Deck 16: Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Question 1

A social business is not ______.

A) a charity
B) cause-driven
C) driven by poverty
D) social enterprise

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Seelos and Mair developed a model of _______ that leaders use to improve organizational capacity.

A) environmental analysis
B) continuous improvement
C) research and development
D) human resource management

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Paul Light criticizes social entrepreneurship ______.

A) as a fantasy
B) as stewardship
C) as a tool for innovation
D) for encouraging collaborations

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which tool listed below provides leaders powerful questions to answer when wanting to achieve organizational change?

A) path-goal theory
B) hierarchy of needs
C) situational leadership theory
C) social transformation life cycle

Question 5

Those reflecting the ______ school define a social entrepreneur is someone who starts a business with a social purpose.

A) nonprofit sector
B) corporate world
C) social enterprise
D) social innovation

Question 6

What is a person who creates value by improving efficiency and effectiveness in the use of society's limited resources called?

A) founder
B) capitalist
C) industrialist
D) entrepreneur

Question 7

Yunus considers voluntary giving in support of nongovernmental organizations a form of ______.

A) microfinance
B) entrepreneurship
C) trickle-down economics
D) social value proposition

Question 8

The Youth Advocacy Center encourages young people to ______:

A) set goals
B) get medical care
C) obtain job experience
D) seek drug rehabilitation treatment

Question 9

Professionalized philanthropy emerged in the United States during the ______ century.

A) 17th
B) 18th
C) 19th
D) 20th

Question 10

Which social entrepreneur helped improve the transport of farmers' goods to markets in Ghana?

A) Bill Gates
B) Richard Seshie
C) Gerald Chertavian
D) Diana Propper de Callejon

Question 11

According to Dees and colleagues, where others see problems, entrepreneurs see ______.

A) doubt
B) a quick fix
C) predicaments
D) opportunities

Question 12

The "scientific charity" movement emerged during the ______ century.

A) 17th
B) 18th
C) 19th
D) 20th

Question 13

Those who embrace the ______ school believe a social entrepreneur is a change agent who produces change that improves the condition of people and society.

A) nonprofit sector
B) corporate world
C) social enterprise
D) social innovation

Question 14

______ occurs when the right person is in the right place at the right time with the right skills.

A) Change
B) Perfection
C) Social nirvana
D) Value proposition

Question 15

What is an individual whose job is to drive creativity and innovation within an organization called?

A) enterpriser
B) intrapreneur
C) entrepreneur
D) creative director

Question 16

Crutchfield and Grant argue that exemplary organizations all have created committed ______ working on their behalf.

A) advocates
B) lobbyists
C) economists
D) entrepreneurs

Question 17

______ in developing nations are often controlled by vested interests that resist change.

A) Banks
B) Governments
C) Public schools
D) Nongovernmental organizations

Question 18

Social entrepreneurs who focus on creating wide-scale change embrace the teaching of the social ______ school.

A) change
B) enterprise
C) innovation
D) improvement

Question 19

What is the process by which organizations adhering to old ways decline and disappear called?

A) social destruction
B) social annihilation
C) creative destruction
D) organizational ruination

Question 20

The changes during the first decade of the 21st century were often disruptive and provided new opportunities for social entrepreneurship across the globe. What is this disruption called?

A) perturbation
B) disturbance
C) global innovation
D) creative destruction

Question 21

Dees and Anderson recommend the social enterprise school and the social innovation school be blended into one school referred to as ______.

A) impact socialization
B) enterprising social innovation
C) creative and innovative enterprises
D) economic and social entrepreneurship

Question 22

Worth writes that social entrepreneurs are ______ forces.

A) positive
B) disruptive
C) encouraging
D) discouraging

Question 23

Paul Light argues that the term "social entrepreneurship" should be replaced with the term ______ service.

A) civic
B) social
C) public
D) nonprofit

Question 24

Social entrepreneurship is a subject of worldwide interest to philanthropists.

Question 25

Bill Drayton is the founder of the Grameen Bank.

Question 26

Social entrepreneurship is a strategy for ______.

A) solving social problems
B) developing socialistic markets
C) developing free market economies
D) increasing tax shelters for wealthy individuals

Question 27

Ashoka was founded to identify the most promising social entrepreneurs in the world.

Question 28

Social entrepreneurs exhibit a heightened sense of accountability to their constituencies.

Question 29

Who describes social entrepreneurs as "restless people seeking to deal with problems that were not being successfully coped with by existing institutions?"

A) Steve Case
B) Henry Ford
C) Peter Goldmark
D) Joseph Schumpeter

Question 30

Habitat for Humanity is an example of a high-impact nonprofit organization.

Question 31

The Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act created the ______.

A) Social Innovation Fund
B) government grant given to Ashoka
C) presidential summit on entrepreneurship
D) Corporation for National and Community Service

Question 32

Crutchfield and Grant write that high-performing organizations ______.

A) do not share leadership
B) master the art of adaptation
C) create new markets
D) discourage nonprofit networks

Question 33

As of 2017, funding for the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act was certain.

Question 34

The theories of social entrepreneurship are similar to the theories of leadership.

Question 35

Social entrepreneurship strategies are disruptive.

Question 36

Social entrepreneurs have a low tolerance for ambiguity.

Question 37

Global governments are likely to see social entrepreneurship as ______.

A) a tool for developing socialistic economies
B) a tool for developing free market economies
C) dominant forms of business in the global marketplace
D) complementary to the traditional approach of philanthropy

Question 38

Worth writes a result of the global recession of 2007-2009 was a/an ______.

A) increase in charitable giving
B) increase in educational programs
C) decrease in government social programs
D) increase in the creation of global foundations

Question 39

Social entrepreneurship gained popularity in the 1990s due to the examples of ______.

A) Ashoka and Echoing Green
B) Duke and Harvard Universities
C) IBM and the Gates Foundation
D) Xerox and the Rockefeller Foundation

Question 40

The French verb "entreprendre" means to ______.

A) work
B) wish
C) walk
D) undertake

Question 41

Explain how Ashoka Fellows are selected.

Question 42

Identify and explain demographic characteristics common among entrepreneurs.

Question 43

Discuss the role Community Wealth Partners plays in social entrepreneurship.

Question 44

Yunus characterizes social businesses as those that have owners who are not poor.

Question 45

Explain Mohammad Alhabsyi's contributions to social entrepreneurship.

Question 46

Explain Ashoka's six categories of Fellows and provide an example of each.

Question 47

Evaluate the human rights movement within Costa Rica as it relates to social entrepreneurship.

Question 48

Select a nonprofit organization that you are familiar with. Apply the Wei-Skillern, Austin, Leonard, and Stevenson's model of entrepreneurship to that organization.

Question 49

Explain the work of the Awaaz Foundation.

Question 50

Identify behaviors, according to Dees and colleagues, that entrepreneurs engage in.

Question 51

Identify and list psychological characteristics entrepreneurs commonly exhibit.

Question 52

Explain what happens in the "perfect storm" for entrepreneurship, as identified by Brooks.