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Challenges and strategies in pursuing financial and social bottom-lines: Managing for-profit social enterprises in the Philippines
Presented by: Dr. Raymund B. Habaradas, Management and Organization Department, Ramon V. del Rosario College of Business
Date of presentation: 14 October 2015
Venue: Tereso Lara seminar room (LS230), De La Salle University


Abstract
Managers of for-profit social enterprises, just like their counterparts in traditional profit-oriented firms, must adopt and implement appropriate business strategies to keep their operations viable. In addition, they must deal with the complexity of creating both financial and social value.

What strategies do these social enterprises utilize to achieve both their financial and social bottom lines? How do they implement them? Taking our cue from Dees and Anderson (2002), we attempted to validate the following propositions: (a) that Philippine social enterprises experience tension in their attempts to jointly achieve financial and social objectives, and are likely to comprise one bottom line over another; and (b) that social enterprises that utilize Dees and Anderson’s proposed strategies better manage challenges associated with having dual objectives.

Utilizing the multiple case study research design, we drew insights from the experiences of the following social enterprises: EcoIngenuity, Inc. (Jacinto & Lirio), Bayani Brew, and ECHOstore Sustainable Lifestyle. Our case study research reveals that Philippine social enterprises indeed encounter tensions as they pursue both their economic and social objectives. Successfully reconciling dual bottom lines requires business acumen on the part of the social enterprise’s owners / managers, who must not only know how to manage their internal operations efficiently, but also be able to leverage on the resources of stakeholders that are sympathetic to the enterprise’s social mission. Finally, social enterprises can benefit from an ecology of support provided by a community of like-minded individuals and institutions.


About the Author
Dr. Habaradas is the Director of the Center for Business Research and Development (CBRD) of the Ramon V. del Rosario College of Business of De La Salle University (DLSU). He teaches Management Research, Management of Organizations, and Management Action Research at the Management and Organization Department of DLSU. He received both his Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) degrees from the same university.

​Dr. Habaradas has produced work in the areas of corporate social initiatives, national innovation systems, city innovations, innovation of firms, upgrading in global value chains, and SME development. He has published in internationally-refereed journals such as the Asian Journal of Technology Innovation, the Journal of International Business Research, the Journal of Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Issues, and the DLSU Business and Economics Review.
Among his published works is a chapter in the book Production Networks, Industrial Adjustment, Institutions and Policies, and Regional Cooperation, which was cited by the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) as Most Outstanding Book in 2011. He has also written articles for opinion columns in Businessworld, Manila Standard Today, and Manila Times.

Dr. Habaradas previously served as Director of the DLSU Center for Professional Development in Business and Economics (CPDBE), as Deputy Executive Director of the DLSU-Angelo King Institute for Economics and Business Studies, and as Director of the Institutional Communication Office of DLSU. He was also one of the recipients of the Asian Public Intellectuals (API) Fellowship Program of the Nippon Foundation in 2007.

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        • Entitlement mentality: Undertones in unproductive conflict in family businesses
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        • Challenges and strategies in pursuing financial and social bottom-lines: Managing for-profit social enterprises in the Philippines
        • Mas mahal sa UP kaysa DLSU
        • Climate risk analysis on the food security in Saguday
        • Urban hydroponics for diversified agriculture: Part II
        • Impact of accessibility to schools and economic centers on poverty and gender equity in the Philippines
        • Determining the directional flows of FDI in manufacturing in the ASEAN region
        • Sapat na ba ang pagsesenyas upang tugunan ang di pagtugma sa bilihan ng paggawa?
        • Assessing the impacts of the food and cash grant on poverty alleviation in the Philippines
        • Correlates of hunger: Evidence from the Community-Based
        • Urban rooftop hydroponics for diversified agriculture: Pilot project
        • Issues on trade & investment: Implications for further research
        • Signal extraction from the components of the Philippines national accounts statistics using ARIMA model-based methodology
        • International migration and remittances: A review of economic impacts, issues and challenges from the sending country's perspective
        • Geographic profiling of poverty and accessibility
        • Mga alternatibo sa labas ng mga pandaigdigang tugon sa pagpigil sa pagbabago ng klima
        • Global economic crisis
        • Economic, demographic, & other factors affecting school participation among children in urban and rural households: The case of Pasay & Eastern Samar
        • How flexible are wages across barangays?
        • Identifying the poor using CBMS
        • Price shocks and subsidy reforms
        • The missing dimensions of poverty
        • The migration of skilled workers as a policy tool for enhancing human capital formation and raising welfare
        • The basic principles in the economics of competition law
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        • Poverty and distributional impact of alternative rice policies in the Philippines
        • Energy, Water, and Food under Climate Change: Tradeoffs and Policies
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        • Social Welfare Functions and Development: Measurement and Policy Applications
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        • Entrepreneurship in the Philippines 2014 report launch
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        • Monograph Launch-Globalization, Adjustment & the Challenge of Inclusive Growth
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      • Disaster Risk Assessment Computation Using Leontief Analysis: Theoretical Explorations in Assessing Disaster Impacts
      • Training Workshops on Impact Evaluation
      • PAGE II
      • Economic Impact of Aviation, Travel and Tourism Industries in the Philippines
      • Issues Paper on Grocery and Supermarket Retail Business in the Philippines
      • Design and conduct of the training on economic principles
      • Development of a web-based tool for disaster risk reduction
      • Promoting entrepreneurship research in South East Asia: Applying global entrepreneurship monitor
      • Comparison of vulnerability of developed and developing economies to disaster ripple effects: The case of Japan and the Philippines
      • The higher education accountability and transparency portal (HEAT Portal)
      • Policy recommendations for the expansion of the securitization market in the ASEAN+3 countries
      • International discussions on the credit rating agencies and enhancing infrastructure to strengthen regional credit rating capacity in the ASEAN+3 region
      • Development of industry career guides: Phase II
      • The roles and functions of the banking sector in the financial system of the ASEAN+3 region
      • Development of industry career guides: Phase I
      • Towards innovative, liveable and prosperous Asian megacities
      • The trends in trade, foreign direct investments and monetary flows in East Asia, and its policy implications
      • Towards greater financial stability in the Asia region: Measures for the possible use of regional monetary units for surveillance and transaction
      • Globalization, adjustment, and the challenge of inclusive growth: Furthering inclusive growth and industrial upgrading in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam
      • Partnership and advocacy for competitiveness and trade (PACT)
      • Meeting the challenges of globalization: Production networks, industrial adjustment, institutions and policies, and regional cooperation
      • Formulation of a list of investment areas to be liberalized
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