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Co-enhancing Skills of Social Entrepreneurs: A Possible Application of Mobile Social Networks

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Advances in the Human Side of Service Engineering (AHFE 2021)

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The main purpose of this research is to develop a framework for co-enhancing the skills of social entrepreneurs, by deeply investigating the roles played by diverse people while participating in a social business design lab. This research adopts the case study research method and selects the Yunus Centre Social Business Design Lab in Bangladesh. The data were collected from secondary sources, including archives of social entrepreneurs from Yunus Centre Social Business Design Lab in Bangladesh, and websites of the Centre. In addition, a total of 30 interviews were conducted. We identified 25 different skills of social entrepreneurs. The results of this research show that diverse people who participated in the social business design lab played different roles to support the social entrepreneurs.

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  1. School of Knowledge Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, 923-1292, Ishikawa, Japan

    Karishma Zaman Katha, Youji Kohda & Eunyoung Kim

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  1. Centre for Economics and Public Administration, London, UK

    Christine Leitner

  2. Fraunhofer IAO, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

    Walter Ganz

  3. California State University, Orange, CA, USA

    Debra Satterfield

  4. University of Naples Parthenope, Avellino, Italy

    Clara Bassano

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Katha, K.Z., Kohda, Y., Kim, E. (2021). Co-enhancing Skills of Social Entrepreneurs: A Possible Application of Mobile Social Networks. In: Leitner, C., Ganz, W., Satterfield, D., Bassano, C. (eds) Advances in the Human Side of Service Engineering. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 266. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80840-2_54

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