Social Entrepreneurship: Pattern-Changing Entrepreneurs And The Scaling Of Social Impact
- Topics:
- Small Business
- Source:
- Case Western Reserve University
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Overview: This paper presents findings from an investigation of pattern-changing social entrepreneurs. We examined the efforts of fifteen entrepreneurs and sought to understand the factors that enable successful ones to scale their social impact. All the entrepreneurs were operating in capital constrained environments and scaling required overcoming funding constraints. The findings indicate that pattern-changing social entrepreneurs are more concerned with scaling their impact than with growing their enterprises. Hence, many were pursuing both direct scaling where they grew their own enterprises and indirect scaling where they pursued impact through influencing other organizations. Social entrepreneurship is not a linear process; rather it is one of discovery, evolution, growth, learning and reinforcement.
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Format: PDF | Size: 282KB | Date: Jan 2006 | Pages: 29
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