Case 4: The case for a socially oriented business model canvas Flashcards
What is Social Enterprise Model Canvas?
An instrument that supports researchers and social entrepreneurs for understanding or designing the structure of organizations dedicated to the pursuit of social goals.
What in the vision of Zott, Amit, Massa, business models is ?
A simplifications of real systems that are used for explaining performance and competitive advantage.
How to pursue the social goals, based on analysis of the application of the BM by Upward and Jones?
In their adaptation, a business model is the definition by which an enterprise determines the appropriate inputs,resource flows, and value decisions and its role in ecosystems whether natural, social or economic.
What is BMC?
Is to pressure entrepreneurs to consider each of the elements of the business individually and as a whole, and to undertake an exercise of constant reflection.
Why BMC isn’t immune to criticism?
The limits of this instrument its focus on the organizations and its consequent conceptual isolation from its environment, whether this is related to the industry structure or to stakeholders such as society or natural environments.
What are the challenges for social enterprises?
1) The strategy challenge:
This challenge addresses the integration and balance of public and private value so that these competing for goals leverage each other to maximize operational efficiency and effective delivery of social value.
2) The legitimacy challenge: SEs need to be perceived as trustworthy and accountable . Moral legitimacy concerns doing ‘the right thing’ according to judgments formulated by other actors in the field and SEs make claims of moral legitimacy according to the logic of the market.
3) The governance challenge: Governance defines systems and processes concerned with direction, control and accountability
What are the two main ways in which the governance of the SE can be structured?
The origin of the main sources of funding ( philanthropic donations, own revenue)
The way in which the governing board of the organization is composed.
What is the paradox of social enterprise?
The mission measurement paradox - The third challenge that SEs strive to meet is interdependent from the first two and relates to the measurement of performance with regard to social goals and impact.
What are the dimensions that non profit organizations consider?
1) Inputs - the ability to acquire and efficiently use resources to achieve resilience growth and low-term sustainability.
2) Organizational capacity - concers securing the human and structural features that enable an organization to offer programs and services
3) Outputs
4) Outcome: behavioral and environmental changes, includes the state of the target population
5) Outcome: client satisfaction - comprises the extent to which the organization satisfied create for the community or society.
6) Public value accomplishment
7) Network/ institutional legitimacy - conformity with laws
