Abstract
It is of necessity for developed economic societiesto provide philanthropic services to the societies of neighboring countries. Developed societies have resource and capacity advantages in terms of knowledge technology and organizational strength; thus, it is imperative that they provide adequate supports to the comparatively more vulnerable societies. However, due to insufficient in-depth understanding to the local socio-economic structure, work mentality and value, technology capacities, and resource condition of the local societies (or social groups), the philanthropic target and local social value often come into cognitive conflicts in the process of collaboration which ultimately affect the bilateral resource integration and effectiveness of application. The study, based on the researchers’ venture in the household water purification project in rural Vietnam villages, employed action research method to confirm the cognitive gap on philanthropy, the expectation deviation on work mission, and the action deviation effect of the organizational cultures on transforming philanthropic service into philanthropic entrepreneurship encountered in the process of executing the philanthropic projects by transnational cooperative teams in the two-year overseas services.Keywords: social enterprise, social entrepreneurship, social resource, transnational philanthropic campaign
Highlights
In the past years, this research team has been conducting in-depth study on the international social enterprise cases to promote social enterprise theories and actions, and actively engaging in social services and even social entrepreneurship consulting
The team acquired the concepts of the social entrepreneurs’ mentality, resource utility, and management design; in addition, the team explored the problems the social enterprises encountered in inner cross-cultural adaptation issues
The case project is a philanthropic service of household water purification in Bac Nin, Vietnam
Summary
This research team has been conducting in-depth study on the international social enterprise cases to promote social enterprise theories and actions, and actively engaging in social services and even social entrepreneurship consulting. The team acquired the concepts of the social entrepreneurs’ mentality, resource utility, and management design; in addition, the team explored the problems the social enterprises encountered in inner cross-cultural (enterprise culture vs social philanthropic culture) adaptation issues. To expand the capacity tests of Taiwan social entrepreneurs and to explore cross-cultural social adaptation issues, the study selected the “international society engagement” project the researchers have engaged in. The twoyear social improvement project in Vietnam helps Taiwanese youth proactively enhanced international social service experience, and confirms their own understanding on international societies and degree of control over cooperation action. In the process of confirming the obstacles lie in cross-border cooperation and local problems solving, they understand the impact of crosscultural differences on local philanthropic entrepreneurship
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