Social entrepreneurs as change agents: a case study on power and authority in the water sector

Partzsch, Lena; Ziegler, Rafael

doi:10.1007/s10784-011-9150-1

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“…Collaborative leadership is necessary to bridge gaps, span boundaries and build coalitions between different actors and sectors. Policy entrepreneurs may provide for this type of leadership (Partzsch and Ziegler 2011;Huitema and Meijerink 2009).…”

Section: Coordination Mechanismsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recurrent Governance Challenges in the Implementation and Alignment of Flood Risk Management Strategies: a Review

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Hegger

Bakker

et al. 2016

Water Resour Manage

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In Europe increasing flood risks challenge societies to diversify their Flood Risk Management Strategies (FRMSs). Such a diversification implies that actors not only focus on flood defence, but also and simultaneously on flood risk prevention, mitigation, preparation and recovery. There is much literature on the implementation of specific strategies and measures as well as on flood risk governance more generally. What is lacking, though, is a clear overview of the complex set of governance challenges which may result from a diversification and alignment of FRM strategies. This paper aims to address this knowledge gap. It elaborates on potential processes and mechanisms for coordinating the activities and capacities of actors that are involved on different levels and in different sectors of flood risk governance, both concerning the implementation of individual strategies and the coordination of the overall set of strategies. It identifies eight overall coordination mechanisms that have proven to be useful in this respect.

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Section: Coordination Mechanismsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recurrent Governance Challenges in the Implementation and Alignment of Flood Risk Management Strategies: a Review

Dieperink

Hegger

Bakker

et al. 2016

Water Resour Manage

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“…Limited access to potable water and a lack of the provision of services create a vicious cycle (Partzsch and Ziegler 2011) that lead to reducing economic growth in developing countries. Evidence shows that very little recycling of water is taking place in the world where the major sources of water are surface (30 %) and ground water (69 %) and the major uses are drinking, industrial or agricultural.…”

Section: Entrepreneurship In the Water Sectors In Developing Economiementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Governments in developing countries often fail to offer these functions, while social entrepreneurship searches to find innovative ways to overcome these institutional failures. However, social entrepreneurs can work in the water sector as agents that perform certain functions and provide certain services previously considered the sole authority of states, and such enterprises are characterized by authority gained by their innovative potential, local embeddedness, educational efforts, and additional sources of accountability and legitimacy (Partzsch and Ziegler 2011). Currently, there are some social entrepreneurship initiatives in the water sector of developing economies (Ashoka 2014;Schwab Foundation 2014;and Skoll Foundation 2014), but these are not enough to equal the diverse demands.…”

Section: Social Entrepreneurship In Developing Economies and Bangladeshmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A strong correlation exists between human development indicators (income, childhood mortality, and life expectancy) and the access to potable water (WHO and UNICEF 2000). Partzsch and Ziegler (2011) found that to develop a national economy, access to potable water is obligatory. According to UNDP report, unfortunately, at present onethird of the world's residents have no access to potable water.…”

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Business format in social entrepreneurships for Bangladesh’s water sector

Hoque

Nahid

2015

J Glob Entrepr Res

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This study suggests a social business format, founded on social entrepreneurship for the water sector, that appears suitable in Bangladesh. The theoretical aspect of the study examines the literature on social entrepreneurship in developing economies and in Bangladesh, as well as literature on business models and formats. The empirical aspect of the study contains individual cases that are studied through secondary data. The complete sample originates from the database of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship of the water sector and Bangladesh Social Enterprise Projects for social business enterprises. The results of this study provide an overview of a successful social business format composed from the nine cases of social business enterprises and the eight non-profit social enterprises in the water sector. Similarities between the social businesses' formats indicated by the social business enterprises' cross-case analysis include business mission, market exploitation, direct relationship dynamics and the basis for differentiation. When compared with the eight social business formats in the water sector, differences were found. The social business format in the water sectors does not focus on entrepreneurial skills, product innovation, direct sales, partnership with a business, or economic value creation.

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“…In particular, they highlight a key attribute that distinguishes agents from actors: in addition to proposing solutions to environmental problems and implementing them, agents can shape broader norms and values relating to earth system governance. For example, social entrepreneurs (Partzsch and Ziegler 2011) both redefine the state's hydraulic mission to be more inclusive of social and environmental concerns, as well as proposing and implementing concrete solutions to local water use issues. Similarly, global environmental consultancy firms identify environmental problems and develop solutions, but are also influential in outlining what practices and solutions are deemed appropriate in the first place (Bouteligier 2011).…”

Section: Understanding Agency In Earth System Governancementioning

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Agency in earth system governance: refining a research agenda

Dellas

Pattberg

Betsill

2011

Int Environ Agreements

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In the face of global environmental change, a key question for the social sciences is how to organize the co-evolution of societies and their natural environment. In this context, a new long-term research program, the Earth System Governance Project, proposes several key issues to be examined: architecture, agency, adaptiveness, accountability, and allocation and access. The contributions to this special issue have focused on the analytical problem of agency. For example, they have examined newly emerging or understudied agents of global environmental governance, or offered a fresh assessment of agency in the context of existing governance mechanisms such as the Clean Development Mechanism. This concluding article outlines several insights provided by the contributions to this special issue regarding four key questions underlying the study of agency in global environmental governance. First, they call attention to the ingredients or processes that characterize agency in the first place and thus distinguish actors from agents. Secondly, the authors highlight the differences among agents and how they interact with each other. Thirdly, they point toward variation in the ways that agents may acquire authority. Finally, the contributions to this special issue suggest that there may be several approaches to evaluating agency, with different consequences. Thus, taken together, the contributions to this special issue provide a starting point for broadening our understanding of agency in earth system governance.

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Social entrepreneurs as change agents: a case study on power and authority in the water sector

Abstract: Social entrepreneurship, Legitimacy, Authority, Agency, Social accountability, Innovation, Water governance,

Cited by 82 publications

References 27 publications

Recurrent Governance Challenges in the Implementation and Alignment of Flood Risk Management Strategies: a Review

Recurrent Governance Challenges in the Implementation and Alignment of Flood Risk Management Strategies: a Review

Business format in social entrepreneurships for Bangladesh’s water sector

Agency in earth system governance: refining a research agenda

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