Social Entrepreneurship Book Report

Tolentino, Willem Christopher T. 4TE-2

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SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP BOOK REPORT

“SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR DUMMIES” It’s funny how I chose this book because I was going to lend it from the library and the librarian told me that graduating students cannot borrow books anymore. So I took a picture of the title and found myself a PDF file of this book. At first I was hesitant to use this book as my book report for social entrepreneurship because it said “Social Entrepreneurship for Dummies”. I looked into the first few pages and it was a good book so I decided to use it. It is a book written by Mark Durieux and Robert Stebbins. They have a line of books that end in “for dummies”. I love how the book was written because it was obviously for

Social entrepreneurship is an organization because it takes careful planning, organizing, and forming a group’s identity. Lastly, social entrepreneurship is a society because entrepreneurs look to help a society in an area. Also in the first chapter, there are many stories that the authors used as an example to motivate us readers. Social Entrepreneur for Dummies tackles all the requirements in putting up a social business. It is a step by step process that the book thoroughly explains, everything from if social entrepreneurship is calling for you to planning, strategizing, organizing, and implementing to creating one’s own brand to how to manage a social business to the mistakes one social entrepreneur should avoid when starting a social business. In chapter three, the book talks about what motivates social entrepreneurs and there are six kinds: altruism, community engagement, generosity, compassion/sympathy, leisure, and volunteerism. Altruism is the unselfish pursuit of the well-being and interests of others. There are also two kinds of altruism: pure and relative altruism. Pure altruism is the perfect form of