A Career As A Social Entrepreneur

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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

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