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Title: Social entrepreneurship interventions in the HIV/AIDS sector : a social entrepreneurship - social work perspective
Authors: Chandra, Y 
Shang, L
Issue Date: Jan-2021
Source: International social work, Jan. 2021, v. 64, no. 1, p. 5-23
Abstract: Despite the growing interest in social entrepreneurship research in the social work literature, very little research examines how social entrepreneurs tackle social work challenges in the HIV/AIDS sector. Consequently, we lack research on how social entrepreneurship might contribute to social work’s domain of healthcare. In this article, we employ grounded theory research to study how a group of social entrepreneurs (N = 58) selected as Fellows by Ashoka, one of the world’s most influential social entrepreneurship support organizations, solve HIV/AIDS problems. This article identifies four major interventions that social entrepreneurs employed in tackling HIV/AIDS problems: relational, service, economic, and policy. We analyzed these four primary interventions and classified them into a typology based on (1) locus of change (institutional-oriented or macro social work vs agent-oriented or micro social work), (2) resources used (material/utilitarian vs symbolic/normative), and (3) client–social enterprise relations (client as recipient vs client as co-creator). This article contributes to social work research by demonstrating the possibility of integrating multilevel (e.g. micro and macro) and multidimensional (e.g. service, economic, and policy) interventions in addressing HIV/AIDS problems. It also suggests avenues for future research to lessen the gap between social work and social entrepreneurship research so as to advance social work research.
Keywords: Health
HIV/AIDS
Social entrepreneurship
Social work
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Journal: International social work 
ISSN: 0020-8728
EISSN: 1461-7234
DOI: 10.1177/0020872818807735
Rights: This is the accepted version of the publication Chandra, Y., & Shang, L. (2021). Social entrepreneurship interventions in the HIV/AIDS sector: A social entrepreneurship–social work perspective. International Social Work, 64(1), 5–23. Copyright © 2019 (The Author(s)). DOI:10.1177/0020872818807735.
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