Getting things done sustainably? Synthesis chapter on social entrepreneurship and water

Ziegler, Rafael; Gebauer, Jana; Henkel, Marianne; Lodemann, Justus; Mohaupt, Franziska; Partzsch, Lena

doi:10.4337/9781783471317.00016

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“…Upon reflection, it is unsurprising that for issues of the public good, business approaches have no or only a limited role to play. In a research project on social entrepreneurship in the water sector, we found many social entrepreneurship initiatives with innovations in civil society and politics [23]. This observation is supported by innovation theory; Joseph Schumpeter, the classic theorist of entrepreneurship and innovation, emphasized that the carrying out of new ideas can be studied in civil society and politics just as much as in the economy [26].…”

Section: Critical Discussion and Conclusionmentioning

confidence: 64%

“…Since the early 1980s -social entrepreneurship‖ has become a more widely used expression (this section is based on [23]). The term is associated with the pursuit of social and ecological goals by entrepreneurial means.…”

Section: Social Entrepreneurshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Drawing on our prior research on this strand of social entrepreneurship, we question the idea of system change that is achieved independently from government and business sectors [35]. We also cannot assume that the social of social entrepreneurs is simply -good‖ and automatically contributes to sustainable development.…”

Section: Social Entrepreneurshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We wanted to learn more about the mode of constructively dealing with sustainability challenges and about how constructive approaches make sustainability issues more accessible for new groups. The human capabilities in focus were political participation, play, education and a concern for the environment [35]. As noted above, while the WFD demands participation, in practice this is difficult to achieve, particularly in a context where people may feel disgusted and even alienated from their rivers, as Epple had observed.…”

Section: The Big Jump Challenge-a Collaborative Campaignmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Following Gandhi: Social Entrepreneurship as A Non-Violent Way of Communicating Sustainability Challenges

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Abstract:In the context of the Rio Earth Summit numerous international regimes, national policies and organizational guidelines have appeared that help translate the normative demands of sustainable development into political reality. The implementation of these instruments, however, often runs into difficulties or fails entirely. An example is the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD), a progressive approach for the conservation of freshwater that is very unlikely to be implemented by 2015, the target year. We examine in this paper how a recent variation of Gandhian non-violent communication within social entrepreneurship suggests one way to deal with this challenge. Non-violent communication, rooted in Gandhian social action, has long been part of environmental politics. It has undergone a new variation as a mode of communication in the hands of social entrepreneurship initiatives that address urgent social and environmental issues with new, practical ideas. In the conceptual part of this paper, we outline our approach to sustainability, non-violent communication and social entrepreneurship. In a further part, we present data from a trans-disciplinary experiment to illustrate and critically discuss social entrepreneurship as a mode of sustainability communication. The experiment looked at, which is based on French social entrepreneur Roberto Epple's idea of a Big Jump, is a collaborative campaign that invites young people to take action for water conservation in the context of the WFD.

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Section: Critical Discussion and Conclusionmentioning

confidence: 64%

Section: Social Entrepreneurshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Social Entrepreneurshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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