Table 2 Social business format checklist taken from social business enterprises
From: Business format in social entrepreneurships for Bangladesh’s water sector
| Component | Sub-Component | Variable |
|---|---|---|
| Core strategy | Business mission | Opportunity driven, necessity driven. |
| Market scope | A network of rural people. | |
| Basis for differentiation | Direct sales (door to door sales, rural sales program), research and training facilities. | |
| Strategic resources | Core competencies | Entrepreneurial skills, corporate responsibility, reduced production cost. |
| Strategic assets | Distribution by local female, organic products | |
| Core processes | Employment generation, nutrition, health, waste recycling, energy, education, empowerment of rural women, livestock, halal, free treatment to poor, childcare program for children, rearing of organic cattle, establishment of a rural center (product and service innovation). | |
| Customer Interface | Organization structure | Business partnership, unique proximity based social business model, social business venture, welfare trust, cooperative, non-profit organization. |
| Relationship dynamics | Strong direct network, social compliance standard | |
| Pricing structures | Market prices (set to make the enterprise self-sustaining) through direct sales. | |
| Value network | Suppliers | Individual entrepreneurs, employees of the company, small and medium enterprises, multinationals, governmental organizations. |
| Partners | Partnership with business (GP), (bata and care), community farmers’ level. | |
| Coalitions | Business, communities. |
