This book report should help the readers to mind the gap and leads social entrepreneurs into social impact assessment through a better knowledge of models that could support them in driving the process of being a social entrepreneur. It addresses entrepreneurs’, managers and practitioners who might encounter this issue in their everyday work. Aside from entrepreneurs, this book report should also help the scholars and academics, who can further develop and improve their knowledge about the social entrepreneurship. First of all, you need to learn what social entrepreneurship means. Social Entrepreneurship is just like an entrepreneurship that the mission is to generate wealth and entrepreneurs’ personal wealth. However, Social Entrepreneurship …show more content…
Aside from those things, the people should find an appropriate response to climate change and the decreasing of natural resources. The emergence of new needs is what the social entrepreneurs need to find a solution by creating an innovative idea on solving these problems. An entrepreneur finds an alternative approach to sustainable development which changes their entrepreneurial behavior and practices within the context of social rather than personal gain which makes them a social entrepreneurship. Aside from that, Social Entrepreneurs need to be market oriented in order to survive in the business world. Being a market oriented means to be able to adopt on people’s behavior, new trends, and changing place in order to address those needs. Being a social entrepreneur means that you need to know how to adapt in the market in order to create a strategy. Being a market oriented has played a significant role on the phenomenon of social economy. The term social economy is different from social market economy because this both term can get the people easily confused with these two terms. Social economy is defined as part of the economy that works alongside the market and the state. It is also a set of organizations that …show more content…
The common definition of a social enterprise is an organization that creates a social value rather than their own personal gain. Lastly is the innovative approach of social entrepreneur, it is said that a social entrepreneurs is an innovative solutions which could also means as a disruptor. The role of innovation in defining a social entrepreneur is a social entrepreneur is an individual, group, organization and alliance of organizations that seeks sustainable , large scale change through pattern – breaking ideas in what or how governments, non – profit and business do to address significant social problems as stated by Light. The next path of social entrepreneurs is its future development. The two main paths focused on the need to find a way to measure the phenomenon of social entrepreneur to really know the future development of a social entrepreneur. Measuring it means on finding a way to assess the performance of social enterprises because it has a huge potential to generate impact at the societal, environmental and economic levels. It is the social enterprises mission to solve social problems; they must be sure on the actual achievement of their organizations. One way to measure its achievement is through the social impact assessment but measurement of performance at social levels is one of the most
Annotated Bibliography Bakshi, M. (Producer), & Miller, B. (Director). (2011). Moneyball [Motion Picture]. United States .
I began college in 2014 at the age of 58 years-old to change my area of employment and do something that is far more interesting to me, working within the social services field. I realize the fact I was brought up by two dysfunctional, abusive parents in a chaotic home lead me to search out that same type of familiar relationship when I left home at the age of seventeen. In short, I married a domestic violence abuser and alcoholic when I was 19 years-old and had 5 children. Ten years into the marriage, when I had finally reached the end of my rope, a local police officer helped me to obtain a Protection from Abuse order and removed my husband from the home. This era was the birth of the Protection from Abuse orders and for me and this new
At Miller Children Hospital in Long Beach I have developed certain skills that are necessary in order to go into the Human Services Career. At Miller I have learned how to communicate with different people, learn how to take things not seriously, and how to not let my emotions get in the way of assisting children and family. When I go back and think about my first semester of internship I remember how difficult it was to open up to different people and build rapport with them. I remember being quite, nervous, and questioning my abilities in the Human Service career. Throughout my internship I have become more confident I am able to open up to people without being intimidated.
Modern day businesses have to be socially responsible; actions are taken to satisfy customers who might have a cause that they care deeply. Social responsibility occurs when a person or a company acts in an ethical and sensitive way towards important social issues of the day such as economic, environmental, and cultural concerns. Many businesses have a section of their website or business literature dedicated to social responsibility. Companies proudly detail the steps they are taking to address concerns that people have with the environment and economic issues. Having companies act in a socially responsible way is necessary because their actions have a tremendous positive impact on society.
As a market entrepreneur, it takes a foundation of fundamentals that innovates the available resources into industrializing society. Political entrepreneurs use more of what the government can subside into creating the production of advancing technologies such as steel, oil, steamboats, and railroads. The real “Robber Barons” fell under the impression of the political entrepreneur as they were more towards their gains through the government than actually made improvements to the products that were made to create a booming industry. Their work in society reflected the determination to further advance the industries and make them prosper as whole and offer more opportunities for other people to utilize the expansion of
Becoming a business entrepreneur comes from the idea of modernizing. Controversially, the Ku Klux Klan and the prohibition of alcohol are examples of maintaining the country. Barton’s story transitions from the culture wars into the modernized world, starting with the Harlem Renaissance, where for the first black artist were freed from their constrains and could become writers and actors. This lead to performances and pieces of literature that were written by black people about their experiences during slavery. (Foner,
Hello, I am Jakeline Guerrero Hernandez and I am just going to tell you a little bit about myself. I will begin with my academics, so last year I was part of the Jump Start program in which I got to complete my first year of my associate’s degree while still in High School. This semester I am taking some courses at the campus as well as online. This will be my first time taking online courses so if any of you have any suggestions they are greatly appreciated. I decided to take this course because I had Kim as my Jump Start professor for history and really enjoyed her class she definitively has a way of making history interesting and fun.
Ethical and Socially Responsive Business Bruce Carter Principles of Management – MGMT 3101 Dr. Yolanda Ogletree January 24, 2018 As legally required The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated has a Code of Ethics and Code of Code of Business Conduct. The Code of Ethics and Code of Business Conduct assures compliance with the Sarbanes – Oxley Act for companies whose stock is publicly traded. The Code of Ethics and Code of Business Conduct also assures the success of The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated. The implementation of the Code of Ethics and Code of Business Conduct is pertinent to being an ethically and socially responsive business. There are many key significant areas of the Code of Ethics and Code of Business Conduct.
My passion for helping and supporting those whose economic and financial standings have hindered their growth in our society, has driven me towards social work. I feel I have exhausted every possible avenue in my current degree field. Pursuing a master’s in Social Work, will give me the diversity that I need, while aiding me in bringing my dreams of working more in depth with clients, by helping assist them with their individual needs and issues to reality. The Social work field also offers versatility which allows me to work in many dimensions, such as clinical, case management, and many other composites which enables me to help every population. Becoming a social worker gives me other benchmarks in which I can use to evaluate programs,
The Profession of Social Work as a Career Goal Graduating from high school, I have always had a passion working with kids. I never put into thought exactly what I wanted to do with kids, all I knew was that I wanted to work with kids. At first, my career choice was to become a midwife. There were several complications down the road, in which I could no longer pursue that career choice.
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY As we defined above that social responsibility is to protect and enhance well-being of living things. Every organization is socially responsible to protect the environment and they can do there much which is legally required for the organizations. The very first social responsibility of every business is that to earn enough profit to meet his expenses. If the firm cannot earn profit no social need and social responsibility can be met by the firm the firm fails.
Profit-Oriented or Socially Responsible? 2 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) plays a crucial role in organizations and societies. Traditionally, CSR is a management concept that has been implemented by most of the listed companies around the world. CSR is implemented by companies to be responsible for the company’s consequences on the environment and social welfare in their business operations and interactions with their stakeholders (Unido, n.d). In the other words, CSR is a program that benefits both society and business that do not provide immediate financial benefit to the company but environmental change and positive social (Investopedia,
Being socially responsible is the idea that businesses should balance profit-making activities with activities that balance benefit society; it involves developing businesses with a positive relationship to the society which they operate. Social responsibility is an ethical theory, in which individuals are accountable for fulfilling their civic duty but the actions of an individual must benefit the whole of society. Social and civic responsibility should be an automatic thing that should come to people’s minds when trying to improve society. The main concept of social responsibility is that every individual, has to perform so as to maintain a balance between the economy and the ecosystems.
Therefore, there is a great deal of overlap between those who engage in philanthropic model for reputational reasons and those who follow the economic view of business' social
Entrepreneurship in the Philippines is currently booming and one of the best things a person can do today is start taking action in putting up its own business or acquiring a franchise (Louren, 2017). Entrepreneurship is a state of mind. It is not identified or measured with the type of business a person is in the success of that business but rather it is the total way of life for entrepreneurs. Being an entrepreneur requires distinct personality traits such as having a risk-taking personality, need for achievement, internal focus of control, tolerance for ambiguity and having a type A behavior or striving to achieve more in less time and general competitiveness (Gilles and Mondejar, 2008). Entrepreneurship has been described as the “capacity and willingness to develop, organize and manage a business venture along with any of its risks in order to make a profit” (www.businessdictionary.com).