Dr. Peter Frumkin has an excellent post on social entrepreneurship, social enterprise, nonprofit management, nonprofit leadership, and social impact, as bodies of knowledge taught at Harvard, Stanford, Duke, and Penn. He finds the essence the entrepreneurial forms in innovation, sustainability, and scale. Whether these are achieved in forprofit or nonprofiit form is a choice for form, more than function.
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Strong sentence ...
Social entrepreneurs are the actors who do the work, social enterprises are the organizational forms that are used, social innovation is the theory of change that guides the process, and social impact is the end result that is achieved.
Values & worldview are the threads underneath the term 'social' here, I think.
Posted by: Jon Husband | December 23, 2012 at 03:46 PM
A new hero on the world stage. Age? Twenty something. Education? Stanford, Harvard, Duke, Penn. Self esteem? Boundless. Models? Steve Jobs, Pierre Omidyar, Andreeson. No sense that virtue and sacrifice go together. The internet changes everything part II. Part one was a long gone bubble. Part II will fare better, I hope. When JP Morgan predicts, as they have, that this will be a one trillion dollar investments business in the next ten years, it makes me wonder about year 11 - maybe a half trillion?
Posted by: phil | December 23, 2012 at 04:48 PM
A lot of people who talk about social entrepreneurs have a firmer grasp of what entrepreneur means than what social means. Social is the subordinate term, malleable, vague, "beladen", adjectival - granting a pathos of the "social" unto a cold and unambiguous noun.
Posted by: Auntie Tantemount | December 26, 2012 at 06:52 PM
Social as in Facebook and Twitter, public good and public benefits on private platforms. Social with a shrink wrap license.
Posted by: philcubeta | December 26, 2012 at 08:28 PM