Building Social Business Models: Lessons from the Grameen Experience

It is a company. While striving to achieve social goals, social enterprises

It generates income and profit. However, as we mentioned in our case, social enterprises founded by Grameen

You need to create value propositions and new value groups to match positive benefits

I will help developing countries. But the problem they are facing is that even these projects are small.

Make it economically viable (all cost recovery constraints). Nutrition is first

With social expert equations. Third, the equations of economic interests are intended to completely recover.

Founded in 1976, Grameen Bank is a pioneer in the development of microfinance and has established about 30 companies aimed at alleviating poverty. In this article we will trace the gradual development of expertise in the development of social business model by Graeme. This requires new value propositions, values ​​and profit equations, as well as business model innovation. In this article, we will present five lessons learned from this experience: Three resemble traditional business model innovation - challenge traditional thinking, find complementary partners, continue experiments We will clearly define social benefit targets clearly and early on the shareholders, and shareholders. We propose that these new business models - shareholder replacement by stakeholders as the focus of value maximization - enable capitalism to solve the overwhelming global problem.

Social business is more than just a theoretical concept. There are social enterprises all over the world including Grameen affiliates such as Grameen Bank and Grameen Danone. Reflecting the potential social benefits of this new business form and the possibility of economic development, other social enterprises just newly emerging emerged. Social enterprises can play a strong role in domestic and foreign economies, but there is still a long way to achieving this goal. Today, the assets of all the social enterprises in the world will not even exceed parts of the world economy. This is not because of the lack of growth potential but conceptually because people do not know their existence and do not leave space for themselves in the market. They are regarded as freaks and are excluded from the mainstream economy. People do not pay attention to them - indeed, they do not actually see them because their eyes are blinded by the theory taught at our school