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Name: The transformation of Social Entrepreneurship
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Oxfam in Lebanon

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👇 3 main things characterize #SocialEntrepreneurship transformation in the recent years: 1. Managerial structuration 2. Technological intensity 3. Attractiveness for impact-oriented investors Find out more in the video with Prof. Mario Calderini! TIRESIA Polimi SEEN Platform Oxfam in Lebanon COSV - Coordinamento delle Organizzazioni per il Servizio Volontario - Beyond Group OXFAM Italia European Union in #Lebanon #See_Change #SocialImpact

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Social entrepreneurship is a entrepreneurial concept that we have been familiar with since very, very many years. But social entrepreneurship is in the recent years undergoing a very deep and important transformation. And the transformation is characterized by three things that I would like to mention with you. The first thing is. So-called managerial structuration. Social entrepreneurship is historically very much related and tied in with the nature of the entrepreneur, right? It is the idea, the spirits of the values of the entrepreneur that define the social enterprise and sometimes this has resulted in very fragile. Organizational structure. What's happening now is that many social enterprises are pursuing. Managerial structuration. That means bringing in. Competencies from management, from finance, so skills that would allow the social enterprise to be managed in a more business oriented way and a more solid way that this is the first transformation. The 2nd transformation is. In my opinion, the most important there is technological intensity. Technological intensity is the fact that social enterprises are usually and historically and by definition, if you want labour intensive organization. And if you look back past 50 years, probably the adoption of technology also very simple technology has not been very popular among social entrepreneurs. Now things are changing. The reason is that technologies are becoming commodity. That means that certain commodity is certain. Technologies are very cheap, very easy to adopt and so it is feasible. That social enterprise start using for example digital technologies in order to improve their delivery of social good and even to scale the social impact that they are able to believe. This has a consequence of course 1st that it turns a labor intensive organization into a capital intensive organization and there can be some how problematic the 2nd is that. It makes the the social enterprise and the social business. White abstract given some, sometimes more profitable. And this has a third consequence that I would like to mention. On the one side, the fact that the social business becomes more attractive because of the efficiency that is brought in by technology makes. The social enterprise more attractive for investors. If you want for a specific kind of investor that would combine on its own account. A social purpose and. A desire for. Return financial returns. On the other side, um. The adoption of technology making the organization more capital intensive will probably create an appetite for finance. In social enterprises and this can be a very interesting opportunity of development. On one side, the adoption of technology makes the social enterprise more attractive for financial investors or for impact oriented financial investors on the other side. It develops an appetite for finance and social enterprises, and I think that this match is very important and that public policies and incubators and accelerators should work very hard to facilitate this match between demand for financial resources and supply of financial resources. And of course, this will make. Um. Social enterprise is more effective and more powerfully in their learning, their social impact.

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