This chapter primarily aims to revisit and explore the theoretical underpinnings of social entrepreneurship and dwell into what unfolds while amalgamating the conventionally considered to be dissimilar design of business entrepreneurship and the social impact? Can the prefix "social" of social entrepreneurship transform the innate characteristics of entrepreneurship? Is social entrepreneurship an essentiality in a ground-breaking playing field in the business research to facilitate new theories and concepts or a rehash of the corporate responsibility debate? Is it just an appellation or does the underscored social label and its construct allow for new possibility to be explored into the sociality of entrepreneurship along with the new-fangled entrepreneurialism in society? The chapter attempts to decode these more germane and interwoven issues like do we have to tell apart between a capitalist entrepreneurship and a non-capitalist one? Or between pioneering and replicative entrepreneurs. Can we sanctify the political in the social spheres and who (which actors) actually sets the discourse of social needs. The chapter also tracks multiple cases in the Indian locale to determine the robust application of the concept while unpacking the Indian context of social entrepreneurship. These cases are randomly selected from assorted sectors and are wide in its sweep and scope. These cases highlight on the lived experiences, where the task is truly played out. This adds to the sensibilities of new entrepreneurs and policy framers who face the challenges.
La complexite a reguler les entreprises multinationales a l’ere de la mondialisation : comprendre la taxonomie du pouvoir et des responsabilites des entreprisesDans un monde de plus en plus integre, la recherche d’une justice globale est en train de devenir le defi le plus complexe et dans le meme temps le plus imperatif et serieux du 21e siecle. Le discours autour de la RSE est devenu omnipresent et a joue un role cle dans la prise de conscience que les entreprises ont des responsabilites autres que celles qui les engagent vis-a-vis de leurs actionnaires. Ces interactions ont enlace les chaines de la «double helice» de la pratique et des idees, de la realite et de la theorie, et forment une conception sociale de ce que nous considerons aujourd’hui comme “comportement responsable des entreprises.” Cet article est un apercu de l’emergence et du developpement des facons dont les entreprises ont soit repondu aux pressions du public pour prendre plus de responsabilites et, dans certains cas, soit abroge ces memes responsabilites. La responsabilite sociale des entreprises a emerge comme etant un traite influent des engagements des entreprises a servir la societe envers qui ils sont engages contractuellement. Des dirigeants eclaires ont depuis longtemps reconnu que les entreprises ne peuvent ignorer les consequences de leurs activites sur la societe. Faire de l’argent et creer de la valeur partagee doit aller de pair. Cet article vise a comprendre comment nous pouvons aborder certains des debats les plus controverses sur les relations encore mal definies qui existent entre les entreprises, l’Etat et la societe.
Across the world, the concept of social entrepreneurship is taking off. It is globally called as unconventional economic institutions in the era of neoliberalism. But, as everyone celebrates the advent of social entrepreneurship, there's an important question that must be answered: why the sudden spotlight upon it? Over the last two decades, there has been growing focus on social entrepreneurship. Social entrepreneurship is an attempt to re-embed social and ethical dimensions within the neoliberal paradigm. As a neoliberal actor par excellence, the social entrepreneur is reoriented to confidently mediate in society, to do good for those at the bottom of pyramid. The term ‘entrepreneurship’, in the capitalist model, signifies the capacity for wealth creation, the ability to maximize profit for the self and, for shareholders, an extremely competitive market. However, the prefix ‘social’ indicates responsibility towards the collective, and values of solidarity and cooperation. Social entrepreneurs invariably carry the weight of the economic and political predicaments of the modern world; they are the descendants of neoliberal entrepreneurship, yet at the same time they confront some of its foundational pillars. In this chapter, the authors attempt to understand how a social entrepreneur mobilizes a series of values that articulate an alternate imagining of the neoliberal global order.
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