ENGL 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Lightning, Tumblr, Urban Legend
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Someone who recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a venture to create change. Adopting a mission to create and sustain social value (not just private value) Recognizing and relentlessly pursuing new opportunities to serve that mission. Exhibiting heightened accountability to the stakeholders served and for the outcomes created. Social entrepreneurs play the role of change agents in the social sector, by: Engaging in a process of continuous innovation, adaptation, and learning, Acting boldly without being limited by resources currently in hand. Entrepreneurship + shared value = social entrepreneur. An organization that applies commercial strategies to maximize improvements in human and environmental well-being can be for profit and non-profit. Private social enterprise: regular business that don"t involve government (e. g. ugo) Public social enterprise: business that involve government, e. g. healthcare. A social enterprise is a cause-driven business, whose primary reason for being is to improve social objectives and serve the common good.
