Social Enterprise Recommendations Overview

The first conclusion for policymakers that emerges from this study is to develop capabilities among people as action resources represent the founding element of the human empowerment process. Existentially empowered people are “capable of” since they have enough resources to direct and follow their ideas towards the direction they choose. Therefore, working towards massive access to technology will amplify labor productivity, mobilize intellectual capacities, and interlink people. A second recommendation for policymakers is that once having empowered people by promoting massive access to technology, augmenting GDP per capita, improving the average years of education of the population, etc. to promote freedoms and guarantee them institutionally, regarding both formal and informal institutions. These guarantees for personal and civic agency will further promote the emergence of social entrepreneurial initiatives.

An interesting avenue of research is related with differences in social entrepreneurship within countries. The proposed theoretical framework is consistent with the idea of entrepreneurial activities undertaken by a relatively more emancipated segment of the population with impacts in the rest of the society. Assuming that poorer countries will be better represented in future samples and that people answering about social entrepreneurship will be able of differentiating the phenomenon from, for example, necessity entrepreneurship, it would be interesting to inquire: who are the entrepreneurs starting social businesses in less developed countries? Are the empowered and the emancipated segments of society doing this? Introducing the impact of foreign direct aid and of external social entrepreneurs in the data would be relevant. Following the proposed theory in this paper, empowered individuals or groups are those promoting the lives of others.
It is necessary to further study this conclusion with the literature in social entrepreneurship, in empowerment and in social movement theory, including resistance and collective mobilization, that focuses in self-managed groups or in grassroot groups that initiate emancipative initiatives without “external” interventions, Other future research opportunities include a deeper analysis of the intersection of wealth, the role of government and the emergence of social entrepreneurship; to further study the role of gender in relation to emancipatory social entrepreneurship.

1) When SEs embark on employing volunteers, they have to keep in mind the importance of promotion opportunities for the volunteers regarding their experience and expertise and also prepare an enjoyable work environment for them. 2) SEs also have to count big time on communication especially while interacting with their target audience. Since budgeting during the first period is mostlly conducted by donations and investments of donors, social enterprises have to augment their communication skills and also make the donors/investors sure about the SROI. Making and keeping networks are other tools that can help SEs perform better in this area.3) Managers are advised to mantain close relations and interactions to their customers; they are also advised to have a more creative and innovative approaches.

” The financial resources in social entrepreneurship should be directed towards replicating models that are effective in practice. On the one hand, it may affect the innovativeness of the activities in social enterprises, and on the other hand, it will also contribute to financial stability. In subsequent years, it is expected that government’s expenditure in the social sphere will be reduced and accumulated in organizing programs with expected results. Priority will be given to those social enterprises that use effective models of monetization of social influence, which lead to the consolidation of social businesses. The government should clearly identify what social enterprises need and what social tasks they will solve. The qualitatively new level of development for social entrepreneur- ship will depend on the establishment of inter-sectoral cooperation by key partners such as: government authorities and local governments (regulatory support, the main mechanism of financial support); business (mentoring, grant support); media (promotion of activities); the educational institutions (social entrepreneurship training course) and public organizations (working directly with the public with the purpose of
clarifying the value of key principles of social enterprises).”

1) A study exploring institutional logics (with respect to social entrepreneurship) occupying the organizational field, in a given region composed of several actors, is highly recommended. Such a study will likely provide academics and policy-makers with a holistic glimpse into the state of social entrepreneurship.

As the business environment is extremely unequal by territory in Romania, the existence of the necessary social services can be fundamental in taking the decision to place the new business in that location and their balanced development across the Romanian territory is mostly needed. Social services can also be considered in terms of greater involvement of the central authorities in restoring territorial balances, and especially of the local authorities, in reviving entrepreneurship and increasing the attractiveness of the local business environment for investors, through the development of agricultural market activities, wholesale centres for agricultural products, food processing industries, measures to support the employment of young people, etc.