A S L 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Skoll Foundation, Hybridity, Thatcherism
Document Summary
The promise of social entrepreneurship as a mechanism for responding to growing poverty, inequality, exclusion and environmental degradation is vast leadbeater first published the. Rise of the social entrepreneur, the approach has gained prominence as a viable method for. In academia, social entrepreneurship scholars have broken into mainstream management journals; in education, leading business schools are successfully delivering courses and modules on social and community enterprise. Muhammad yunus, founder of the pioneering grameen bank, has been awarded the nobel prize for developing the concept of microfinance. Across the eu and north america, policymakers are promising to put social innovation at the heart of rebalanced economic systems following the global recession. Entrepreneurs have long been recognised as key catalytic figures in the economy. Increasingly, however, the notion of the entrepreneur as someone merely pursuing economic gain is being superseded by a broader notion of entrepreneurship that involves addressing issues of sustainability, the environment and social needs.
