http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/346 Fri, 15 May 2026 14:56:01 GMT 2026-05-15T14:56:01Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/424 Social Entrepreneurship: A Societal Revolution Sachan, Richa; Yadav, Kiran; Sharma, Gyanendra In different areas of the world, the entrepreneurship concept has ceased to concern only the creation of capitalist firms and has expanded so as to encompass the competency of generating innovative organizational alternatives. And they are innovative not merely because their models differ from those adopted by firms and corporations throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, but also because they expand firms' strategic views beyond the market and its limited forms of transaction. In this expansion, social entrepreneurs' initiatives extend well beyond the mere commerce of products and services, in an attempt to (i) increase the socio environmental development of places left behind by capitalist economic growth; (ii) oblige society to include those who were deprived of the physical, social and economic means required to become social actors, whether as people, consumers or citizens; (iii) expand the opportunities for individuals to become emancipated through their own initiative, generating income and being able to freely choose the lifestyle they want to provide their children with; and (iv) ensure that future generations have the right to be born and live in freedom and with access to the natural resources that biodiversity offers man. Entrepreneurship has been the engine propelling much of the growth of the business sector as well as a driving force behind the rapid expansion of the social sector. The Grameen Bank is the world's largest micro-finance organization; it is a profitable business that has helped thousands of people, mostly women, out of poverty. Social entrepreneurship, the simultaneous pursuit of economic, social, and environmental goals by enterprising ventures, has gradually found a place on the world's stage as a human response to social and environmental problems (Haugh, 2007). This research proposal focuses on an emerging form of economic activity, social entrepreneurship. Alternative forms of organized economic activity are suggested as one solution to some of the problems in contemporary society. However, it remains unclear what these emerging forms are like and how they would operate. Social entrepreneurship combines uniquely social aim with entrepreneurial approach, although these elements individually are not new. While considerable research has been done on the concept and the business case of social entrepreneurship, there is less analysis on how social entrepreneurship affects and is affected by the societal context. The broad aim of this study is to analyze the role of an emerging form of organized economic activity and social entrepreneurship. Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/424 2011-02-16T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/423 Social Entrepreneurship and the Reduction of Inequality Kumar, Ajith J How does social entrepreneurship benefit society? Relying heavily on the adjective 'social', previous research has held that social entrepreneurship catalyzes social transformation and is essentially about solving social problems and creating social value. But the connotation of 'social' here is largely ambiguous as all forms of entrepreneurial activity take place in society and are aimed at creating value for its members. We draw upon the notions of efficiency and equality in the economics literature to offer an alternative perspective on how social entrepreneurship creates value. We observe that social entrepreneurship at its essence represents the drive to reduce the inequality in opportunities that people experience, by altering existing circumstances and/or creating new circumstances for them. Such circumstance manipulation is intended to empower people in different ways such as through giving improved access to education, health care or employment and is not merely about wealth re-distribution. Thus, it results not only in reducing inequality in society, but also simultaneously in increasing its productivity as the empowered population can now contribute in better ways. Successful social entrepreneurship can help break the classical trade-off between equality and efficiency and push the equality-efficiency frontier outward. We briefly illustrate these ideas using narratives of three recognized Indian social initiatives. Interpreting social entrepreneurship in these terms offers a new way to recognizing its importance and also helps distinguish it from mainstream commercial entrepreneurship. Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/423 2011-02-16T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/422 Social Capital and Business Entrepreneurship: A Study of Coastal Karnataka Ganesh, Bhat S; Miranda, John Clarence Social capital is perhaps the biggest growth area in entrepreneurship research. Scholarly studies have been gone into different aspects of entrepreneurship within the framework of social capital: entrepreneur (Anderson & Jack, 2002); organisation (Nahapeit and Ghoshal, 1998); firm regional (Westlund, 2006); family business (Greve & Salaf, 2003; Anderson & Miller, 2003); national (Kown & Arenius, 2010); and even social liabilities (Weber & Weber, 2009). Quite often, held that entrepreneurs' social networks are also strongly affected by their social capital, which is often defined either as (1) the ability of individuals to extract benefits from their social structures, networks, and memberships, or (2) these benefits themselves - the advantages individuals gain from their relationships with others (Nahapiet and Ghoshal,1998). In nutshell, the concept of social capital is an embodiment of entrepreneurial strategy to use of hard resources lying beneath social relations to increase entrepreneurial productivity. In fact, resource acquisition and dispensation within the network is an existential challenge for every entrepreneur. Normally, right from the moment an entrepreneur perceives a business opportunity that can be converted into bankable project, he consults his 'personal network' i.e. 'inner circle' consisting of family members (parents and siblings, relatives: blood and marriage) and 'close friends' (drawn mainly from friends-at-work or informal work connections, religious or caste and community platforms, common interest affiliations, affinity of neighbourhood and others). Beyond information needs, from this 'informal source', one may draw functional inputs as well. Once the enterprise is launched (or in the launching process) he develops 'business contacts' with professional advisors (bank managers, solicitors, tax consultants and others) and 'commercial relationships' with customers, suppliers, employees and others which in aggregate give rise to 'business network' i.e. 'outer circle' (Ramachandran & Ramnarayan, 1993). The purpose of this paper is to understand the social capital dynamics of a select group of entrepreneurs drawn from diverse sectors in Udupi district of Coastal Karnataka. The paper begins with a review of extensive literature on social capital that offers a platform to grasp the social capital in entrepreneurship context. Thereafter, it rolls on to empirical part of study in which in-depth social interactions data is analysed. Findings establish the fact that social capital dynamics creates an economic critical mass that helps small entrepreneurs to flourish against odds. Mainly the 'liabilities of locality' along with 'liabilities of newness' and 'liabilities of smallness' force small entrepreneurs to seek entrepreneurial resources both 'hard and soft' from 'network endowed' and 'network weaved' in entrepreneurial process. Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/422 2011-02-16T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/421 Honesty ki Zappi - Opportunity for India's Social Entrepreneurship Prajapati, Sudhir The Central Government's debt waiver and debt relief scheme-2008 for farmer though well intentional but ill targeted and half heartedly managed, is going to encourage dishonest people to remain dishonest and honest people to become dishonest. This way it is going to harm more to the society in long run and in end there is almost no motivation for Social Entrepreneurship culture. Given the historical trend in India, particularly in social sector and overall in general our all policies are more targeted to discourage dishonesty and never been to encourage honesty. In the process our social structure and nation as whole shows the characteristics of low productivity, low innovations, and abysmal level of efficient use of resources like men, machine, money and land. Right from Bombay club to farmer clubs all are heavily depend on Government aids, tax concessions, waivers, subsidies etc. Highly influential industry bodies like FICCI, Chambers of commerce, Kisan Sangh, Various farmers organizations at different level waste there lot of time, energy and money to get favourable policy, which is mostly lacking in area of vision to build social entrepreneur culture amongst all the people and sectors. As a result, We as a society, never, encourage long term social entrepreneurship methods, by having right policies at right time. It is very difficult to unlearn and learn new things, particularly when financial stacks are involved. However, country like India where literacy, poverty, unemployment and empowerment of people is very low in rural area, we required to take some long term policy initiation so the coming generation must not blame us for not trying best things like honesty. This will not only help Government to deal with bad debts but it has also potential to bring in social revolution. We as nation will also able to change our perception as proactive nation in promoting its human values through such steps. Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.ediindia.ac.in:8181/xmlui//handle/123456789/421 2011-02-16T00:00:00Z