Week Four: My Research Proposal

Leadership in Social Business

                In recent years, the world faced significant unrest − poverty, natural disaster, wars, economic recession and other confusions. The more economic growths, the more disparity occurs between the poor and the rich. The bigger society becomes, the more people hurt the nature. To solve this tough social problems and economic challenges, it is necessary to find a new approach. Social business can be a main stream of finding solution. They seek not only their profits, but also put importance on following their missions: how to give a positive impact on society. Grameen Bank is one of the famous social ventures that lends loans to poor people in developing country to give them opportunities to get themselves out of poverty. In Japan, Daichi wo Mamoru Kai is known as a big social business company that adopts organic agriculture to Japanese farms in order to conserve environment and support Japanese farmers. Social business will be the key to make sustainable society in this difficult day and age. Therefore, identifying essential factors to be a social entrepreneur will help us to increase the number of social ventures. My research writing paper would evaluate what kind of leadership is required in social business. So far, research has been done by Lynn Barendsen and Howard Gardner. They argue whether social entrepreneur is the new type of leader. Also, another article was found which describes the history of social business and evaluate the features of social business leader(Andrew Mawson, 2008).

The reason why I choose this topic is that, I am working as an internship in social business company. The name is Kaien, which main mission is helping development disorder people. They have difficulties in communicating with people, studying and finding jobs. So we have program for training them in order to develop their skills, and they can have experience what kinds of jobs they can do before going to society.

Through working in social venture, I became interested in social entrepreneur. I think my internship experience here will help writing my Research Writing.