11 No Silver Bullet: Examining the Mutual Contribution of Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Thinking in Addressing Grand Challenges

Raja Singaram
Aynur Nabiyeva

Abstract

Grand challenges require us to devise innovative methods to solve them. Both social entrepreneurship (SE) and systems thinking are pitched as effective approaches to address such complex problems. In this chapter, we explore why there has been little research at the intersection of SE and systems thinking, despite the potential contributions one could make to the other. To inspire more research in this direction, we start with a compilation of a primer on the systems thinking principles that SE researchers could use. We organize the fragmented arguments from current ...

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