Social Entrepreneurship - A solution to societal challenges

Abstract

It is widely accepted that Government and the conventional entrepreneurs cannot adequately meet all citizens’ social needs especially in developing countries, hence the need for social entrepreneurship to fill this gap. Immense social entrepreneurship researches have tended to focus on renowned social entrepreneurs’ experiences, personal characteristics and success factors. This study attempted to investigate how social entrepreneurship alleviates societal challenges in Uganda basing on four social entrepreneurship cases. The findings reveal that social entrepreneurship through; social motive, social opportunity exploitation, innovation and resource mobilization alleviates societal challenges. Policy makers should provide enabling environment; and encourage conventional entrepreneurs enlist corporate social responsibility