Social Entrepreneurship in South Africa: Context, Relevance and Extent

Visser, Kobus

doi:10.5367/ihe.2011.0050

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“…As well as this, it is able to vividly reflect the perspective and voice of the narrator or characters in the story (Leavy, 2009), thus making the perspective of the individual prominent, and also at the same time bring theories to life (Phillips, 1995). Visser's (2011) work and Imas, Wilson and Weston's (2012) work both give a vivid example of narratives via stories in their research.…”

Section: Moving Forward: Methodological Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In itself, the term is a hybrid between business principles and methods applied not for individual gain and profit, but for group or social gain and for social change (Dees, 2001;Mort and Weerawardena, 2007). In Africa, the extent of social entrepreneurship varies across states due to different degrees of success in attracting foreign aid (Visser, 2011). Thus, the concept itself has come to be associated with aid, micro-financing and non-governmental organisations (NGOs).…”

Section: Social Entrepreneurshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Postcolonial Analysis of Entrepreneurship in Africa

Sambajee

Weston

2015

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Global measurement of entrepreneurial activity shows that entrepreneurship in Africa is growing. Similarly, research on African entrepreneurs and their entrepreneurial behaviour appear in an increasing number of scholarly articles. However we note an obvious neglect of a context sensitive approach to both the measurement of entrepreneurial activity and researching entrepreneurship in Africa. In this theoretical paper, we use postcolonial theory, and more specifically Edward Said's idea about the misrepresentation of the Orient by the Occident, to illustrate how existing global measures of entrepreneurial activity fail to provide a real account of entrepreneurship for Africa. We then propose postcolonial theory as a useful analytical tool for researching Africa's case. To justify this proposal, we analyse the region's colonial history, large informal sector, heterogeneous population of entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurship and current geopolitical changes. We then use Homi Bhabha's concept of the 'third space' and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's concept of subalternity to critically analyse entrepreneurship research in Africa. To end, we propose a shift towards methodologies which are more context sensitive, recognise the postcolonial setting of Africa and allow agency to emerge during fieldwork.

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Section: Moving Forward: Methodological Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Social Entrepreneurshipmentioning

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A Postcolonial Analysis of Entrepreneurship in Africa

Sambajee

Weston

2015

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“…The development support of social enterprises typically extends beyond the support of business and production acumen to also foster social value as integral to the enterprise. Overall, social entrepreneurship support engenders financial sustainability for small business through trade, but the underlying value creation is accepted as extending to employment and upliftment within the immediate community, and the delivery of services and products required by poorer consumers in marginalized communities (Visser, 2011).…”

Section: Social Entrepreneurshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

(Regional and) local economic development themes in contemporary South African Cities

Houghton

2015

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Local economic development has played a significant role in South African cities as an approach to achieve economic upliftment in the democratic era. Although there have been critiques of this approach in the light of project failures and the neoliberal positionality of local economic development, South African cities continue to pursue the strategy and city policy formulation currently includes a direct focus on local economic development within their long-term development strategies. Despite a sense of the need to explore new lines of development, there is apparent continuity in terms of the pursuit of what have become traditional local economic development interventions in many of the country's cities. While this study highlights the evidence of the continuation of these trends in current urban economic development strategies, a closer examination of emergent local economic development practice in Durban points towards areas in which shifts in the practice of local economic development in South African cities are beginning to take place.

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“…The intrigue in breaking down the classification the term social adapts in this setting, for it alludes to social business visionaries who produce services which are intended to fulfill fundamental needs that are not tended to by any financial or social establishment. One primary distinction that is between normal business visionaries and the societal ones is that the later ones allocates a higher importance (need) to generating SV, while economic aspect is seen as a method for accomplishing the creation of SV and a "fundamental stipulation to guarantee monetary sustainability" [4]. It is argued by [3] that "social business visionaries distinguish under-utilized assetsindividuals, configurations, apparatusand determine methods for their integration to fill the void in societal needs" whereas, [5] allude to social business as being "an imaginative procedure which happens in associations driven by social mission, planned to produce imaginative new answers for society needs that are unanswered, by utilizing a restricted assets base, which prompts social change and creates value".…”

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Measurement of Social Effect in Social Entrepreneurial Ventures

Ali¹,

Fakhruddin²,

Jahangiri³

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IJMH

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In this reality accountability has turned into an institutional foundation and measurement defines value as per increasing requirements of stakeholders. The motivation behind this paper is to address change and its effects in progress on a social level. No matter the harbinger of change is social entrepreneurial ventures, social innovation or socially obligated activities, it deciphers into a change in business as standard of the society. In this way, the dialogue of our paper spins around quality, social issue, enterprise and it associates them to the effect on social level they produce by introducing the systems used to quantify this effect and their essential reservations. The systems for measuring the societal effect found in the literature inclines toward measurement in monetary sense and it tends to disregard the significance of the psychological influence an organization may have over its objective customers. Moreover, social effect is translated from organizational aspects and of the financial specialists, disregarding the clients that are the object of the influence. Additional discoveries expose that there is no appropriate legal enactment to manage this turf and no specific regulatory frameworks to administer the social affect. Three standards are proposed supporting social effect estimation model (supportability, included quality and adaptability).

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Social Entrepreneurship in South Africa: Context, Relevance and Extent

Cited by 23 publications

References 15 publications

A Postcolonial Analysis of Entrepreneurship in Africa

A Postcolonial Analysis of Entrepreneurship in Africa

(Regional and) local economic development themes in contemporary South African Cities

Measurement of Social Effect in Social Entrepreneurial Ventures

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