Doing Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Northampton
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Thinking about SE
• Think about – your resources– the marketplace– peoples’ needs, and how they are linked
• Consider – your motivations for doing this– the complexity of social problems– the model of social change
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Planning SE
• Legal forms and composite forms• How social is the planned social enterprise?
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Complex Social Problems
Social Enterprise is not just about the enterprise bit- we need to
understand the social problem first
"Every problem interacts with other problems and is therefore part of a set of interrelated problems, a system of problems…. I choose to call such a system
a mess”. Ackhoff (1974)
“Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be
undecided about them.” Laurence J. Peter
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Theory of Change
Problems: linear, causal, ignores the complexity of the problem
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More complex
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Wicked Issues
• The problem is not understood until after the formulation of a solution.
• Wicked problems have no stopping rule.• Solutions to wicked problems are not right or wrong.• Every wicked problem is essentially novel and unique.• Every solution to a wicked problem is a 'one shot operation'• Wicked problems have no given alternative solutions.
• Horst & Webber (1984)• Conklin (2005)
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Rich pictures to express complexity
http://systems.open.ac.uk/materials/T552/
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What’s your motivation?
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What’s your motivation?
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Essential Ingredients
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Competition
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Legal toolkit
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How social is this plan?
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People
• Prof Simon Denny, NBS Director of Social Enterprise
• Tim Curtis, SoH, Ambassador for Social Entrepreneurship
• Wray Irwin, Director of Social Enterprise Development
• Chris Durkin, Social Sciences, Northampton Institute for Urban Affairs
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Reading material
• Ridley-Duff, R & Bull, M (2011) Understanding Social Enterprise: Theory and Practice. Sage. London
• Gunn, R & Durkin, C (2010) Social Entrepreneurship: a Skills Approach. Policy Press. Bristol
• http://unltdworld.com/hefce
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References
• Rittel, Horst, and Melvin Webber; "Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning," pp. 155–169, Policy Sciences, Vol. 4, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company, Inc., Amsterdam, 1973. [Reprinted in N. Cross (ed.), Developments in Design Methodology, J. Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 1984, pp. 135–144.],
• Conklin, Jeff; "Dialogue Mapping: Building Shared Understanding of Wicked Problems," Wiley; 1st edition, 18 November 2005
• Ackoff, Russell, "Systems, Messes, and Interactive Planning" Portions of Chapters I and 2 of Redesigning the Future. New York/London: Wiley, 1974
• Checkland, Peter B. and Scholes, J. Soft Systems Methodology in Action, John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 1990
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