Abstract:
Johanna Mair and Ignasi Martf (2006) defined social entrepreneurship,
as a practice and a field for scholarly investigation, provides a unique
opportunity to challenge, question, and rethink concepts and
assumptions from different fields of management and business research.
Empirical evidences and a pilot survey run by researcher confirm that
research problem appears on entrepreneurship and social contribution.
Researcher arises "do all entrepreneurships contribute to social
development" as a research question. Purpose of this research is to know
entrepreneurial contribution towards social development. Researcher
adopts "head count" criteria of European Commission and Investment
criteria of India for identifying entrepreneurs. 100 entrepreneurs have
been selected as respondents to respond to these questions. A convenient
sampling is made by the researcher for easily collecting data. Data were
collected using questionnaire. SPSS was applied for data presentation
and analysis. It is concluded that of the two types of Micro and Small
Entrepreneurs, micro entrepreneurs are more towards on social
entrepreneurship rather than Small entrepreneurs.
