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Dairy Processing Social Venture among the Maasai in Northern Tanzania

Alexander Tetteh Kwasi Nuer

Wageningen University of Research (The Netherlands)

Summary

Social Entrepreneurship has become an important field of enquiry in the last decade. The business model of social entrepreneurs (SEs) seeks to build social venture businesses that can become self-sustainable in challenging environments. By challenging environments, SEs invest in business settings that have inadequate structures and institutions that drive normal businesses. Scale-up or exit from established social ventures businesses is important to the business model of many SEs. This case study looks at how an SE planned its exit strategy, as well as challenges it encountered. ...

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