Educating Social Entrepreneurs, Volume I

CHAPTER 9

The Organizational Form Design Studio

Elizabeth A.M. Searing

University at Albany, State University of New York

Introduction

In this exercise, you will discuss and determine the appropriate organizational form for different types of social enterprise ventures. Using the knowledge from the commentaries in this workbook, you use the responses to six key questions about the venture to fit the type that gives the venture the best chances at success based on its mission, operations, and relationship with its ecosystem.

Learning Objectives

• To familiarize potential entrepreneurs with the information and decisions required to choose an appropriate corporate form.
• To move beyond the solo entrepreneur model and into the more valid team model ...