Social Bureaucracies Book Report

The third part of the book is growing or expanding an enterprise. A social enterprise should not isolate itself from other organizations because it will be hard to attain success immediately. Growing the business would also mean that there should be a marketing effort shown. The difference between the marketing of a commercial business and the social business is that in commercial business they market the product itself. In the marketing part of a social business is that they first market their advocacy then they just add the products because their primary goal is to make the viewers be aware of the social problem. This book showed us one way to grow a business; it is by using social media. Today, people show their advocacies through social

But it is useful at some times but it should be still watched and controlled. Many social enterprises have no bureaucracy because all the administrative services that they have are already supplied by the leaders. An enterprise must also deal with external bureaucracy where they will need perseverance that is in demand because other established organizations already have their own bureaucracies and it is difficult to change. Adhocracy is an alternative to bureaucracy where the enterprise could be adaptive to the change that is happening in the

They are giving ideas on how social entrepreneurs can be different from businessmen. Social entrepreneurs are focusing on solving social problems in the world. Social entrepreneurs can also be called humanitarians because they envision a better world for the people in need and they promote human welfare. They feel empathy towards the people who need help and they would just want to help them make their live better. Establishing a social enterprise does not always mean that the organization would already go international just because the entrepreneur wants to have a better world. The enterprise does not need to be globalized immediately. Daniel Lavin developed five keys to determine if the products of the enterprise are being benefitted locally. The keys are: (1) Local shows if the materials to be used in making the products could easily be seen in the community itself and if the methods to be used can be easily done by the people. (2) Ownership having irresponsible management and ownership can result to failure in practicality, profitability and accountability. (3) Repeatability is important because the partner community should be able to do the products themselves repeatedly having the constant quality of the products. If the enterprise would be successful, the other communities should not be able to duplicate the (4) Profitability should be sustained even if the investors