Overcoming Poverty through Social Entrepreneurship: A Conceptual Paper

Social Entrepreneurship: A Conceptual Framework

The area of Social entrepreneurship has become an important issue of contemporary relevance in academic literature and research. The paper puts forward a view of social entrepreneurship as a process that brings social change or addresses important social needs. Social entrepreneurship is seen as differing form other forms of enterprise where a high priority is given to promote social value and ...

Overcoming poverty – CBR

Conventional wisdom tells us that poverty is an absolute measurable state of being, a lack of access to goods and services, and as such can be assessed by metrics and indices. Mohammed Yunus, founder of The Grameen Bank turns conventional wisdom on its head. For Grameen, poverty is a conceptual rather than spiritual lack. Poverty is in what we perceive. Recognizing this is a prerequisite for th...

The Role of Social Networks and Internet-based Virtual Environment in Social Entrepreneurship: A Conceptual Model

Entrepreneurship , poverty , and Asia : Moving beyond subsistence entrepreneurship

Approximately 1.7 billion people in Asia live in poverty today. To date, efforts to address poverty in Asia have largely focused on subsistence entrepreneurship rather than on creating ventures that empower them to break out of poverty. That is, the mechanisms that have been used, such as microlending, generally lead entrepreneurs to create businesses providing basic life essentials rather than...

Defining the ‘Social’ in ‘Social Entrepreneurship’: Altruism and Entrepreneurship

What is social entrepreneurship? In, particular, what’s so social about it? Understanding what social entrepreneurship is enables researchers to study the phenomenon and policy-makers to design measures to encourage it. However, such an understanding is lacking partly because there is no universally accepted definition of entrepreneurship as yet. In this paper, we suggest a definition of social...