Challenges of Social Entrepreneurs Collaboration to Alleviate Disparity at Periphery

Abstraksi

Inequality is problematic. The government’s systemic planning to accelerate growth by building infrastructure will be counterproductive if the mental and institutional infrastructure are not fostered proportionally. Therefore, sustainability of mental and institutional infrastructure development require commitments and persistence of all stakeholders. In this case, social entrepreneurs are the appropriate actors that deserved this responsibilities because they have social objective mission, volunteering passion, and creativity as entrepreneurs. However, the problem of our periphery areas are very complex, whereas social entrepreneurs often operated contextually. For that reason, collaboration of social entrepreneurs is the efficient and effective way to overcome inequality problem in periphery. Nevertheless, collaboration is not an easy thing to conduct. Despite having equally good goals, this collaboration remains problem-prone. According to Berger, Cunningham, and Drumwright (2004), there are 6 things that routinely become problems, namely misunderstanding, misallocation of cost and benefits, mismatches of power, mismatched partners, misfortunes of time, and mistrust. Through in-depth interviews to the multi-field social entrepreneurial representatives who are likely to collaborate, the research will observe if these 6 issues are likely to occur and then identify whether there are potential of other problems and what collaborative model is most appropriate to reduce potential problems. This research is expected to obtain valuable information about factors that must be prepared by enablers to ensure the realization of social entrepreneur’s collaboration. The result of the study can be used to address problems in periphery more effectively.