The role of social entrepreneurship in community development

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1 Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Social Development Studies, University of Tehran.

2 PhD Candidate. Department of Social Development Studies, University of Tehran.

Abstract

Social entrepreneurship is a process by which entrepreneurs build or transform institutions to advance solutions to social problems, such as poverty, illness, illiteracy, environmental destruction, human rights abuses and corruption, in order to make life better for many. Social Entrepreneurship can reorganize and rearrange human, economic and social assets to answer needs of communities. It means Social Entrepreneurship helps to show the social responsibility of firms and companies to the social problems produced because of unbalanced development. Social Entrepreneurship redistributes the economic values by economic sector in to the community which has the positive effects on the social sector. Additionally, Social Entrepreneurship can reduce anxiety or eliminate many problems like poverty. This article aimed to elaborate the concept of Social Entrepreneurship and its differentials aspects from common types by providing a theoretical perspective. Theoretical findings show that Social Entrepreneurship has one of the most important effects on community development and promote human development. If Community development is defined as a planning effort to produce physical, human, social, financial capital, Social Entrepreneurship will be used as new strategies and tactics to solve social problems. Social entrepreneurs try to expand the education and the employment as well as decrease the rate of crime which lead community to be more safe and secure. In addition, Social Entrepreneurship practice can end to the many individual and intangible outcomes such as improving self-confidence, promoting trust and building social capacity. So distribution of resources and services can help to the Marginal groups such as women, disabled group, elder people, immigrants and others play as an activist in to the community.

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Community Development (Rural and Urban)
Volume 7, Issue 1
April 2015
Pages 29-58

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