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Titre du projet : The Role of Social Enterprises in Promoting Community Development

Pays : Kenya

Code projet : A31664

Durée  : Start date : 14 May, 2017 // End date : 19 June, 2017

Project Type : Master’s Thesis

Résumé partiel
The academic field of social entrepreneurship has been on the rise for the last 20 years. In the context of development economics, social enterprises are in vogue, and they are claimed to be potentially promising actors in the pursuit of sustained economic development. However, despite high hopes for the impact of social enterprises on development, there is widespread dissent among scholars on what constitutes a social enterprise and the value it creates. This disunity may be due to overly simplistic assumptions about the features and potential impacts of a social enterprise. Hence, this thesis examines the research question : What role do social enterprises play in promoting development ? As a part of answering this question, the thesis investigates what a social enterprise is, what value it creates and how this value contributes to promoting development. To do so, it conducts a multiple case study of nine social enterprises in Kenya. The empirical data consists of interviews collected on site during a field study trip to Kenya. To understand what a social enterprise is, and what value it creates, this thesis develops a typol-ogy of enterprises and a value dimension framework based on a literature review. To examine how the value created by social enterprises may contribute to promoting development, the thesis compiles a value chain analysis framework.

Institution : Aarhus University (AU), Denmark

Financement : 18,250 DKK

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