Youth-Based Social Entrepreneurship: Post-Tsunami Crisis Interventions

8 Pages Posted: 9 Mar 2008

Date Written: March 8, 2008

Abstract

This article analyzes the social entrepreneurial strategies of young college students and their professor who designed a series of interventions during a semester course titled OB 490 Becoming a Global Change Agent. Immediately following the devastation of the Asian tsunami in December 2004, this group formed teams and prepared projects to be implemented in Thailand's coastal areas where considerable death and destruction occurred. After the course ended, over a hundred volunteers traveled to Khao Lak and worked to rebuild villages, schools, families, and income-generating projects. Details about the structure, strategies, and impacts of these interventions are reported, their ripple effects, as well as suggestions for future social entrepreneurship outreach.

Keywords: social entrepreneurship, Third World development, strategic interventions

Suggested Citation

Woodworth, Warner P., Youth-Based Social Entrepreneurship: Post-Tsunami Crisis Interventions (March 8, 2008). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1104312 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1104312

Warner P. Woodworth (Contact Author)

Brigham Young University ( email )

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United States
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