A brief Institutional Analaysis of Social Business as Option for Startups in Nepal

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Ingeborg Patsch

A brief In

stitutional

Analysis

of

Socia

l Busin

ess in N

epal

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Underlying Theories

Kim Alter (2015) Christian Felber (2012)

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Social Business Typology

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Institutional Analysis

Based on Hollingsworth (2002)

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Norms & Values• Ariely: social

norms and economic norms contradictory

Level 1 & 2 Institutional Arrangements

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• Health Sector• Finance Sector• Business regulation• Social Business

Sector?• Social Busines

Regulations?

Level 3 & 4

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Tentative distribution of Social Business in Nepal

Type A – Customer Type B - EmploymentType C - Supplier Type D - EnvironmentType E - Society

inside KTM-Valley: 31

outside KTM-valley: 18

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Customer• Does it reach to customers, who really needs it? • Is it a synergic satisfier of basic human needs (Max-Neef)?

Environment• Is the product designed towards a cradle to cradle-principle? • If not: does it internalize environmental costs?

Employees• Can the level of income give security and sustain families?• Are the working conditions able to adjust to humans?

Level 5 (Common Good Matrix)

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• SE reaching level 3 Sectors: embedding needed

• Level 4: More research: Lyne et al for Cambodia

• Measurement tools and incentives for Level 5

• Continuing dialog and academic reflection

Conclusion