se-business-support-strategy
‘Time to Deliver: A Social Enterprise Business Support Strategy for London‘ provides a comprehensive and dynamic approach to building up and funding support from mainstream businesses for social enterprises and financing enterprises. The strategy was developed by the London Social Economy Taskforce, which brings together London’s key social economy players including the Government Office for London, London Development Agency, Business Link for London, the Association of London Government, and the group’s chair organization Social Enterprise London. The strategy includes a program of quality standards for support services and the development of a Social Enterprise Knowledge Centre. The strategy also has plans for the implementation of a number of innovative projects designed to harness social enterprise opportunities within specific industry groups and across the voluntary and public sectors.
se-in-eastern-uk
The aim of this research was to identify the number of active social economy organizations in the Eastern Region of the UK, what areas of the region, what business sectors and in what types of structure these organizations are operating and the total size of the workforce and turnover. It also sought to establish from where they obtain business support, what issues they face regarding staff recruitment, retention and training and opportunities for future growth.
The research had three phases: compiling a comprehensive database of all the identified social enterprises in the region, sending out a postal questionnaire to all identified enterprises, and conducting telephone interviews with a sample group of respondents.
nkc_entrepreneurship
Given the increasing significance and visible impact of entrepreneurship in wealth-creation and employment -generation, the National Knowledge Commission of India considers it critical to the country’s growth and development. It has undertaken this study to explore factors that have advanced entrepreneurship in India and also various other factors that could further encourage and facilitate even further growth.
guidance_mapping_se
This guidance has been developed in response to the lack of a comprehensive and consistent evidence base to support the on-going growth of the social enterprise sector at an UK national level, as acknowledged in ‘Social Enterprise: A Strategy for Success‘ in July 2002. This guidance is designed to be of practical help in undertaking social enterprise mapping across a range of geographical scales and for any purpose. Good practice pointers and recommendations are based on the experience of 33 mapping studies which have all attempted to map social enterprise to some extent, as well as extensive consultation within the social enterprise sector.
global-entrepreneurship
This report constitutes the ninth annual assessment and review of entrepreneurial activity and entrepreneurial perceptions in countries participating in the GEM project. Since the first report was published in 1999 by scholars at Babson College and London Business School, GEM has developed into one of the world’s leading research consortia concerned with improving our understanding of the relationships between perceptions of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial activity, and national economic growth. To this end, the project has, from the start, been designed as a multinational, harmonized research program providing annual assessments of the entrepreneurial sector for a range of countries.
indigeneous-land-rights-entrepreneurship-and-economic-development-in-canada-anderson-dana-and-dana
Indigenous people are struggling to reassert their nationhood within the post-colonial states in which they find themselves. Claims to their traditional lands and the right to use the resources of these lands are central to their drive to nationhood. Traditional lands are the ‘place’ of the nation and are inseparable from the people, their culture, and their identity as a nation. Traditional lands and resources are the foundation upon which indigenous people intend to rebuild the economies of their nations and so improve the socioeconomic circumstance of their people-individuals, families, communities, and nations. This paper explores business development activities that flow from the latter aspect of indigenous land rights in a Canadian context, suggesting that the process is a particular and important instance of social entrepreneurship.
setypology
This typology breaks down the traditional boundaries between the nonprofit and private sectors and draws definition to this new institutional animal-part business-part social-the social enterprise. In doing so, the typology explores how institutions have combined a mix of social values and goals with commercial business practices and how they have come up with ownership models, income and capitalization strategies, and unique management and service systems designed to maximize social value. The illustrative typology classifies different models of social enterprise in order to navigate readers through the currently ill-defined, diverse and dynamic landscape of this emerging field.
This typology is an outgrowth of a paper commissioned by the Inter-American Development Bank in 2003 entitled: “Social Enterprise: A Typology of the Field Contextualized in Latin America.” For this reason many of the examples are from Latin America, however, social enterprise models are applicable worldwide.
social-entrepreneurship-research-mair-and-marti
Social entrepreneurship, as a practice and field for scholarly investigation, provides an unique opportunity to challenge, question, and rethink concepts and assumptions from different fields of management and business research. This article puts forward a view of social entrepreneurship as a process that catalyzes social change and addresses important social needs in a way that is not dominated by direct financial benefits for the entrepreneurs. Social entrepreneurship is seen as differing from other forms of entrepreneurship in the relatively higher priority given to promoting social value and development versus capturing economic value. To stimulate further research the authors introduce the concept of embeddedness as a nexus between theoretical perspectives for the study of social entrepreneurship.
the-world-of-a-social-entrepreneur
The term “social entrepreneurship” is being adopted and used more extensively, but its meaning is not widely understood. In particular, the scope of social entrepreneurship in both business and the voluntary sector has not been mapped effectively. This paper seeks to do this. It begins by defining social entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurship. Then, using projects considered for a charter award under the Duke of York’s Community Initiative, it looks at what social entrepreneurs do and achieve for the community, at the wide scope of their world, and at the help that is available and needed. The paper includes two case studies of successful social entrepreneurs as a means of drawing out a number of important issues and lessons. It provides a new map for understanding the complexity and the many facets of the world of the social entrepreneur and the voluntary sector. It questions whether the UK government’s stated desire for an “explosive act” of volunteering can happen without more substantial support, and concludes that whilst the growth of this sector is urgent and vital, a number of hurdles remain to be overcome.
social-entrepreneurship-a-new-look-at-the-people-and-the-potential
This article considers the crucial role of private sector social entrepreneurship in the context of a state welfare system stretched beyond its means. Defines social entrepreneurship, recounts a number of key points from relevant research projects, reflects upon current developments and initiatives, describes a number of cases and uses these to draw a set of tentative conclusions about social entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurship in the context of the current government’s aim of fostering rapid growth in the sector. Concludes that while such growth is highly desirable, a number of hurdles have to be overcome.
