Social Entrepreneurship and Motivation: Setting up a Social Enterprise

Managing
Entrepreneurship,
Innovation & Creativity

Table of Contents
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................1
Social entrepreneurship and motivation behind setting up a social enterprise ..........................1
TASK 3 ...........................................................................................................................................4
Concept Plan...............................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................11

TASK 1
INTRODUCTION
I am a student who is pursuing her carrier in the field of business management which is
improving my certain business skills and knowledge. I always want to learn new things and grab
new opportunities that will help me to improve my skills set. In my studies, I am developing my
certain skills such as communication and management and I am also learning the concept of
entrepreneurship.
From my perspective, I am a creative person who always find a creative way to learn
new things. I come from an environment where education is given a lot of importance but at the
same time its not the solo thing which defined you as a person. The environment from where I
come from gives opportunities to people who are innovative and creative, does not matter from
which educational background they came from. When it comes to my family, than I belong to a
middle class family and my parents are not indulge in any kind of entrepreneur activity. The pre-
skills which I am going to contribute in this module is my strong communication skills and my
creative skills. These skills will help me to successfully implement this module which will result
which will help me conduct this module in a more effective manner.
TASK 2
Social entrepreneurship and motivation behind setting up a social enterprise
Social entrepreneurship is determined as an approach which has been adopted by start-up
organisations and entrepreneurs, in which these entities develop, funds and implement solution to
cultural, social and any kind of environmental issues (Acar, Tarakci and van Knippenberg,
2019). Such concept can be applied towards a broad organisational range which varies in aims,
beliefs and sizes. Such entrepreneurship is determined as recognising all kinds of problems
related to society and in achieving any kind of social changes by employing certain principles,
operations and procedures of entrepreneurship. It is about making a research to complete
defining a specific problem of a society and than in creating, managing and organising social
venture for attaining desired changes (What is Social Entrepreneurship, 2019). That change can
include an elimination of problem related to society. It is a lifetime procedure that focuses upon
improving the current circumstances.
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Social enterprises are operated with an objective to create value for society and they help
in generating income. The solutions which are offered by them are required to be unique,
innovative and environmental friendly. Also, cost effectiveness is determined as a large
consideration in this context (Aryani, 2019). All such challenges helps in enhancing the
sustainability of social enterprises but those who are able in scaling these are the one who are
capable of creating a large impact and these enterprises are beneficial for the people,
environment and society.
As per the problems related to society, social entrepreneurship do not only focus upon
problems related to society but it also focuses upon problem which are related to environment
such as foundations of child rights, foundations related to women empowerment, plants to treat
products that are waste, which are considered as examples of social entrepreneurship. Social
entrepreneurs are those individuals who are associated with non-government and non-profit
organisations that aims at raising funds by activities and events of community.
Andrew Mawson had worked on extensive level to maintain focus upon the social
entrepreneurship concept in order to bring reformation in community structure. He has also laid
foundation of Bow centre which is in East London. There are various famous social enterprises
all over the world who provide social services to people. For example, Echoing USA, which is a
non-profit enterprise that operates its services in investing of social sector. This social enterprise
is helping youngsters by providing them a platform for converting their business idea into
organisations (ECHOING GREEN, 2019). Another social enterprise which can be considered as
an example is Omidyar Network which was established in 2004 which an aim to foster economic
advancement. These network encourage the participation of government transparency, social
media, property rights and micro finance (OMIDYAR NETWORK INDIA, 2019). Another
example of social enterprise is CASA, which have been established in the year 2004 which aims
at helping people and children by providing them additional support services. It also provides
services to old and disable people by developing their franchise network of workers who are the
providers of social care (CASA, 2019). All these enterprises aims at providing social services to
people which will help them in satisfying their various needs and requirements.
There are advantages of a social enterprise has been set up. The basic goal behind setting
up a social enterprise is that to help people from certain issues and problems which aims at
solving people issues. The basic aim of this enterprise is that it helps in finding it easy for raising
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