Document Type : Original Article
Authors
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Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Kashan University, Kashan, Iran
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PhD student of social issues of Iran, Kashan University
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Department of social science, Kashan university, Kashan Iran
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Department of Management, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran
Abstract
Purpose: This research was conducted with the aim of studying the future of social entrepreneurship in Iran with regard to social entrepreneurship and the challenges facing it for the country's macro-policy institutions. Social entrepreneurship seeks social value by applying innovative, proactive and risky behavior and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize, create and manage an investment to create social change (a social capital).
Method: To conduct this research, an in-depth interview with 13 experts in the field of social entrepreneurship (graduates and students of social sciences, entrepreneurship, management and economics) with lived experience of social entrepreneurship was used and in order to analyze the data In the first phase, theme analysis was used, in the second phase, the layered-causal analysis approach was used. The theme saturation method was used as standard for the end of sampling.
Findings: From the analysis of interviews with experts, the main and sub-themes were extracted, and from the layered analysis - Ali at the level of litany, mart-marti, limited access order, black hole and jaguar; At the level of social causes, war, good governance, Aristotle's wheel paradox, catanaxy; At the level of discourse, rabid neoliberalism, risky society, community empowerment, liberating collectivism, and at the level of metaphor and myth, Koch Zibast, Ekwan Deo, Uzar Haish, Hoho Gail, and Minerva's Owl were obtained.
.Conclusion:Providing solutions including culture building, redefining interventionism in the matter of supporting social entrepreneurship, creating suitable economic, legal and political platforms for the development of social business environment was one of the most important strategic prescriptions for the country's macro-policy-making apparatus.
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