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Social Enterprise: A CSR Frontier—Case Study of Tata ClassEdge

In: Corporate Social Responsibility in India

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  • Sukanya Patwardhan

    (University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership)

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Among the many challenges that are faced by an emerging economy, the education system in India is one of them with more than 1.4 million schools and over 230 million enrolments. It is home to one of the largest and complex school education systems in the world along with China. To combat this pressing issue, the Tata Group has launched Tata ClassEdge in 2011, positioned as a social enterprise, that aims to bring about Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) enabled holistic changes in the areas of Curriculum Support, Teacher Development and Assessment and Analytics in the Indian school education system. This paper, with the case study of Tata ClassEdge puts forward that Social enterprises are a natural progression of CSR for long term, holistic social impact and social change, as opposed to CSR, which are resource dependent.

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  • Sukanya Patwardhan, 2017. "Social Enterprise: A CSR Frontier—Case Study of Tata ClassEdge," CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance, in: Nayan Mitra & René Schmidpeter (ed.), Corporate Social Responsibility in India, pages 167-180, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:csrchp:978-3-319-41781-3_13
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-41781-3_13
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