Effective Management of Social Enterprises: Lessons from Businesses and Civil Society Organizations in Iberoamerica (David Rockefeller/Inter-American Development Bank)

The core purpose of social enterprise is to create value for the betterment of society. This aim lies at the center of the framework and is the end toward which all other elements in the framework must contribute. Greater alignment of these elements with the central purpose produces higher organizational coherence which contributes to superior performance.