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Social Entrepreneurship: A Tool for Sustaining in the Competitive Environment


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1 Department of MBA, Dr. Ambedkar Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India
2 Department of MBA, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Centre for Post Graduate Studies, Chikkaballapur, India
 

India's mantra of economic development is inclusive growth where every citizen is a part of the developmental activity of a nation. A social entrepreneur is the agent with a goal to change the outlook of the society -locality, region, nation & world. They are highly ambitious, searching for an opportunity in finding solutions to tackle major social issues. Social entrepreneurship is providing innovative business ideas to many societal issues which alone cannot be solved by the government or traditional business houses.This paper attempts to discuss the issues & challenges faced by a Social entrepreneur with a goal to sustain in the market. The paper discusses the factors which are interlinked to one another, a conceptual model of vicious cycle of social entrepreneurship which makes the social entrepreneurship to be highly competitive to sustain and meet the challenges of this ever changing competitive environment and contribute for the Socio Economic development of the Nation.

Keywords

Social Entrepreneurship, Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustain, Vicious Cycle, Socio Economic Growth.
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Authors

M. L. Shailaja
Department of MBA, Dr. Ambedkar Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India
R. Pankajakshi
Department of MBA, Visvesvaraya Technological University, Centre for Post Graduate Studies, Chikkaballapur, India

Abstract


India's mantra of economic development is inclusive growth where every citizen is a part of the developmental activity of a nation. A social entrepreneur is the agent with a goal to change the outlook of the society -locality, region, nation & world. They are highly ambitious, searching for an opportunity in finding solutions to tackle major social issues. Social entrepreneurship is providing innovative business ideas to many societal issues which alone cannot be solved by the government or traditional business houses.This paper attempts to discuss the issues & challenges faced by a Social entrepreneur with a goal to sustain in the market. The paper discusses the factors which are interlinked to one another, a conceptual model of vicious cycle of social entrepreneurship which makes the social entrepreneurship to be highly competitive to sustain and meet the challenges of this ever changing competitive environment and contribute for the Socio Economic development of the Nation.

Keywords


Social Entrepreneurship, Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustain, Vicious Cycle, Socio Economic Growth.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.23874/amber%2F2018%2Fv9%2Fi1%2F176059