Social Entrepreneurs: Definition and Desired Core Competency towards the Sustainable Social Entrepreneurship
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In the 21st century, it is the transformation of thinking method, hypothesis, perspective, value, and progression that requires a collective sharing in the society. This leads to the new principle in entrepreneurship which is called “Social Enterprise” in order to revolutionize society for the better in the creation of social innovation to solve social problems such as poverty reduction, alleviation of sickness, illiteracy eradication, environmental preservation, human rights protection, and ending corruption. In this regard, the pioneers including individuals, a group of individuals, communities, or a legal entity have the determination and the ambition to resolve social problems, to seek opportunities to create social value from working together in order to address social needs concurrently with the searching for a mobilizing channel from economic value creation. This nourishes the operation of entrepreneurial activity to further develop projects that are beneficial to a sustainable society which is called “Social Entrepreneur,” and fosters social entrepreneurs that make social change. Therefore, those individuals must have core capacity that manifests through the characteristics of the social entrepreneurs which comprises having an intuition to create social change and vision to bring about goodness in society contributes to the building of new attributes to obtain opportunity by thinking explicitly while creating social roles withholding the responsibility of many stakeholders. Additionally, the external competence of social entrepreneurs comprises having knowledge to create a successful business while the skill that social entrepreneurs should possess more than other entrepreneurs is management competence which includes planning, communication, and decision making. As a result, the interrelation between social competence of all involved stakeholders can be created by working together and networking.
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