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Social Entrepreneurship
The concept of 'social entrepreneurship' has been rapidly emerging in the private, public and non-profit sectors over the last few years. Currently, the non-profit sector is facing intensifying demands for improved effectiveness and sustainability in light of diminishing funding from tradi...
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2007
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| Summary: | The concept of 'social entrepreneurship' has been rapidly emerging in the private, public and non-profit sectors over the last few years. Currently, the non-profit sector is facing intensifying demands for improved effectiveness and sustainability in light of diminishing funding from traditional sources and increased competition for these scarce resources. At the same time, the increasing concentration of wealth in the private sector is promoting calls for increased corporate social responsibility and more proactive responses to complex social problems, while governments at all levels are grappling with multiple demands on public funds. In light of this, social entrepreneurship is emerging as an innovative approach for dealing with complex social needs. With its emphasis on problem-solving and social innovation, socially entrepreneurial activities blur the traditional boundaries between the public, private and non-profit sector, and emphasize hybrid models of for-profit and non-profit activities. Promoting collaboration between sectors is implicit within social entrepreneurship, as is developing radical new approaches to solving old problems. Social entrepreneurship has a strong... |
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