Abstract:
This paper is an exploratory attempt to understanding the nature and modus
operandi of entrepreneurship in Indian social service sector. This study highlights
the point of departure of social entrepreneurship beyond a normal profit-oriented
business enterprise to an outcome based on socially desirable benefits. Few cases
have been hand-picked for analysing the intriguing nature of this evolving hybrid
domain which transpires the boundaries of the public and private enterprises and
attempts to build a bridge between the two. Empirical data is spare in number as
the number of such ventures is very few. Although it has existed long before the
dating of the concept as ‘social entrepreneurship’ was coined, but academic cites
William N. Parker’s seminal publication (1954) as one of the first works in this
domain. But it was only from 1985 that the concept was actually used again
(apart from five sporadic studies in three decades between 1954 and 1985). This
paper is an attempt to start the dialogue for the Indian dynamism of social
entrepreneurship landscape in the published literature.
Description:
Fourteenth Biennial Conference on Entrepreneurship/ Edited by Rajeev Sharma, Sunil Shukla, Amit Kumar Dwivedi & Ganapathi Batthini
