Social Enterprise: A CSR Frontier—Case Study of Tata ClassEdge

Sukanya Patwardhan ()
Additional contact information
Sukanya Patwardhan: University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership

A chapter in Corporate Social Responsibility in India, 2017, pp 167-180 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Among the many challenges that are faced by an emerging economy, the education system in India is one of them with more than 1.4 million schools and over 230 million enrolments. It is home to one of the largest and complex school education systems in the world along with China. To combat this pressing issue, the Tata Group has launched Tata ClassEdge in 2011, positioned as a social enterprise, that aims to bring about Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) enabled holistic changes in the areas of Curriculum Support, Teacher Development and Assessment and Analytics in the Indian school education system. This paper, with the case study of Tata ClassEdge puts forward that Social enterprises are a natural progression of CSR for long term, holistic social impact and social change, as opposed to CSR, which are resource dependent.

Keywords: Social enterprise; Tata ClassEdge; Social impact; Digital India; Indian schooling system; Information and Communication Technologies (ICT); Tata Trust (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:csrchp:978-3-319-41781-3_13

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783319417813

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-41781-3_13

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().