Creating wealth through social entrepreneurship : a case study from Malaysia

Social entrepreneurship has become a common interest among the academicians and practitioners due to its enormous opportunities to challenge, question and rethink concepts and assumptions from different fields of management and business research. This study was carried out to understand the social e...

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Main Authors:	Mhd. Sarif, Suhaimi, Ismail, Yusof, Sarwar, Abdullah Al-Mamun
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	TextRoad Publication 2013
Subjects:	HF5549 Personnel management
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spelling	iium-307322015-04-23T09:19:23Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/30732/ Creating wealth through social entrepreneurship : a case study from Malaysia Mhd. Sarif, Suhaimi Ismail, Yusof Sarwar, Abdullah Al-Mamun HF5549 Personnel management Social entrepreneurship has become a common interest among the academicians and practitioners due to its enormous opportunities to challenge, question and rethink concepts and assumptions from different fields of management and business research. This study was carried out to understand the social entrepreneurship phenomenon in the context of developing nations such as Malaysia. The main purpose of this study was to explore a particular social phenomenon on how wealth can be created through social entrepreneurship. A qualitative case study approach was adopted since this facilitates in assessing and evaluating the particular phenomenon more intensely. Data had been collected through interviews which were conducted over a three-week period around Klang Valley, Malaysia. Convenient sampling method was adopted to identify the respondents for this study. This study has highlighted few of the important components of social entrepreneurship in Malaysia such as overall concept regarding social entrepreneurship, motivation for involvement and value creation. This study believes that lack of political commitments and absence of creation healthy environment required for social entrepreneurial growth are the limiting factors in the process of the adequate supply of reasonable number of social entrepreneurs. Firm commitments of the power cliques, aggressive efforts in creating entrepreneurial environment besides provision for all essential common support services and assistance may speed up the supply of social entrepreneurs in Malaysia. TextRoad Publication 2013-03-11 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/30732/1/J._Basic._Appl._Sci._Res.%2C_3%283%29345-353%2C_2013.pdf Mhd. Sarif, Suhaimi and Ismail, Yusof and Sarwar, Abdullah Al-Mamun (2013) Creating wealth through social entrepreneurship : a case study from Malaysia. Journal of Basic and Applied Scientific Research, 3 (3). pp. 345-353. ISSN 2090-4304 http://www.textroad.com
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description	Social entrepreneurship has become a common interest among the academicians and practitioners due to its enormous opportunities to challenge, question and rethink concepts and assumptions from different fields of management and business research. This study was carried out to understand the social entrepreneurship phenomenon in the context of developing nations such as Malaysia. The main purpose of this study was to explore a particular social phenomenon on how wealth can be created through social entrepreneurship. A qualitative case study approach was adopted since this facilitates in assessing and evaluating the particular phenomenon more intensely. Data had been collected through interviews which were conducted over a three-week period around Klang Valley, Malaysia. Convenient sampling method was adopted to identify the respondents for this study. This study has highlighted few of the important components of social entrepreneurship in Malaysia such as overall concept regarding social entrepreneurship, motivation for involvement and value creation. This study believes that lack of political commitments and absence of creation healthy environment required for social entrepreneurial growth are the limiting factors in the process of the adequate supply of reasonable number of social entrepreneurs. Firm commitments of the power cliques, aggressive efforts in creating entrepreneurial environment besides provision for all essential common support services and assistance may speed up the supply of social entrepreneurs in Malaysia.
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author	Mhd. Sarif, Suhaimi Ismail, Yusof Sarwar, Abdullah Al-Mamun
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title	Creating wealth through social entrepreneurship : a case study from Malaysia
title_short	Creating wealth through social entrepreneurship : a case study from Malaysia
title_full	Creating wealth through social entrepreneurship : a case study from Malaysia
title_fullStr	Creating wealth through social entrepreneurship : a case study from Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Creating wealth through social entrepreneurship : a case study from Malaysia
title_sort	creating wealth through social entrepreneurship : a case study from malaysia
publisher	TextRoad Publication
publishDate	2013
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Creating wealth through social entrepreneurship : a case study from Malaysia

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