Supporting structures

how to built a #socent industry

transformations and

challenges

There are many old and new

tensions in the field of

#socent considering the

extension (definition) and

population inside (models).

This is also true for the

different subject that support

social enterprise

The change regards the

organizations but especially

the way in which they

intend to support social

enterprise (approaches and

methods)

•many hidden social

enterprises

•overlapping with other

definitions

•strong concentration in

niches

•low visibility with

customers and public

opinion

•not just a (low cost)

service provider, but also

policy makers

•competition of different

ways to produce social

value

•mismatch between

demand and supply of

financial resources

promote visibility underlining characteristics of homogeneity (emerging sector

in search of identity)

two supporting mechanism: replication of the business and service model

(wise) + activities that complete the entrepreneurial action of the enterprises

(communication, recruitment)

self-producted support, valorising internal skills (little appeal in cunsulting and

training markets)

supporting (in the recent past)

the support as a back room of a workshop

manage core functions, directly related to entrepreneurial action (the support

structure as an entrepreneur)

to intermediate relationships with different actors (finance, consulting,

university, think tank… ecosystem’s perspective)

promote co-production processes (support structure like a district that enable

prosuming, also involving the beneficiaries)

supporting: new meanings and

strategies

network as an access point

from homogeneous to multistakeholder structures (more subjects that want - or

declare - to promote and/or collaborate with #socent)

by networks that coordinate to networks that enable (advocacy, social tech):

focus on the communities, not just links between organizations

from background to interface (user center networks, impact measurement)

Directions (and drivers) of

change

Localized (capacity to mobilize), artificial (building relations), interconnected

(even vertically)

General conditions:

o community empowerment

o new policies for general interest services

o social value networks

o outcomes focus (evidence on social impact)

o pivoltal role of #socent for economic and social wellbeing

o holistic program of support (management and education)

Looking for benchmark

brands to scale up innovation (multi-local approach)

campaigns that create new marketplaces (buy social)

networks that co-design and implement policies (implementation structure)

initiatives that promote cross fertilization between different models of

management (and reporting) the social value chain

Others promising practices