Exploring Social Work Practice in the Area of Social Entrepreneurship
Exploring Social Work Practice in the Area of Social Entrepreneurship

Author(s): Hue Thi Minh Dao
Subject(s): Pedagogy
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: social work; social entrepreneurship; social enterprise; social work practice; social entrepreneur
Summary/Abstract: Social entrepreneurship has emerged as a potential alternative to be explored and piloted in the recent years. This concept and its organizational form, known as social enterprise, have received much attention from social change deliverers, including social workers who have been coping with the challenges of neo-liberal discourse. This paper explores the congruencies between social work and social entrepreneurship by capturing and gaining insights into social work practice in some specific social enterprise settings. The research shows interconnections and complementarities between social work and social entrepreneurship, suggesting to social workers a potential for collaboration and adoption of social entrepreneurship, without being cautious of the remaining debates around its contested nature and complex formality. Thus, further research should be conducted to explore and affirm which definition, which approaches, and which areas of implementation are suitable to social work profession. Further research is also necessary to discover the insights of particular groups of social-workers-turned-social-entrepreneurs.

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