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Social Entrepreneurship : Creating new business models to serve the poor

  • The term “social entrepreneurship” (SE) is used to refer to the rapidly growing number of organizations that have created models for efficiently catering to basic human needs that existing markets and institutions have failed to satisfy. Social entrepreneurship combines the resourcefulness of traditional entrepreneurship with a mission to change society. One social entrepreneur, Ibrahim Abouleish, recently received the “Alternative Nobel Prize” for his Sekem initiative; in 2004, e-Bay founder Jeff Skoll donated 4.4 million pounds to set up a social entrepreneurship research center; and many social entrepreneurs have mingled with their business counterparts at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Social entrepreneurship offers insights that may stimulate ideas for more socially acceptable and sustainable business strategies and organizational forms. Because it contributes directly to internationally recognized sustainable development (SD) goals, social entrepreneurship may also encourage established corporations to take on greater social responsibility.

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Document Type:Article
Language:English
Author(s):Johanna MairORCiD, Christian Seelos
Parent Title (English):Business Horizons
ISSN:0007-6813
Publication year:2005
First Page:241
Last Page:246
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2004.11.006
Release Date:2017/08/03
Tag:Business model; Corporate social responsibility; Social entrepreneurship; Sustainability
Volume:48
Issue:3
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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