Rural Upliftment and Inclusive Growth through Social Entrepreneurship

Globally, entrepreneurship is expected to play a central role in achieving ‘inclusive growth’. This special issue draws on various developments related to the role of business incubators, academia and social enterprises towards achieving inclusive entrepreneurship, innovation and sustainable growth. A ‘successful entrepreneurship ecosystem’, which includes business incubation is fundamental for promoting economic growth. Over the years, business incubators are increasingly viewed as the facilitators of social inclusion and inclusive growth. Likewise, there has been an increasing focus on how society at large can gain benefit from the research activities of the academia and also how it can promote social and student entrepreneurship. Because of the positive contributions of the social enterprise sector in terms of gross domestic product (GDP), employment and positive social and environmental impacts, social entrepreneurship has gained recognition as a mainstream activity across the world. Consequently, many Asian countries have initiated a range of policies to support social entrepreneurship because of their perceived contributions towards inclusive growth.

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Social Entrepreneurship Research: Past Achievements and Future Promises

Journal of Management ◽

10.1177/0149206318793196 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 45 (1) ◽

pp. 70-95 ◽

Cited By ~ 82

Author(s):

Tina Saebi ◽

Nicolai J. Foss ◽

Stefan Linder

Keyword(s):

Institutional Change ◽

Social Entrepreneurship ◽

Rapid Growth ◽

Levels Of Analysis ◽

Inclusive Growth ◽

Entrepreneurship Research ◽

The Past ◽

Knowledge Growth ◽

Cumulative Knowledge

The past decade has witnessed a surge of research interest in social entrepreneurship (SE). This has resulted in important insights concerning the role of SE in fostering inclusive growth and institutional change. However, the rapid growth of SE research, the emerging nature of the literature, and the fact that SE builds on different disciplines and fields (e.g., entrepreneurship, sociology, economics, ethics) have led to a rather fragmented literature without dominant frameworks. This situation risks leading to a duplication of efforts and hampers cumulative knowledge growth. Drawing on 395 peer-reviewed articles on SE, we (1) identify gaps in SE research on three levels of analysis (i.e., individual, organizational, institutional), (2) proffer an integrative multistage, multilevel framework, and (3) discuss promising avenues for further research on SE.

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Social Entrepreneurship and Inclusive Growth: Attributes, Perceptions and Roles of Business Incubators and Intermediaries in Malaysia

Science Technology and Society ◽

10.1177/0971721819873186 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 24 (3) ◽

pp. 486-506

Author(s):

Angathevar Baskaran ◽

Mingfeng Tang ◽

Thiruchelvam K. ◽

Sharifah Muhairah Shahabudin ◽

Theresa S. Y. Chan

Keyword(s):

Social Entrepreneurship ◽

Social Enterprise ◽

Legal Status ◽

Economic Transformation ◽

Social Enterprises ◽

Primary Data ◽

Inclusive Growth ◽

Business Incubators ◽

Potential Growth ◽

The Social

Social enterprises are considered to be at the heart of inclusive growth due to their emphasis on people and social cohesion that help effect social and economic transformation. In the Tenth Malaysia Plan (2011–2015), two out of ten objectives are on achieving inclusive growth. In this context, this article explores the ecosystem for social enterprises in Malaysia, raising the following research questions: (a) what are the attributes (features) of business incubators (BIs) and intermediaries (IMs) operating in the social enterprise sector in Malaysia? (b) What are the perceptions of BIs and IMs on various aspects of the social enterprise ecosystem in Malaysia? (c) What is the role of BIs and other IMs in fostering social entrepreneurship (SE) in Malaysia in general and meeting the inclusive growth objective of the country in particular? This study employs the qualitative approach and primary data gathered through interviews of six BIs and IMs and twenty social enterprises. This study found that the current social enterprise ecosystem is weak and still emerging and has yet to take a concrete shape. The absence of legal status for social enterprise is the single most important obstacle in unlocking the potential growth of social enterprise sector. This study suggests that the government initiates policy measures to give legal status to social enterprises in the country, in order to develop the ecosystem and facilitate a greater participation of the private sector.

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Social politics puzzling: governance for inclusive growth and social investment

Reframing Global Social Policy ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447332497.003.0013 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Jane Jenson

Keyword(s):

Social Policy ◽

Social Entrepreneurship ◽

Inclusive Growth ◽

Social Investment ◽

Social Politics ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Policy Paradigm ◽

Policy Communities

Analysts of social policy often pay more attention to the content of social policy than to its governance. It is important to assess both. Policy communities currently link the concepts of social investment and social entrepreneurship to advocate both where and how to intervene to ensure inclusive growth.The argument of the chapter is that the explicit linking of these two notions by policy-makers at several scales of authority constitutes an emerging policy paradigm. Despite variation across countries and levels (a characteristic of any paradigm) policy communities proffer the quasi-concepts of social investment and social entrepreneurship in combination as the appropriate ways to govern financing and delivery of social investments and ensure inclusive growth.

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