Social Entrepreneurship Portfolio

This was an interesting article. I tend to be more of a skeptical person in nature and have always been taught to be skeptical when reading things online. I was honestly a little skeptical reading this as I found something that they said about Gates to be wrong, I will discuss that below. Becuse business is constantly growing and changing it does help to be skeptical of new businesses, practices and even the people involved that you may work with/for in the futrue.  Christian O'Christiansen, the writer of this article did make a good point about social responsibility and that more owners and CEO's do need to be more socially responsible in what they do as a person and what their company does. This ties in with what I found out about Gates and their social responsibility that is wrong.O'Christiansen said that  "Gates couldn't care less  about human welfare." (O'Christiansen) I found this interesting because Gates and his foundation does a lot of work that b...

Social entrepreneurship represents agency in a highly networked global, capitalist economy through the use of the trophic pyramid.  In this pyramid we see the use of resources at the bottom, manufacturing in the middle and services at the top. Capital is very important in capitalism. By having capital, social entrepreneurship can look into using that capital to buy or trade for the resources needed to start an entrepreneurship. This being land and labor. Without having some form of land, whether it be private or public, it is hard to build a social enterprise. The way that this is global is very important. Take for example, countries in Asia have land for companies to manufacture factories to build their products, that western countries, like the United States, doesn’t. In this example, the States would use their capital to get the resources they need from other countries and use them to their advantage.