Entrepreneurial Orientation, Effectuation, and the Social and Solidarity Economy: How ‘Medha Tai’ Co-Created Annapurna Pariwar
摘要
This chapter situates the founder Medha Purao Samant within the evolving cultural, political, social, and economic contexts since 1993, demonstrating her social entrepreneurial characteristics and transformational perspectives over the course of 30 years as an entrepreneur. It describes the various leading social entrepreneurial perspectives, orientations, and frameworks that explain the journey that the founder, the leadership team, and the organisation travelled. Finally, the chapter concludes by illuminating the community-oriented practices that forms the core of the empowerment-based cooperative management model.