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Challenges facing social entrepreneurship

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  • Amr Seda
  • Mamdouh Ismail

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Purpose - Although there are over 55,000 social enterprises operating in Egypt, the social entrepreneurship field is still failing to create the desired social change. This paper aims to explore the challenges faced by the field with a special focus on government related challenges as well as offer a set of recommendations to the Egyptian government to enhance the field. Design/methodology/approach - The research was carried out in two phases; reviewing the literature around the topic through a secondary research followed by an empirical research interviewing four social enterprises, the ministry of social solidarity and experts in the field of social entrepreneurship. Findings - The paper arrived to several challenges and they were organized into three main themes: challenges related to policy-making and other legal aspects; challenges related to institutional and operational support; and challenges related to social, educational and cultural awareness of the field and its ecosystem. The paper also came up with a set of nine recommendations directed to the Egyptian Government. Originality/value - The originality and value of this research is that it offers first hand viewpoints of the challenges facing the field of social entrepreneurship in Egypt as well as offer practical recommendations to the Egyptian Government to overcome them.

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  • Amr Seda & Mamdouh Ismail, 2019. "Challenges facing social entrepreneurship," Review of Economics and Political Science, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 5(2), pages 162-182, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:repspp:reps-03-2019-0036
    DOI: 10.1108/REPS-03-2019-0036
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