A Systems View Across Time and Space
Table 8 Ranking of the challenges based on severity
Challenges | Severity | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Most severe (%) | Least severe (%) | ||
Challenge (1) | Related regulations are in need of further improvement | 25.6 | 7.75 |
Challenge (2) | Taxation law related to social businesses | 11.35 | 10.25 |
Challenge (3) | Lack of funding and financing | 46.25 | 3.15 |
Challenge (4) | Lack of reliable data and statistics | 18.43 | 9.28 |
Challenge (5) | Lack of communication networks among the social entrepreneurship ecosystem; linking social entrepreneurs, enterprise and / or support organization all together | 27.15 | 10.19 |
Challenge (6) | Lack of capacity building programs | 20.10 | 12.25 |
Challenge (7) | Social stereotypes about social work and revenue making related to it, thus affecting the ability to sustain | 18.50 | 13.16 |
Challenge (8) | Lack of knowledge related to social business models (revenue generation) | 32.23 | 11.25 |
Challenge (9) | Poor related education (thus the poor quality of social ideas, concepts and projects received by beneficiaries) | 44.12 | 12.42 |
Challenge (10) | Lack of qualified human resources for the social field | 23.25 | 8.34 |