#18 Social Entreprenuership in Mexico

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The purpose of this project was to understand how social enterprises in Mexico are a mean to reduce poverty. This because the notion of social entrepreneurship has shown to effectively contribute with innovative and effective solutions using a range of organizational formats to maximize social impact and bring about change (Nicholls & Cho, 2006); nevertheless, the concept itself has only been recently recognized in Mexico and therefore the research is still new and limited (Conaway, 2018). My study is of qualitative and exploratory nature and follows an inductive research approach. Over one-month fieldwork to the regions of Mexico City and Guadalajara, research was conducted on ten case studies of social enterprises from distinct sectors that are part of the social field. By uncovering determinant approaches towards social value creation, understanding the different attributes of social enterprises business models, and analyzing supportive elements in the social entrepreneurial ecosystem, this study identified how the study cases impact positively communities and scale its solutions. It was concluded that actors aiming to social justice should reconsider their perspective in regards to the country's social situation and adopt a fact-based worldview (Rosling et al., 2018) that will enable them to acknowledge more realistic real situation, make informed decisions, and achieve a more significant result. Finally, the study closes underlying the importance of achieving social change through the collaborative effort of a whole social-oriented community rather than the result of individual efforts.