Impact of Social Entrepreneurs in Entrepreneurship Development

This study is an opinion and documentary survey research that is keen to exhume the impact of social entrepreneurs cum social workers in the entrepreneurship development in Nigerian society. Thus far, there are containing arguments precisely over who and who are or counts as social entrepreneurs. There has been no consensus on the definition of social entrepreneurship because different disciplines and fields are associated with social entrepreneurship. For instance, philanthropists, social activists, environmentalist and other socially oriented practitioners are referred to as social entrepreneurs. Therefore, scholars have a clearer definition of what social entrepreneurship entails which necessarily set the functions of social entrepreneurship apart from other social oriented activities and identify the boundaries with which social entrepreneurs operate. The term social entrepreneurship describes the activities of a social entrepreneur as someone who recognises social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organise, create and manage a venture to bring about social change.