http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/12663 2026-05-15T15:06:07Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/12673 What is Social Entrepreneurship? Sakunia, Debashish Social Entrepreneurship is perhaps one of the most misused word in the entrepreneurial space. Often, founders or promoters of a social business call themselves social entrepreneurs. However, there is a fine line of difference between social business and social entrepreneurs. To begin, social entrepreneurship is a subset of the entrepreneurial spectrum dedicated to bring balance to a unjust imbalance and not just recycling the waste produced by an imbalance. The paper describes characteristics of a social entrepreneurial venture and how it is different from a social business and social activism. Fourteenth Biennial Conference on Entrepreneurship/ Edited by Rajeev Sharma, Sunil Shukla, Amit Kumar Dwivedi & Ganapathi Batthini 2021-02-25T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/12672 Understanding the Concept of Social Entrepreneurship Paigude, Supriya Dhananjay Purpose of the is paper is to understand the Concept Social Enterprise and its principles of Social Entrepreneurship. Social entrepreneurships is a thought of making society a better place by bringing the solution to the community based problem. The individual with such a thought of a mindset becomes a “Social Entrepreneur “ Social entrepreneurships are about driving a positive change within the society. It is creating a transformational change and brining benefit to the society, and it also comes with lot of commitment towards the society. Social entrepreneurship is not profit oriented or the only goal of business but the ultimate objective or the goal is of improving the society or betterment of the environment as a whole. Today, though the concept of Social Entrepreneurship is perceived in various ways in the global and may cater to different aspects of the society depending on the nature of problems. However Social entrepreneurship at large is also catering to the Corporate Social Responsibility & archiving the sustainable development. Social entrepreneurships should follow the principles of Governance, collective interest and ensure the involvement of all the necessary stakeholders. Proper and rational governance will help and add value to full fill another principle of Environmental & social objectives ensuring the sustainable growth. There can be various purposes to achieve from community development, energy conservation, proper waste management or even ensuring proper health services to masses. Social entrepreneurship involves exploring the opportunity of business with an objective of addressing the social need, recognition toward the problem addressed & evaluation in terms of the extent of creating and awareness and bringing about the social change and last but not the least exploration of opportunities that will create and bring a significant value to the needs of the society. Commercial entrepreneurship represents the identification, evaluation, and exploitation of opportunities which are profit oriented. Contradicting to the same thought, social entrepreneurship refers to the identification, evaluation, and exploitation of opportunities that result in social value Fourteenth Biennial Conference on Entrepreneurship/ Edited by Rajeev Sharma, Sunil Shukla, Amit Kumar Dwivedi & Ganapathi Batthini 2021-02-25T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/12671 The Role of Social Enterprise for Avoidable Blindness Problems: A Case Study Sambrani, Vinod N World's largest number of blind people are in India. Of the 37 million people across the globe who are blind and 216.8 million having moderate to severe visual impairment (MSVI), 14 million are from India and is expected to rise to 15 million by 2020. However, the burden of global blindness continues to increase. As per WHO 80% of all causes of visual impairment are preventable and about 90% of the world’s visually impaired live in developing countries. The goal of “World Health Organisation” and “International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness” is to eradicate avoidable blindness and save about one hundred million people from becoming blind across the world. As per the Rapid Assessment of Avoidable Blindness (RAAB) conducted under the National Programme for Control of Blindness and Visual Impairment (NPCB &VI) by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare India, Karnataka is among top five states for visual disability. The reasons for high figures in India are due to large population base, increase in ageing population and semi-tropical location of the country, lack of public awareness, orthodox beliefs and economic constraints added to this is the lack of medical infrastructure, qualified eye surgeons, inequitable distribution of eye surgeons with one eye surgeon to 2, 50, 000 patients in rural areas as compared to the one eye surgeon to 20,000 patients in urban areas. The problem of avoidable blindness and vision impairment continues to be escalating rapidly and is a major public health issues in India. Challenges like rising population, lack of infrastructure, lower income level and below poverty line population and significant number of aged people, it becomes difficult for the government to provide health care to all. Fourteenth Biennial Conference on Entrepreneurship/ Edited by Rajeev Sharma, Sunil Shukla, Amit Kumar Dwivedi & Ganapathi Batthini 2021-02-25T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/12670 Social Entrepreneurship: A Conceptual Work Sinha, Ashish “Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how into fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry” — Bill Tom Reis (1999). Social entrepreneurship is slowly becoming a key element in the global debate over volunteering and civic responsibility. it combines a passion for a common cause with an industry ethic and is distinct and different from other types of business models when trying to influence today’s mission. Social entrepreneurs focus on how to reduce or eliminate social pressures and create innovative results or public property. This study focuses on the importance of social entrepreneurship across different genres and its imposition concerning other forms of entrepreneurship today. It concentrates on the emergence of social entrepreneurship as an institutional sector in India. it explains the role of social entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurial groups in bringing about social change. Against this background, the researchers suggest that Indian NGOs should be more entrepreneurial in their approach and use different strategies to advance their mission. Fourteenth Biennial Conference on Entrepreneurship/ Edited by Rajeev Sharma, Sunil Shukla, Amit Kumar Dwivedi & Ganapathi Batthini 2021-02-25T00:00:00Z