Social entrepreneurs: Just who are they?

By P. S. Yeoh

July 2014 FEATURE
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The perennial phrase “give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime” does not capture all the essentials where social entrepreneurs are concerned. In effect, these seek to revolutionise the entire fishing industry through innovative thought.Social entrepreneurship has been likened to double or triple-bottomline business operations, doublebottom- line because these combine profit-making with a social mission and triple-bottom-line because they integrate the three Ps (People,...

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