This document provides an overview of key concepts related to social entrepreneurship including definitions of social enterprise, social business, social innovation, and social entrepreneurship. It discusses characteristics of social entrepreneurs and provides examples of different types of social enterprises. Forms of capital that can be leveraged through social enterprises are explored. The document also covers identifying social opportunities, strategies for addressing opportunities, developing a theory of change, and factors that can lead to social entrepreneurial behavior. Overall, the document serves as an introductory guide to understanding the landscape of social entrepreneurship.
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Contents
• What is a social enterprise?
• What is a social business?
• What is social innovation?
• What is social entrepreneurship?
• Types and Examples of Social Enterprise
• Forms of Capital
• Opportunity Identification
• Theory of Change
• Wrap-Up
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Who is an entrepreneur?
• Opportunity Identifier
• Risk Taker
• Creating marketable products out of nothing
• Innovating from available resources better than
peer group
• Proactive
• Autonomous and Independent
• Dreamer
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ENTREPRENEUR
Brings a radically new
solution with the potential to
revolutionize a whole area
Has all the qualities of an
entrepreneur :
Vision, pragmatism,
creativity…
SOCIAL
Adresses most crucial
problems of our society in
the fields of health,
education, human rights,
environment…
Seeks Social Impact, does
not use economic profit as a
measure of success
Social
Entre-
preneur
Who is a Social Entrepreneur?
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What is a Social Enterprise?
• Address a social issue using business
proposition
– Fair Trade :: ethical wages
– Organic Farming :: environmental
degradation
– Ethical Trading :: Promotes ethical trading
practices
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EMES Definition of Social
Enterprise
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Three indicators reflect the economic and entrepreneurial dimensions of
social enterprises:
a) A continuous activity producing goods and/or selling services
b) A significant level of economic risk
c) A minimum amount of paid work
Three indicators encapsulate the social dimensions of such enterprises:
d) An explicit aim to benefit the community
e) An initiative launched by a group of citizens or civil society organizations
f) A limited profit distribution
Finally, three indicators reflect the participatory governance of such
enterprises:
g) A high degree of autonomy
h) A decision-making power not based on capital ownership
i) A participatory nature, which involves various parties affected by the activity
Source: EMES Website
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Dividend/ No-Dividend View
on Social Enterprise by Yunus
• Why do you create an enterprise?
• What do you do with the profits made
from an enterprise?
• Who owns the enterprise?
• Why is ownership important to you?
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Types of Social Enterprise
• For-Profit Social Enterprise
• Non- Profit Social Enterprise
• Sustainable Social Enterprise
• Community Based Social Enterprise
• Cooperative Social Enterprise
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Sound Bytes 6 (Bill 1)
“Social entrepreneurs are not happy
to give a fish, or teach how to fish.
They will not have a rest until they
have revolutionized the fishing
industry.”
— Bill Drayton
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“If I have a chance to meet someone who is different and have an
exchange which is not based on prejudices, is not based on
stereotypes, not based on clichés, not driven by pity, suddenly
something happens.”
Andreas Heinecke
Founder & CEO
Insight:
The best way to create conditions for and
open exchange and change sighted people’s
views about the capabilities of blind people
is to immerse sighted people in total
darkness and let blind people act as their
guides.
Dialogue in the dark
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Dialog in the Dark is an experiential exhibition in the
dark. Darkness as a medium to enable sighted people
better understand what blind people experience.
Dialogue in the Dark creates conditions for and open exchange
and transforms individuals.
A dialogue is created by
using blind people as
guides in the darkness.
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Dialogue in the Dark has been presented largely through
exhibitions and workshops in over 30 countries and
more than 160 sites in over 110 cities throughout
Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas
since it’s opening in 1988.
7 Million visitors have experienced Dialogue in the Dark
worldwide.
Over 7,000 blind candidates have found employment
through Dialogue in the Dark.
Learn more about Dialogue in the Dark:
http://www.dialogue-in-the-dark.com/
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Forms of Capital
• Money
• Public Capital
• Social Network Capital
• Nature as Capital
• Culture as Capital
• Art as Capital
• Health
• Humanity
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Money as Capital
• What can you buy from Money?
– Food
– House
– Education
– Happiness
– Respect
– Luxury Products
– Start a company
– Higher People to run your company
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Social Capital Benifits
• The more people you know the more
opportunities you have
• The more kind of people you know the
more opportunities you have
• The more open you are to different
people the more opportunities you
have
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Social Opportunity
• Social Disequilibrium
• Social Movements
• Normal Markets
• Within a group of Social Enterprises in
a similar industry
• National and International Policy
towards certain Business Practices
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Strategies to address Social
Opportunity
• Causation
– Followers like SKS Microfinance or
Compartamos
– Nokia Microsoft SmartPhone Series
• Effectuation
– Mahatma Gandhi
– Yunus and Grameen Bank
– Iphone Series 60
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Causation Effectuation
Begin with a goal in mind Beginning with a set of given means
Focusing on returns than idea alone Focusing on Affordable loss to
innovation or start something new
Emphasizing competitive analysis Emphasizing on strategic alliances
Emphasizing market analysis Leveraging environmental
contingencies
Avoiding environmental
contingencies
Seeking to understand and evaluate
the uncertainties
Predict uncertainties
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Sharada and Iyer, ESU 2014
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Theory of Change
• Every Social Enterprise has a theory of
Change
– Number of Jobs created
– Salary increased
– Quality of education delivered
– Improvement in health-care delivery
– Impact on environment
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Institutional environment
Social Public regulatory investor
Comme
rcial
Legitimacy, Reputation, Mission, Vision, Objectives,
Sustainability
Organizational
Maintenance, Expansion and Transformation
Identity construction, Memory, Power, Degree of
coupling
What is a social enterprise
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How to create a social
enterprise
• Find your capital
• Find your opportunity : convert one
capital into another capital
• Find your theory of change
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