A Career As A Social Entrepreneur

Social entrepreneurship is oftentimes understood as originating from a social mission as well as creativity that comes from any entrepreneur. More and more research has evolved about the idea of opportunity recognition in which social entrepreneurs develop or form their ideas to successfully help a greater social mission. Additionally, researchers have found that an entrepreneur’s opportunities are reasonably influenced by the background that he or she has. However, when considering social entrepreneurship, we have yet to establish the opportunity recognition that they have versus a regular entrepreneur that does not have a social mission in their focus. It is interesting that most of the focus is on how the social creativity happens but not where it begins or unfolds. …show more content…
This article explores the topic in more detail in regards to social entrepreneurship. The theoretical approaches that were utilized in order to explore the topic more would be rational/economic and effectuation. The rational/economic approach says that entrepreneurs find an opportunity like a new product or company that comes from a decision-making process to apply the idea. This view comes from seeing opportunities as “objective experience with a presence distinct from human perception as well as waiting to be noticed by creative and ready individuals.” (Alvarez & Barney). The research stems from wondering why individual entrepreneurs take the opportunities that most do not. Understanding the approach, we can note that most entrepreneurs address a social issue in mind and then discover their desired outcome along the way. Following that, they can then assume the necessary resources in order to achieve the mission of the