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2021 | Book

Social Enterprise Theoretical Framework Read chapter Read first chapter

Social Entrepreneurship

An Innovative Solution to Social Problems

Editors: Assoc. Prof. Meng Zhao, Prof. Jiye Mao

Publisher: Springer Singapore

Part of: Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" , Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

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About this book

This book incorporates theoretical framework and management cases in discussions on social enterprise in China. The authors look to address two fundamental questions about social enterprises in China that have been very controversial over the years. First, what is social enterprise? This book proposes a framework that defines Chinese social enterprises based on social entrepreneurship, and includes ten case studies for justification. Second, who are well-performed social enterprises with financial viability and proved social impact? The book describes in detail some of the leading social enterprises in China. It is aimed at a wide target audience. Practitioners will learn experience and lessons from the case studies. Academics can use the cases in different teaching contexts, and gain research inspirations from our framework and case studies. Policy makers, accreditation agencies, professional service providers, and institutional investors will learn to identify and evaluate promising social enterprises.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Social Enterprise Theoretical Framework
Abstract
Nowadays, it is a common practice to judge whether an organization is a social enterprise by the interrelationship between its social and commercial elements. This is called the dichotomic view.
Meng Zhao
SharedHarvest: From CSA to Rural Revival
Abstract
Food is humanity’s primary necessity. However, in the rapid development of urbanization and industrialization, a crisis in food safety has become one of the largest social problems. The traditional farming model which has existed for thousands of years has been gradually replaced by the industrialized model using many chemicals. It’s getting harder and harder for us to acquire pollution-free natural resources like air, water and land. At the same time, farmers can benefit less and less from this modernization process or are unable to earn sufficient incomes without overusing pesticides and fertilizers. These practices, together with pollution generated by animal husbandry, harm our food safety, as well as the health of farmers. Agriculture has become the biggest surface pollution source in China.
Yan Fu, Jingyue Xu, Jianying Wang
Xihaner Carwash: Dream Home for People with Intellectual Disabilities
Abstract
On August 8, 2015, Xihaner Carwash, a carwash employing a dozen of people with intellectual disabilities, opened at No. 11, Kaifeng Road, Futian District, Shenzhen. It washed 11,869 cars within the very first year of its foundation. On August 10, 2016, with the help of Shenzhen Xihaner Carwash, Qinghai Xihaner Carwash opened successfully. It hired 14 intellectually disabled people and four hearing-impaired people. By the end of 2017, Shenzhen Xihaner Carwash had washed up to 32,175 cars, and a total of nine more Xihaner Carwashes had opened nationwide.
Xiaoguang Li, Jianying Wang, Jingyue Xu, Qiang Wang
Chengdu Langli: Recreate a Society Adapted for the Elderly
Abstract
According to international standards, China has entered the aging society since 2000. Moreover, the aging speed is fast, and the scale and proportion of the aging population are both growing rapidly. These have led to great challenges to the goal of “every elderly person is properly supported and cared.”
Jianying Wang, Jingyue Xu, Xiaoguang Li, Qiang Wang, Yuyu Liu
DaddyLab: Let Good Money Drive Out Bad Money
Abstract
In the spring of 2015, like all the other parents, Wenfeng Wei bought some stationery for his daughter for the coming new semester. But when wrapping the new textbooks, he felt a pungent smell coming from the plastic book covers. Wenfeng Wei had been working in laboratory testing field for more than ten years. He immediately knew something must be wrong these plastic book covers. For his daughter’s health, he decided to find out where this strange smell came from. Therefore, he bought seven kinds of book covers from the stores near school gate randomly and sent them to Taizhou National Fine Chemicals Quality Inspection Center in Jiangsu Province. He paid 9,500 yuan for the center to give a comprehensive “examination” to these book covers. The testing reports showed that all the seven kinds of book covers he sent for examination contain a large number of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and phthalates.
Qiang Wang, Xiaoguang Li, Yanfang Xu, Zhuang Mi, Shuo Zhan
BeBetter Education: Introduce Financial Education to the Young People
Abstract
Shanghai BeBetter Education Consulting Center (hereinafter referred to as BeBetter Education) was registered in Shanghai Pudong Civil Affairs Bureau in July 2009. It is the first non-profit public organization dedicated to financial education of children and young people. BeBetter Education is a member of the Child & Youth Finance International, World Innovation Summit for Education, and the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network.
Yunxia Feng, Jinfeng Cai
0Fenbei: Helping the Poor People
Abstract
Poverty has always been a worldwide issue. Although human beings have made great achievements dealing with this problem, the situation of poverty is still startling. Taking the living standard of $1.25 per person per day as extreme poverty, there are 836 million people living in extreme poverty around the world, most of them in developing countries.
Yanfang Xu, Jiwen Song, Kangtao Ye, Meng Zhao, Wei Wu
Dream Cycling: Guardian of the Spiritual Journey
Abstract
Chengdu Dream Cycling Club (hereinafter referred to as “Dream Cycling”) was founded in 2013 and registered as a non-profit organization in Chengdu Civil Affairs Bureau in April 2014. It is the only professional organization providing rescue and security services for travelers entering Tibet, and the first non-profit organization in China providing outdoor self-rescue and urban safe cycling training camp. From the beginning of its establishment, Dream Cycling defined itself as “the promoter of safe cycling and the guardian of Heaven Road,” and set its main business as “providing outdoor self-rescue training, implementing rescue service, and issuing certificates and medals for cyclists entering Tibet.”
Jingyue Xu, Jianying Wang, Yuyu Liu
Rice Donate: Good Behavior Leverage Public Welfare
Abstract
In May 2017, it was just the early summer in Beijing, when everything was growing and the branches of willow trees hanging down like hair. A group of social enterprise interviewer from Renmin Business School of Renmin University of China came to a business park near Dazhong Temple and visited Rice Donate.
Qiang Wang, Shuo Zhan, Yanfang Xu, Zhuang Mi
123langlang: Help People with Dyslexia to Read Freely
Abstract
123langlang is a commercial chain education and training institution that’s dedicated to the correction and treatment of children’s reading and writing difficulties and the improvement of students’ reading and writing abilities.
Wei Wu, Jiwen Song, Yanfang Xu
Carbonstop: Carbon Management Innovation with Information Technology
Abstract
Founded in 2011 by Luhui Yan, who got a master’s degree from Oxford University, Carbonstop is China’s first carbon management software and consulting service provider. Since its establishment seven years ago, Carbonstop has been dedicated to providing products and services of consulting, training, software, and carbon neutralization to enterprises and organizations. Its core product is the self-developed “Carbon Accounting and Management Platform.” It is the first carbon management software designed for organization users in China. Currently, three of its software has been patented. It has been shortlisted in the “Climate Change Software Competition” of World Bank as the only contestant from China, and the top six “Green Life Action” winners of the British Council.
Yuyu Liu, Yujia Zhai
Metadata
Title
Social Entrepreneurship
Editors
Assoc. Prof. Meng Zhao
Prof. Jiye Mao
Copyright Year
2021
Publisher
Springer Singapore
Electronic ISBN
978-981-15-9881-4
Print ISBN
978-981-15-9880-7
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9881-4