Chapter 5 Conclusion and Suggestions
5.3 Limitations
The purpose of this paper is trying to understand the development of social enterprise in south-east Asia. For running a social enterprise, not only try to solve a social problem and make an impact to push changes with a business model in a society, but also a chance to let a person self-fulfillment. So people who have the thought may consider to make a social impact in a country oversea, that’s the way many western people do. Therefore, for this purpose here are several limitations on this paper, they will indicate in the following article.
1) Because the social enterprises interviewed are come from 3 south-east countries. And most countries in this area don’t have specified regulation for the definition of social enterprise. So some of the cases selected are come from internet, intermediate organization, existed reports, or recommended by interviewee. So it’s hard to identify them as a social enterprise by the same standard, and adopt the lose definition for research. But it would cause the following researchers cannot find the thread or relevance in this cases.
2) In these countries there are only 9 cases were willing to be interviewed, due to they were not available then. In the other cases, some enterprises noticed by people are tired to be interviewed. They have been dealing with people’s curiosity, and that make them can’t focus on their mission. Therefore, the data collected could be not enough.
3) This paper is trying to understand the common issues that social enterprises may confront in this area, no matter which fields social enterprise focus on. So the issues occurred in specified field were not be discussed, the related study needed to be conduct in other paper.
4) Restriction from interviewees and language: Because the study was conducted by deep-interviewee, the content is limited by the time and the status interviewees in. Besides, the language both side adopted is English, it’s not mother language for both interview and interviewee. That may cause both side misunderstand the meaning in specified word.
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5) For deep- interview, the content obtained from interviewee will influenced by the mood, emotion, or the experience interviewee think of. In addition to, it’s difficult to build mutual trust in a very short period. For example, in some countries, the role government played is very sensitive, only strong trust could render people is willing to talk about this issue.
6) Because this research is trying to let people who curious of this issue can refer to the way how to achieve their mission in south-east Asia, the cases selected were tried to avoid the cases have been reported. But at the same time, it also become harder to obtained information in this countries. If there is any information needed clarified. The mail, skype or messenger of Facebook is the ways to break through distance limitation.
5.2. Future Research Suggestions
1) Expand the number of sample: This research only choose 12 samples in Southeast
Asia for studying their business model and obstacles they have dealt with. It is suggested that the following study can expand the number of sample for illustrate more population statistic or character of the entrepreneurs.2) Compare social enterprise with the same mission or in the same field: Because it is
difficult when select the case for interviewing, this study adopted the widest definition of social enterprise. But in this case we may also lose the chance to find out the common feature in the similar type of social enterprise. So the following study maybe can focus on the social enterprise with the same mission or in the same field.63
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