Social Entrepreneurship:The Role Of Managerial Ties,Degree And Between-Ness Centrality In Opportunity Captures

Social entrepreneurship,an exercise that amalgamates non-profit operations and business values in quest of social impact,has the ability to empower lots of individuals around the world in social problem-solving.Social entrepreneurship cultivates original opportunities and solutions intended to(re)generate the public good.Where the government fails to perform its duties to the citizens,most at times,social entrepreneurs come in the direction of filling the breach made by the government in providing the necessary things needed by that community or society in question.There is an all-encompassing worldwide responsiveness to social entrepreneurship.Nonetheless the theory of social entrepreneurship is still at the stage of conceptualization as various nations have varied social entrepreneurship consideration particulars and methods to social entrepreneurship enterprises.This thesis investigates how managerial ties assist social entrepreneurs in discovering and capturing opportunities for their course.We also look at the moderating effect of centrality on the relationship between the social entrepreneur,managerial ties and opportunity.Drawing a sample from 300 social entrepreneurs,we recorded that,business ties have a more positive effect on opportunity than political ties and both degree and betweenness centrality positively moderates this relationship.However,social entrepreneurs are encouraged to establish ties with both government and business because they have different services to offer.But that notwithstanding,they are encouraged to have more business ties to discover and capture opportunities because it can propel the social developmental orient of developing countries.