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Effectiveness of a social entrepreneurship in Malaysia - the case of urban outreach

This study scrutinises effectiveness of a social NGOs in Malaysia in which deals with urban poverty. While government and other NGOs have looked at rural poverty, urban poverty especially amongst minority group has been sidelined. This is where NGOs could fill the void. Effectiveness of social entre...

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Main Authors: Mohd Rafi Yaacob, Mohammad Ismail, Mohd Nazri Zakaria
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2015
Online Access:http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/9127/1/14-ICEE-2015.pdf
http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/9127/
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spelling my.umk.eprints.91272022-05-23T11:41:22Z http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/9127/ Effectiveness of a social entrepreneurship in Malaysia - the case of urban outreach Mohd Rafi Yaacob Mohammad Ismail Mohd Nazri Zakaria This study scrutinises effectiveness of a social NGOs in Malaysia in which deals with urban poverty. While government and other NGOs have looked at rural poverty, urban poverty especially amongst minority group has been sidelined. This is where NGOs could fill the void. Effectiveness of social entrepreneurship can be measured in terms of innovation and proactiveness. Urban Outreach is a pseudo name for the selected NGO. As far as this case study is concerned, Urban Outreach is effective enough. The NGO implied innovation in managerial aspects and deliveries, this is achieved because of proactiveness of staff. Organisational effectiveness of Urban Outreach is well demonstrated when it able to innovate and to act proactively eventhough it was capitalizing meager resources. This case can be used as a success factor by other organisations to run social entrepreneurship. 2015 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed text en http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/9127/1/14-ICEE-2015.pdf Mohd Rafi Yaacob and Mohammad Ismail and Mohd Nazri Zakaria (2015) Effectiveness of a social entrepreneurship in Malaysia - the case of urban outreach. In: 1st International Conference on Empowering Entrepreneurship (ICEE 2015), 08 -09 June 2015, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. (Unpublished)
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description This study scrutinises effectiveness of a social NGOs in Malaysia in which deals with urban poverty. While government and other NGOs have looked at rural poverty, urban poverty especially amongst minority group has been sidelined. This is where NGOs could fill the void. Effectiveness of social entrepreneurship can be measured in terms of innovation and proactiveness. Urban Outreach is a pseudo name for the selected NGO. As far as this case study is concerned, Urban Outreach is effective enough. The NGO implied innovation in managerial aspects and deliveries, this is achieved because of proactiveness of staff. Organisational effectiveness of Urban Outreach is well demonstrated when it able to innovate and to act proactively eventhough it was capitalizing meager resources. This case can be used as a success factor by other organisations to run social entrepreneurship.
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author Mohd Rafi Yaacob
Mohammad Ismail
Mohd Nazri Zakaria
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Mohammad Ismail
Mohd Nazri Zakaria
Effectiveness of a social entrepreneurship in Malaysia - the case of urban outreach
author_facet Mohd Rafi Yaacob
Mohammad Ismail
Mohd Nazri Zakaria
author_sort Mohd Rafi Yaacob
title Effectiveness of a social entrepreneurship in Malaysia - the case of urban outreach
title_short Effectiveness of a social entrepreneurship in Malaysia - the case of urban outreach
title_full Effectiveness of a social entrepreneurship in Malaysia - the case of urban outreach
title_fullStr Effectiveness of a social entrepreneurship in Malaysia - the case of urban outreach
title_full_unstemmed Effectiveness of a social entrepreneurship in Malaysia - the case of urban outreach
title_sort effectiveness of a social entrepreneurship in malaysia - the case of urban outreach
publishDate 2015
url http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/9127/1/14-ICEE-2015.pdf
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