it is ultimately the process of developing empathy, a growth mindset and declaring a social mission that drives and sustains pro-social entrepreneurship action. Practical implications The output of this research is a new intentions model, which outlines the 5 phases of enterprise development and 10 critical enabling factors to foster future SE potential. These insights are critical to leveraging the emerging transformative potential of SE in tackling the world’s most urgent sustainability issues. Social implications The paper presents a deep analysis of data on individual background, experience and characteristics in developing a new SE intentions model. Originality/value The distinct focus on inputs over processes and outcomes answers to a highly elusive topic while offering an alternative approach to understand how SE create remarkably different strategies, processes and outcomes to conventional developmental approaches.

The Practical Intelligence of Social Entrepreneurs: Managing the Hybridity of Social Enterprises

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Byungchae Jin
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Practical Intelligence ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Social Mission ◽  
The Creation

AbstractThe hybridity of social enterprises – that is to say, their simultaneous pursuit of both economic and social value – has increasingly drawn the attention of scholars in the fields of social entrepreneurship and, more broadly, entrepreneurship. To date, there has been significant debate as to whether or how social enterprises are distinct from for- and non profit organizations and whether generating economic rents and achieving a social mission can complement or substitute for each other. To add nuance to this literature, this study focuses on the role of social entrepreneurs’ practical intelligence, seeking to understand how the practical intelligence of social entrepreneurs can contribute to creating both economic and social value. We generally find positive relationships between practical intelligence and the creation of both social and economic value. However, empirical evidence suggests that some dimensions of practical intelligence are closely related to the creation of economic value, whereas others are related to creating social value. Based on the findings, we discuss how practical intelligence can effectively help social entrepreneurs manage the hybridity of their social enterprises.

scholarly journals How Social Entrepreneurs’ Value Orientation Affects the Performance of Social Enterprises in Korea: The Mediating Effect of Social Entrepreneurship

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (19) ◽  
pp. 5341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Changhwan Shin ◽  
Jungkyu Park
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Value Orientation ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Financial Sustainability ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Performance

Efforts have been made to improve the performance of social enterprises through many studies on social entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurship. However, previous studies have conceptualized social entrepreneurship based on researches on commercial entrepreneurs. In addition, the scale used in the analysis of social entrepreneurship focuses primarily on behavioral aspects. Although the social and economic values pursued by social enterprises are important virtues for social entrepreneurs, research on the value orientation of social entrepreneurship is insufficient. The essence of a social enterprise is creating social value based on financial sustainability, so the concept of blended value has been recently emphasized. This study analyzed the relationships among blended value orientation, social entrepreneurship, and the performance of social enterprises. The results indicate that the blended value orientation of social entrepreneurs influenced social entrepreneurship and performance; social entrepreneurship fully mediated blended value orientation and performance. These findings suggest that it is important to focus on the blended value orientation of social entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurship in the promotion and policies of social enterprises.

scholarly journals SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN REGIONAL SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROCESSES

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatyana Grinka
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Social Business ◽  
Social Mission ◽  
The Social ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Basic Features

The article considers a such type of socio-economic activity as social entrepreneurship in the context of ensuring the financial capacity of local communities, as well as in the plane of solving current social problems. Four main approaches to the interpretation of social entrepreneurship are developed. The basic features and differences in comparison with other forms of economic activity are revealed. It was found that unites all these approaches-priority of the social purpose of economic activity and they differ in the breadth of the scope. The paper outlines the manifestations of socio-economic effects of social enterprises. The importance and urgency of starting social enterprises for territorial communities in the conditions of decentralization are substantiated. Three tendencies of the process of formation and development of social enterprises in the regions of Ukraine are indicated, as well as the main directions of support of social business by local self - government bodies. The official statistical information on the social and business sector is analyzed. The decisive feature of social business is the official declaration of its own social mission in regulations. The main barriers and problems of social enterprise development in the regional socio-economic processes of Ukraine are identified and directions for their elimination are proposed. The study concluded that the practical activities of socio-entrepreneurial initiatives often outpace the state response to current challenges, create jobs, generate significant financial capital and investment in state and local budgets. Thus for the successful functioning of social entrepreneurship in regional socio-economic processes, rationally built economic and management mechanisms are needed, and appropriate strategies (ways) to support the development of social enterprises are outlined. However, each community is unique in its geographical, spatial, socio-demographic, natural and resource characteristics, therefore the activities of local governments will largely determine the specific directions of such strategies.

scholarly journals Kewirausahaan Sosial: Studi Kasus PT Kampung Kearifan Indonesia (Javara Indigenious) dan Remaja Mandiri Community (RMC)

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
Maria Dafrosa Naru
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Product Innovation ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Social Mission ◽  
The Social ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Farming Industry

Kewirausahaan Sosial: Studi Kasus PT. Kampung Kearifan Indonesia Dan Remaja Mandiri Community   Maria Dafrosa Naru.1, Aluisius Hery Pratono.2 Fakultas Bisnis dan Ekonomika, Universitas Surabaya, Surabaya, Indonesia [email protected], [email protected]     Abstract This article seeks to understand the principle of social enterprises by exploring the two case studies in Indonesia. This study adopts qualitative approach by exploring two organizations, which aim to promote sustainable farming industry. The findings address four research questions, including how the social enterprises set their social mission, how they develop product innovation, how the governance practices within their organization, and how they promote fair trade. This article extends the discussion for the emerging concept of social enterprise by highlighting the social mission and social innovation.   Keywords: Social entrepreneurship, social mission, product innovation, governance, fair business.  

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