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The terms social entrepreneur and social entrepreneurship were used first in the literature in 1953 by H. Bowen in his book Social Responsibilities of the Businessman. [42] The terms came into widespread use in the 1980s and 1990s, promoted by Bill Drayton , [ 43 ] Charles Leadbeater, and others. [ 44 ]
The distinguishing characteristic of the social venture versus the commercial venture is the primacy of their objective to solve social problems and provide social benefits. The social venture may generate profits, but that is not its focus. Rather profits are a possible means to achieve sustainability in providing a social benefit.
A social enterprises can be structured as a business, a partnership for profit or non-profit, and may take the form (depending on in which country the entity exists and the legal forms available) of a co-operative, mutual organisation, a disregarded entity (a form of business classification for income tax purposes in the United States), [5] a social business, a benefit corporation, a community ...
Social entrepreneurship is the use of the by start up companies and other entrepreneurs to develop, fund and implement solutions to social, cultural, or environmental issues. [107] This concept may be applied to a variety of organizations with different sizes, aims, and beliefs. [ 108 ]
Seven principles of a successful social business were developed by Muhammad Yunus and Hans Reitz, the co-founder of Grameen Creative Lab: [8] Business objective will be to overcome poverty, or one or more problems (such as education, health, technology access, and environment) which threaten people and society; not profit maximization.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu successfully underwent surgery to have his prostate removed, hospital officials said Sunday. The 75-year-old leader, who has had a series of health issues ...
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The term "corporate social entrepreneur" was defined and distinguished from other types of entrepreneurs, such as executive entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs (Pinchot, 1985), policy entrepreneurs, and public or social entrepreneur. [14] [13] The term initially referred to managers. However, employee inclusion was later extended to all levels of the ...