First, Do No Harm: Evaluating Resources for Teaching Social Entrepreneurship

Learning From Poverty: Why Business Schools Should Address Poverty, and How They Can Go About it

“…Such a case encourages students to weave organizational behavior issues, with those of deprivation, disadvantage and labor markets. Zietsma and Tuck (2012) have argued that management students can benefit from the study and examination of social enterprises operating in the poorest parts of the world, and those within their own country or neighborhood. The Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (CASE) at Duke University in the US has a large collection of useful case studies on its website, including, for example, that of the Latino Community Credit Union Students can benefit by examining social businesses, for the success stories and controversies around them encourage reflection upon the nature of investment, and motivations for it.…”

Modeling the social, economic and environmental effects of Pondok Tahfiz

“…This is especially concerning as social enterprises begin to replace traditional non-profit organizations and government services. Extant social enterprise studies have failed to critically examine the impacts of social enterprises without examining unexpected impacts and the potential harm they can create (Zietsma & Tuck, 2012). Without understanding how social value is created within social enterprises and how social performance can effectively be measured, it is impossible to ensure that social enterprises are having the impacts they claim to have.…”

Toward a realistic theory of social entrepreneurship (NGOs) grounded on microfinance research: Selling dreams to society

“…The Rawlsian ethical argument of the founders of Compartamos was that high interest rates of 100% per annum permitted high profits, which permitted growth and the ability to finance more poor borrowers, who were the weakest part of society, even poorer than the existing borrowers (Hudon and Ashta, ). Even the most famous social entrepreneur, Muhammad Yunus, may be considered good by some (Dees, ) and less good by others (Adams and Raymond, ; Zietsma and Tuck, ).…”