REC101 Lecture : Oct 18-Notes_on_Social_Entrepreneurship Oct 18-Notes_on_Social_Entrepreneurship
16 Oct 2011
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A social entrepreneur is a person with qualities and behaviours we associate with a business entrepreneur, but who operates in the community and is more concerned about caring and helping than with making money. Four-stage process of social entrepreneurship: envisioning, engaging, enabling, enacting. Implies either an explicit motive or an explicit intent to improve someone else"s welfare. Can possibly diminish an individual"s own well-being while simultaneously enhancing someone else"s. Individuals weigh costs and benefits when considering volunteer work. Volunteers often have a stake in their own volunteer work. People volunteer because they anticipate a future need for assistance themselves or have already received assistance and wish to give something back: many volunteers long for recognition for their efforts. Volunteers acknowledge the benefits they receive from their work. Social ties increase the chances of being asked to volunteer. Face-to-face invitations are more effective than impersonal requests in terms of recruiting volunteers.
