Talk:Social enterprise

message: Social enterprise is a phenomenon with at least two conflicting definitions. To Ashoka, Social Entrepreneurship is solving social problems entrepreneurially. Ashoka interprets a social enterprise as organization with a social mission that is either for-profit or with a profit generating component. To the Social Enterprise Alliance it is a non profit using earned income to fulfill part of its mission because of the inneficiency of the non profit capital market. These are related topics, but mean different things to different people. A social enterprise, is a non profit that has a revenue stream from the sale of goods or services. social entrepreneurship is more of a movement. They are related but not the same.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.139.175.142 (talk) 17:39, 23 December 2005
*The current definition seems circular.  One problem is that the word "social" alone can be interpreted different ways, so using "social" in the definition is problematic right away.  Generally this page needs to be streamlined and cleaned up: For example: why is there a mention of Russia as a root of the North American experience? The fact seems to come out of left field. DeweyQ (talk) 12:18, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Definition

message: Fast Company now does the 2008 Social Capitalist Awards, and I thought of this when I read your page: http://www.fastcompany.com/social/2008/index.html 132.174.194.95 (talk) 19:53, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Addition to awards?

message: My point is separate from the discussion on merging Social enterprise and Social entrepreneur. I think that this article should be merged with Social business. These two articles share a lot of the same information, and I think the distinction between a "Social Business" and a "Social Enterprise" is just semantics.
Reziztor (talk) 22:46, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with Social business 

message: Somebody deleted Scottish Social Enterprise Coalition - don't know why. Does it fit here? Dalkeithy (talk) 11:01, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Scotland

message: Sorry people, but to me with a few years industry experience, you are talking about leverage on the triple bottom line and then looking at turning that into specific business, or mayb that was the intention from the outset.
However, to me, the social enterprise is one that embraces current (and future) social media as a seemingly radical change to historical structured information and management.
It is an organisation that connects information through people, not hierarchical naming conventions (although they need to be in place as most technical systems currently require it!).
It is an organisation that embraces concepts like twitter and Facebook internally to disseminate information and events throughout the organisation.
It is an organisation that may even start using crowd sourcing as a way to solve issues and problems, currently especially in high profile marketing organisations, but I see few reasons why it can't be extended to all.
Thoughts?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by MalHarwood (talk • contribs) 14:10, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Different tack! 

message: Class needs review; no explicit indication that all 5 B criteria were evaluated previously in 2008.  Thanks,SBaker43 (talk) 23:03, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reassessment request 

message: I don't see anything since the  template was added in May that looks like it addresses this.  The issues I see appear to be minor (as far as organization is concerned).
*WP:APPENDIX looks OK to me; correct sequence. Navigation template at the bottom.
*Lead section seems OK.  I'm not sure there's an Infobox that's applicable.
*WP:BODY generally looks OK. Seemingly reasonable section headings. Continent sections probably need to be alphabetical and maybe without the "In" prefix. Paragraphs are generally narrative with some bullet exceptions.  The bullets could be put into a big complex table but that doesn't seem very constructive. The bullets seem to draw attention to the variations in the different countries; a good thing.
Unless someone can identify something specific about what reorganization needs to be done by October 1, I suggest the  template be removed.SBaker43 (talk) 00:54, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reorganization tag - May 2013 

message: The Caribbean and South America are not present in this article; however, social enterprise is increasingly present in these areas. I suggest some information on social enterprise efforts and impact in this part of the world be included! Gilperkins (talk) 01:53, 4 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parts of Globe Missing from Article 

message: With this edit I've removed the section discussing who coined the terms. It's original research to claim that a specific example is the earliest use. If a reliable, WP:SECONDARY source makes a case that it's the first, or is in someway creditable for coining the term as applied to the concept, then great, but the sources and the statements were too flimsy and were attracting equally dubious counterclaims. Grayfell (talk) 08:16, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  First use of the terms. 

message: Substituted at 06:25, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

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message: Hello! I have plans to edit this page to add more sources, as well as to help with the reorganization of the page, as I feel that it can be cleaner. I also hope to clarify the definition of social enterprise, as that seems to be a highly debated topic on this talk page.
--Eklui (talk) 17:07, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Intent to Edit