Social Entrepreneurship - Science topic

Why not, in what field?

Rudo Johns how about something within Entrepreneurology, (the study of the entrepreneur and entrepreneurial behavior) e.g., what are the drivers and motivational factors behind social entrepreneurs, compared to classic entrepreneurs. Here is some material behind the 6th classic archetypes. (www.entrepreneurprofiletest.com)

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With the appearance of a new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) coronavirus called Omicron at the end of November 2021, a key question has arisen: Can a new, mutant coronavirus be completely resistant to the vaccines used so far? Research is ongoing. The answer to this question will soon be known. When considering various scenarios for the future development of the situation, a negative scenario cannot be ruled out. And what if the new variant of the coronavirus can be completely resistant to the vaccines used so far. Can lockdowns be introduced on companies and enterprises operating in specific industries and sectors of the economy as part of the application of systemic anti-pandemic security instruments? And if so, to what extent will anti-crisis, interventionist anti-crisis measures be applied in order to counteract another wave of economic downturn? What instruments of entrepreneurship activation can be used? What do you think about it?

I invite everyone to the discussion,

Thank you very much,

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Dariusz

@Tugkan Bas As per Hayes (2009), it is not necessary to have significant association between X and Y in a mediation model for looking mediation (indirect) effect. There might still be a significant mediating effect of M on the association between X and Y which would called Full Mediation. Kindly refer to page 431 of the attachment for reference. As far as your case is concerned, it seems to be a case of full mediation as total effect becomes significant after the mediation of M on the relationship between X and Y.

Dear Roberto - Minadeo,

Yes. I, too, believe, like you, that academic business incubators are an important source of social and business innovation and entrepreneurship.

Thank you, Regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

Yes, its necessary and with advantages

SMEs are the engine of the economy. These companies need more attention.

Dear,Nida ji

Knowledge management and entrepreneurship

David B. Audretsch, Maksim Belitski, […]Erik E. Lehmann

International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal volume 16, pages373–385(2020)Cite this article

This article might help you

See attachment...we would benefit a great deal If such cooperatives can be initiated in Africa

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Dear Sudha Mavuri , social entrepreneurs have the same personality traits of commercial entrepreneurs, plus they are distinguished by some social traits such as moral obligation, empathy, compassion, sympathy, and so on. This means that social entrepreneurs use the same strategies and methods that used by commercial entrepreneurs beside the prosocial orientation as a primary trait.

Dear Abdo Hasan Al-Harasi, An amazing question that is not easy to answer. In my opinion, during the studies, during the educational process, students should be explained the essence and positive aspects of social entrepreneurship. Within the subject of Entrepreneurship, one should indicate the important role of social entrepreneurship in the context of activating economic growth in the social market economy. It is necessary to indicate the essence and significance of social economic entities, the importance of social aspects in business, corporate social responsibility, environmental social responsibility, etc. as important factors in the development of modern, contemporary developing economies. During their studies, students should learn and complete internships in social enterprises, where human capital is one of the most important production factors. Students should learn about examples of companies developing as startups within social entrepreneurship. Many examples of this type of companies function in technological industries, new Internet media, innovative technologies, research companies operating in marketing, consulting companies operating in support services for human capital development, etc. In addition, students should be indicated the support system from state institutions for business development, startups developed as part of social entrepreneurship, including the system of financial grants and startup funds offered by public institutions, agencies of the ministries of economy and entrepreneurship, and other institutions and economic entities. In addition, the university should develop cooperation with this type of business entities, startup funds, government agencies for business support, chambers of commerce in order to develop the offer of academic business incubators so that students receive support during their studies in the event of a desire to establish their own company, create a startup, a company operating, among others . as part of social entrepreneurship.

Best regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

Dear, Maurice Omondi

Research on social entrepreneurship is still in development, thus there is a considerable room to explore. For example, the specific definition and measurements of social entrepreneurship are still missing, and the determinants of opportunity recognition, motivation, and intention to be social entrepreneur can be investigated by combined theories in this area. In addition, comparative analysis between different type of organizations (hybrid organisations, and ‘non-profit organisations) is considered as a potential research direction in the future.

Both causation (Kotler) and effectuation (Sarasvathy) are very relevant, when it comes to understand marketing management. Advancing research into cognitive biases of managerial marketing process requires a better behavioral understanding of bounded rationality and intuitive reasoning.

https://faculty.wharton.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/2001---effects-of-emotional-and-social-processes-on-bounded-rationality.pdf

In this sense, marketing is much more a (open loop) process than a (closed loop) system, in terms of behavioral interplay between prospective client and offered product in all the bazaars of life.

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Joey,

You seem to be missing a key point necessary for all research. Put simply you have not asked a question!!!

Many relevant and potentially interesting questions spring to mind. However YOUR question should reflect your interests and abilities.

You could simply ask- Do social enterprises support cultural heritage, and if so how?

There are many possible variants around this basic RQ and could reflect what specifically interests you (and probably your supervisor(s)). Some of the other answers to your problem suggest useful specific areas such as handicrafts; but the chiose is wide from cultures to artefacts; from dance to new knowledge industries. Decide what you find intriguing and take it from there.

A good PhD needs to make a decent theory contribution, but there is an enormous scope here. For example, I have always found value generation useful. It seems likely to work in your question too. What values are generated, for whom and how?

Alistair

Crowdfunding is one of the newer ways of funding a startup(s). So, some entrepreneurs put up a detailed description of their businesses on a crowdfunding platform. They mention the goals of their businesses, plans for making profits, how much funding they need and for what reasons and then consumers can read about the business(es) and give money if they like the ideas. Anyone can contribute money toward helping a business that they really believe in. Actually, we can say that there are some business ideas that are perfect for crowdfunding: Original tech gadgets; Independent books; Home cooking tools; Local Service businesses; Unique home inventions and etc.

Dr Barnard,

Without appearing to be pedantic I have to say that what appears to be promising can be both rewarding and can also be far from rewarding. What appears to be lucrative can be negatively influenced by factors not under the control of the entrepreneur and could eventually be unprofitable.

Science-based opportunities can appear promising but may not, or what appears to be non-promising can with the passage of time become very promising in the face of factors not envisaged by the entrepreneur. Emerging technology can be lucrative to the first few entrepreneurs or it may not be. Legions of examples show that. Radical innovation can be promising, again depending upon the environment or it may not. I used to work on AI/ML( artificial intelligence/machine learning) more than 20 years ago. THe ML part could learn things by itself.They were very radical and thought to be a fantasy then. I had also earlier toyed with robotic vacuum-cleaners and robotic chefs and electronic home ( now known today as “smart home”). Today, all of them have become or are becoming commonplace. In my view, time and circumstances are important determinants of entrepreneurial /business success/failure, etc . That said, the discussion can evoke all kinds of views. I look forward to them

Hello dear I am very happy to read the questions and find the answers

@ G S Spais

Valuable suggestions

Entrepreneurship is one of the key competences, and its' basic definition is ''turns ideas into action''. Each learning outcome/teaching goal that enables students to ''turn ideas into action'' is a part of ent. learning.

Hi Raudah,

I think the interview questions should be extended from your research objective. However, I just published an article on the organisational performance of social enterprises in Malaysia and Singapore. Perhaps you could get some idea from the following paper:

Cheah J, Amran A, Yahya S. 2019. Internal oriented resources and social enterprises’ performance: how can social enterprises help themselves before helping others? Journal of Cleaner Production, 211, 607-619. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.11.203

If you need the full text/questionnaire, you may just acknowledge me.

Best of luck and regards,

Jeffrey Cheah

Honestly speaking, if you want to get a validated questionnaire, you must have a good control over past literatures. You may also follow some guidlines to make your questionnaire more valid

1. Do pretest

2. Do pilot test (It is totally different from pretest)

3. You may run EFA to check the poor factor loading (less than .6) and delete those items.

4. Again prepare the questionnaire with those items which confirm good loaded factors.

5. Distribute the questionnaire to get your expected data.

6. Now, run individual CFA and check your data.

Hopefully, you will get better result!!!!

Thanks.

EMES icsem and mix-market are two resources with some global level data

Activating innovation requires that an environment that encourages recreative thinking, sustainability of the business idea. There is need to build a network of groups for synergy building and information sharing. There is also a need to mentor the entrepreneurial disposition of the individual so that he can muster motivation

In 2007, Geoff Mulgan et al. identified entry points for action in a report titled Social Innovation: What It Is, Why It Matters and How It Can Be Accelerated; the catalog of requirements for success featured leadership and structures suited for innovation; finance focused on innovation; policy frameworks that encourage innovation; dedicated social innovation accelerators; national and cross-national innovation pools; and research to enhance learning.

Additional items, "hot topics" as this query terms them, relate to participatory techniques and specific training; citizen involvement and buy-in; systems of cooperation between business actors, local public entities, and civil society and nongovernmental organizations; the recording of good practice from model cases; and new forms of evaluation that give greater attention to social impacts.

Worried about the unemployed youth, Govt. of India is trying to push the youth towards entrepreneurship as jobs created are few and far between. I am a strong advocate of and believe in "Entrepreneurship without innovation has no root and innovation without entrepreneurship has no fruit" (Quote from my book Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation).

A wide spectrum of new programmes and opportunities to nurture innovation have been created by the Government of India across a number of sectors; Atal Incubation Center being one of the great initiative for Innovation and Entrepreneurship..

One of the important factors activating entrepreneurship and innovation is the inclusion of these issues in the curriculum at schools and universities. In this way, one of the developmental barriers can be reduced.

Education is one of the most important determinants of ensuring the country's economic development. It is also one of the forms of public goods, one of the social security categories for which the state is responsible for ensuring and financing at a given basic level. In addition, education in a modern, knowledge-based society, ie in contemporary developed economies, is becoming more and more important. In such economies, education shapes one of the most important factors of production, ie knowledge, information, technology, innovations and entrepreneurship.

I invite you to the discussion

Best wishes

Yes in Brazil, I've coordinated several programs to stimulate entrepreneurship and innovation. In the last 17 years we have carried out several programs to strengthen innovative entrepreneurship, especially in the areas of IT, health, agribusiness. Currently, the region where I worked, Southern Brazil, is recognized as one of the main centers of technology and innovation of the country having an integrated system of innovation, which brings together companies, universities, support entities, financial agents and government.

I have used cognitive maps in qualitative interviews and one thing I suggest thinking about is whether you want to supply the participants with the terms you want them to map, or whether you want them each to used their own approach to the mapping. This is important for the analysis, because if they all use their own unique set of concepts, it will be more difficult to compare the maps. Of course, you can overcome this to some extent by the way to phrase the question and your description of the kind of map that you want them to draw, but the more explicit you become, the closer you get to pre-specifying the terms for the maps.

Some other recommendations would be: use large pieces of paper so they can include as many items as possible; use gridded paper to make it easier to put the items in relationship to each other; and have extra sheets of paper available in case they want to start over.

Overall, my strategy was to have them make the map and then describe it to me in as much detail as possible. In essence, the map serves as stimulus material for the story or stories they tell about it.

I think it's an oxymoron - the concept of entrepreneurial ecosystems (with profit motivation as the central idea that ignites processes) and social entrepreneurship where the extent of motivation for profiteering for the purpose of growth in the social endeavour becomes self contradictory altogether.

Ideally, you should start off with South American social services sector, do some study of existing institutions that have engaged in these ideas. You might wish to expand your search to include multiple countries and then narrow them down to Mexico.

This is what I advise you do:

1. Define the area of social entrepreneurship you wish to pursue, is it micro financing (hot topic of research), infrastructure growth, education and/or a host of other areas. South America is known to have so many co-operatives that keep popping up due to that region's socialist tendencies. Use these ideas.

2. Once you have a area of focus, you should select most popular case studies in these areas, not just out of Mexico, but other countries too. Consider exploring countries like Bangladesh or India or Africa or Indonesia too - you can study these countries for the kind of schemes they have that sustain NGO-driven entrepreneurial ecosystems and then once you find a type you think you can best discuss in your thesis, find the equivalent (or a lack of an equivalent, you can use your thesis to justify) service.

3. Identify your tools and conduct surveys etc. I always think getting data is so very important.

4. Once your data is in, consider explaining your findings/hypotheses accordingly.

PhD is a good way to explore areas, so don't feel daunted, as long as you have an idea about what you want to write about, you should more or less be able to do so - just don't give in to intimidation, discuss with your colleagues and supervisor. Refer to the university's existing libraries for archived theses with similar ideas.

What helps me most is reading published work and theses written by others, it gives you some idea over the theme and direction to take. But choose something you have a solid exposure of and feel passionately about! It's better to write about something you feel strongly about than something you have no interest or knowledge of!

Good luck, hope this helps!

Hi Audrone. Trish Corner and Marcus Ho wrote a good paper in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice in 2010, How Opportunities Develop in Social Entrepreneurship, which identifies that different social enterprise start-up trajectories (eg those established by existing nonprofits, established by communities, established by individual social entrepreneurs) differently influence opportunity recognition. The paper has been widely cited so it would be worth looking at the citations to identify other relevant papers on social enterprise start-up.

You might find the GLOBAL VALUE tool navigator helpful. We collected, screened and categorized over 100 different tools for measuring sustainability performance of companies (it's free): https://www.global-value.eu/navigator.php

One approach that is sometimes used for this kind of research is what is known as "member checking" (Lincoln & Guba, 1985). In that case, you reach tentative conclusions from your earlier interviews, and then invite people back to give your their responses to your interpretations. This is designed to increase the credibility or trustworthiness of your results.

Check these out:

Miller, T. L., Grimes, M. G., McMullen, J. S., & Vogus, T. J. 2012. Venturing for Others with Heart and Head: How Compassion Encourages Social Entrepreneurship. Academy of Management Review, 37(4): 616–640.

Grimes, M. G., McMullen, J. S., Vogus, T. J., & Miller, T. L. 2013. Studying the Origins of Social Entrepreneurship: Compassion and the Role of Embedded Agency. Academy of Management Review, 38(3): 460–463.

Dutton, J. E., Workman, K. M., & Hardin, A. E. 2014. Compassion at Work. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, 1(1): 277–304.

Shepherd, D. A. 2015. Party On! A call for entrepreneurship research that is more interactive, activity based, cognitively hot, compassionate, and prosocial. Journal of Business Venturing, 30(4): 489–507.

Atkins, P. W. B., & Parker, S. K. 2012. Understanding Individual Compassion in Organizations: The Role of Appraisals and Psychological Flexibility. Academy of Management Review, 37(4): 524–546.

I do believe there are ever increasing pile of materials when it comes to this topics. Will try to get back to you if I stumble upon something these days.

Hello Professor Bhowmick,

I would request you to kindly elaborate the question.

Thanks and Regards,

Subhanjan

Social media marketing can be number 1 tool for you as starter. Because, no investment for marketing. Later boost by few investment for payment to social media. Make your company website with seo. Branding is needed.

Stimulating local entrepreneurship talent is one of the best ways. A good approach may be to understand the history of these places, namely if there are natural resources or personality traits that allow these people to create their own business in an area that is familiar to them.

Translating a "bright" theoretical idea into a successful venture means persistent efforts to overcome hurdles. It fits people who have knowledge & mentalities for solving problems. A university degree helps but it does not guarantee success since most of what goes in academic circles is entrenched in fundamental knowledge & basic research more than applied & practical courses.

The article attached in the link is about a man who had a mix of business & academic backgrounds. We can learn from him some tips on how to make it.

Compared to general entrepreneurship, in export entrepreneurship, there can be many constraints and external forces which are beyond the control of the entrepreneur. Especially, influence of macroeconomic factors and the economic stability may be critical

I've seen questions in likert scale. I have something in spanish from a project held in my University years ago. Is it useful for you?

Hi Linda, Kiley Arroyo and I are leading this project. We have just kicked it off and are focusing on a literature review. We will be in touch soon to get your advice.

Tom Johnson

Hi, Phaidon,

It looks to me as though you are proposing to collect self-report data from respondents along three dimensions in a cross-sectional survey. For a study like this, the biggest challenge is developing an adequate theoretical framework for the meaningfulness of the study.

I am certainly no expert in Argentinian political orientation, but you might want to consult George Lakoff's work on political metaphors as it may enrich the theoretical background for your work, especially if you can find a way to apply it to your cultural context.

Data collection, especially if it is done through an online questionnaire, will take a mere 2-3 weeks. And data analysis is fairly straightforward as well - univariate, bivariate, regression.

Good luck with your dissertation!

Andrea, Javier and Stephen, thanks much for you too. These will help.

BR,

Erno

Dear sir, I want develop a biosensor for assessment of age of rice. on this topic i am searching for expertise person or relevant institutions working on this area to guide me. 

Attached is very detailed documentation about the start and growth of a community based organisation for and by black people in South Africa. It is part of this book:  

Sure..U can drop your message at garima@fmsbhu.ac.in

I noted the similarity between best management practices found in excellence models and used in new product development. It would be interesting to explore this further and the results might contribute to strengthening the  global entrepreneurial index. Attached is a presentation I did last year on the topic. If you are interested, I have an automated assessment and reporting system that uses an integrated excellence model that could be used to do the research. 

Hi,

You can take a look at this paper:

Hi,

I´m sending you links to more papers about the subject:

Perhaps, you will find useful one of my previous studies investigating linkages between TNCs and local companies in Poland:

Jeffrey,

Here you go!

Good luck

Robert, 

As you know, nobody claims that I'm an unethical person! So measuring unethical behavior is something impossible using a questionnaire. I recommend you to adopt this scale of Justification of unethical behavior comprising "Displacement of responsibility", "Diffusion of responsibility" and "Attribution of Blame." 

Good luck with your research

In our research on social enterprises in Southern Italy, we have found that women are the most involved in activities dedicated to social servicies for families and similar .

thank you all.

I wish to receive paper comparing start-up from both perspective "top-down with the social entrepreneurs and bottom-up with the agents of change locally-based.

A very interesting perspective put forward here by: however I would simply say that once you experience a situation and then you are into it only then you know what caused it and next time you can better tackle it also. So as per my logic, only the poor villagers know what their real problem is and they would also be able to contribute towards the solution. They don't know the solution but the problem and the cause so the way to get rid of it would be following to it.

Hello Robin Thank you. The debate helps me a lot. A special thanks to Anirudh as well. 

Let me comment what´s going in my country. NGOs are the main institution representing social entrepreneurship and recognized by the government officially. There are a lot of people trying to help the poorest one personally with community development initiative, but the most common pass by the churches (a form of NGO), foundation created by institution with commercial purpose (This one can be seen as a form of corporate social responsibility). Studies talk about more than 10000 NGO in Haiti (Pierre Ezer Pélissier, 2013: Université d’Ottawa). Hearing the debates, seeing the country, the situation of the country remain the same or get worse. Haiti looks like a big challenge for NGO, donors, the international community as whole.

Following, Dees (1998): “social entrepreneurs attack the underlying causes of problems, rather than simply treating symptoms”. This is not the case for many non-profits organizations in this country. A clear example is their intervention after the 2010 earthquake. Many people were living in the capital at the given time, when this bad event happened, they return to their communities. But, the international aid arrived at the capital, in order to receive it, they do back to the same city (accepting the bad living condition). Until today, most of the intervention of the NGO is centered in the capital. Yes, we can talk about the failure of this form of social entrepreneurship because it doesn´t care for the root of the social problems.

Social entrepreneurs appear as promising solution to social problems, so claim Sud et al. (2008), “society tends to view ‘‘new’’ solutions as ‘‘the’’ solution”; we are almost all losing in the SE as solution (scholars, practitioners), but less is written or analyzed about its darkside, failure, poverty penalty. I think the solution is in people themselves, in their institution; as this give place to talk about social and solidarity economy. What is needed is to make investigation and action to see the enterprises of this sector (social or voluntary) making what social entrepreneurs pretend to do. Obviously, in the actions, we must give them opportunities, financial resources to execute their projects as we do for the SEs.

Hi 

I have briefly discussed this issue as a part of my discussion on SE in the article attached. Furthermore, I have developed several tools that can be quantified for measurements of your interest, hope you find it useful.

Thank you very much for your answer. I am having some issues finding an appropriate measure for altruism, especially as it tue questionnaire is to be applied to a culturally diverse sample. Are there any known/recommended scales for these kinds of settings?

Thanks again!