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Sincerely, The Skoll World Forum Online Team. Front Page. Solecopedia. Communauté des acteurs de l'économie sociale et solidaire - Tessolidaire - ESS. Des idées qui changent le monde. Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship - Home. Omidyar Network. The New Heroes . What is Social Entrepreneurship? Photo: Mitch Wilson A social entrepreneur identifies and solves social problems on a large scale.
Just as business entrepreneurs create and transform whole industries, social entrepreneurs act as the change agents for society, seizing opportunities others miss in order to improve systems, invent and disseminate new approaches and advance sustainable solutions that create social value. Unlike traditional business entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs primarily seek to generate "social value" rather than profits. And unlike the majority of non-profit organizations, their work is targeted not only towards immediate, small-scale effects, but sweeping, long-term change. "Social entrepreneurs identify resources where people only see problems. David Bornstein, author of How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck and to provide new ways to get it unstuck.
SocialEarth. Entrepreneuriat social. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre.
Selon Amandine Barthélémy et Romain Slitine[1], cette forme d'entrepreneuriat, au service de l'intérêt général, recouvre l’ensemble des initiatives économiques dont la finalité principale est sociale ou environnementale et qui réinvestissent la majorité de leurs bénéfices au profit de cette mission. L'entrepreneuriat social est apparu au cours des années 1990 en Europe et aux États-Unis avec des approches différenciées. En France, les entrepreneurs sociaux sont fédérés au sein du Mouvement des entrepreneurs sociaux (MOUVES). Ce mouvement définit ainsi l'entrepreneuriat social : « Les entreprises sociales sont des entreprises à finalité sociale, sociétale ou environnementale et à lucrativité limitée.
Elles cherchent à associer leurs parties prenantes à leur gouvernance[2] ». En France, le concept d'entrepreneuriat social permet d'appréhender le secteur de l'économie sociale et solidaire en insistant sur le rôle des entrepreneurs. Social Entrepreneur Empowerment Series. Social entrepreneurship. Social entrepreneurship is the process of pursuing innovative solutions to social problems.
More specifically, social entrepreneurs adopt a mission to create and sustain social value. They pursue opportunities to serve this mission, while continuously adapting and learning. They draw upon appropriate thinking in both the business and nonprofit worlds and operate in all kinds of organizations: large and small; new and old; religious and secular; nonprofit, for-profit, and hybrid.[1] Business entrepreneurs typically measure performance in profit and return, but social entrepreneurs also take into account a positive return to society.
Social entrepreneurship typically furthers broad social, cultural, and environmental goals and is commonly associated with the voluntary and not-for-profit sectors.[2] Profit can at times also be a consideration for certain companies or other enterprises. Modern definition[edit] There are continuing arguments over precisely who counts as a social entrepreneur. Institute For Social Entrepreneurs, Jerr Boschee.