Connectivity, Social Venture Creation, and Income Inequality: An Opportunity Structure Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
pp. 13734
Author(s):  
Li Sun ◽  
Peiyi Jia ◽  
Chao Guo ◽  
Jipeng Qi
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Venture Creation ◽  
Opportunity Structure ◽  
Social Venture

Designing With Purpose: Advocating Innovation, Impact, Sustainability, and Scale in Social Entrepreneurship Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill Kickul ◽  
Lisa Gundry ◽  
Paulami Mitra ◽  
Lívia Berçot
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Venture Creation ◽  
For Profit ◽  
The Social ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Social Venture ◽  
Social Ventures ◽  
Innovation Impact

Social entrepreneurship is an emerging and rapidly changing field that examines the practice of identifying, starting, and growing successful mission-driven for-profit and nonprofit ventures, that is, organizations that strive to advance social change through innovative solutions. For educators teaching in this field, we advocate for a design thinking approach that can be integrated into social entrepreneurship education. Specifically, we believe that many of the design thinking principles are especially suitable and useful for educators to facilitate student learning as they create and incubate social ventures. We also advance a broader conceptual framework, which we describe as the four main mega-themes in social entrepreneurship education, namely innovation, impact, sustainability, and scale. We offer ways in which the design thinking steps can be integrated and applied to each of these themes and accelerate the social venture creation process. We conclude by discussing and presenting how design thinking can complement an overall systems thinking perspective.

scholarly journals Social Entrepreneurship and Social Venture in Nepal, Case of Martyrs Memorial Park (Sahid Smarak), Hetauda, Nepal

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-95
Author(s):  
Yam Bahadur Silwal
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Venture Creation ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
Creative Idea ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Venture ◽  
Case Type

This study primarily tried to find out social entrepreneurship practices in Nepal, though this is an young phenomena for scholarly in Nepal. Study followed exploratory case type and selected Martyrs Memorial Park (Sahid Smarak) as a case so that it is a qualitative research. Social entrepreneurship is phenomena about utilization of creative idea of individuals for the society and social benefits through entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial venture creation. Martyrs Memorial Park (Sahid Smarak) is a social venture situated in Hetauda, Bagmati province, Nepal established by social and political personalities. This venture is found as a good practice of social entrepreneurship that generate revenue for the society, providing employment opportunities, utilizing resources, paying tax, contributing to uplift tourism, giving recognition of the area and members of the executive committee and council members as well. This venture became a model for others and many are trying to implement this in another part of the country. Social entrepreneurship process model found which started from social or political person with entrepreneurship intention that converted into entrepreneurial behavior and realize the social venture. Then economic outputs bring transformation in the society and generate social entrepreneurs' personality enrichment

Entrepreneurial Orientation and Social Venture Creation in Nonprofit Organizations

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathrin Lurtz ◽  
Karin Kreutzer
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Venture Creation ◽  
Additional Element ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Social Venture ◽  
Downstream Processes

Although behaving entrepreneurially has become increasingly important for many nonprofit organizations, research on entrepreneurial orientation (EO) lacks a clear understanding of the construct in the nonprofit context. This study examines how EO is shaped on the organizational level of a nonprofit organization and contributes to the creation of a social venture. With a qualitative research design, we explore the role of entrepreneurial elements manifested in the pre-start-up phase of social venture creation according to their importance for upstream and downstream processes. Our findings show how risk taking has a financial and a social dimension and we identify collaboration as a pivotal additional element for social EO along with proactiveness and innovativeness.

Exploring the Personal Drive Behind Small Social-Venture Set-Ups in the Netherlands

2019 ◽  
pp. 75-94
Author(s):  
Ido de Vries
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Ecological System ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Venture Creation ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
Local Municipalities ◽  
Social Venture ◽  
Social Ventures ◽  
Start Ups

This chapter describes the development and growth of small social ventures in the Netherlands. It focusses on the motivations and purposes of owner-operator and micro or small scale social entrepreneurs creating social value in the transition of the Dutch welfare domain. Local municipalities are developing policies to support those social venture set-ups. But dealing with local policies is found not to be an easy task for small scale social entrepreneurs. Two aspects of the hindrance for social venture start-ups are elaborated: the hybridity of social entrepreneurship, combining social value logic and the logic of entrepreneurship; and the difficulties of dealing with different aspects of policies of cities in the Netherlands. An ecological system supportive for small social venture creation respecting the personal purpose of social entrepreneurs is outlined.

Social venture creation and the influence of commercial ventures

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Habib Kachlami
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Market Failure ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Venture Creation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Failure Theory ◽  
Social Venture ◽  
Social Ventures ◽  
The Creation

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand how social and commercial ventures interact with each other. It investigates how the entry, exit and prevalence of commercial ventures in a given region can influence the creation of social ventures. Design/methodology/approach Market failure theory has been used as a framework for analysing the interaction between social and commercial ventures. The results of the theoretical analysis were further empirically examined using a large-scale database covering all 290 municipalities in Sweden from 1990 to 2014 and applying the panel-corrected standard errors method. Findings The results of this study, in general, reveal a competition between social and commercial ventures. Its specific results, however, are related to influences that the entry, exit and prevalence of commercial ventures can have on the creation of social ventures. The study’s results reveal that while the entry and prevalence of commercial ventures in a region negatively influence the creation of social ventures, commercial ventures’ exits have a positive influence. Originality/value Within social entrepreneurship literature, this is the first study that empirically investigates the influence of commercial ventures’ entry and exit on social venture creation and the second study to investigate the influence of commercial ventures’ prevalence on social venture creation. It is also the first of such studies in the Swedish context. The study is also unique due to the large-scale database it uses.

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