The term "social enterprise" refers to the rapidly growing number of organizations set up models for the efficient supply for basic human needs that existing markets and institutions were not able to meet. Social entrepreneurship combines the resourcefulness of traditional enterprise with a mission to change society. A social entrepreneur Ibrahim Abouleish, recently received the Alternative Nobel Prize for Sekem initiative in 2004, E-Bay founder Jeff Skoll donated 4.4 million pounds to create a social research center of business and a lot of social entrepreneurs, mixed with their business counterparts in the World Economic Forum in Davos. Social entrepreneurship offers ideas that can stimulate ideas for a more socially acceptable and sustainable business strategies and organizational forms. Because it directly affects the internationally recognized sustainable development, social entrepreneurship can also help to create a corporation to take greater social responsibility. "Hide
by Christian Seelos, Johanna Mair Source: Business Horizons 6 pages. Publication Date: May 15, 2005. Prod. #: BH135-PDF-ENG
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