The role of social business in poverty alleviation: from the social exchange perspective

M.F.M. Amir Khashru, Chieh-Yu Lin and Yi-Hui Ho

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2025, vol. 54, issue 3, 289-308

Abstract: The objectives of the study are to analyse the role of social business in poverty alleviation by considering the new entrepreneurs (NEs) program adoption as a mediator. This study used the social exchange theory (SET) to examine the perception of the new entrepreneurs and local people on how social business reduces poverty through the NEs program. The study engages a four-year-long ethnographic approach and conducts in-depth interviews with 31 NEs' businesses in Bangladesh. These findings illustrate that social businesses are recognised for poverty alleviation through NEs program, considering two goals, i.e., business training with financial support and, at the same time, NEs grow into self-sustaining businesses, and creating many jobs to lift local poor people out of poverty. The result is genuinely to gain a deeper understanding of the holistic social business in poverty alleviation. This study offers novel theoretical and empirical insights and implications for practitioners.

Keywords: social business; poverty alleviation; new entrepreneur; NE program; Bangladesh. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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