An Extended LBWA Framework in Picture Fuzzy Environment Using Actual Score Measures Application in Social Enterprise Systems

1. Introduction

The society acts as a backbone to the growth and reform of any nation and human capital development. Organizations also get benefitted from societal developments. Thus, organizations and policymakers worldwide have been increasingly emphasizing addressing the issues like wage rationalization, poverty prevention, health and hygiene, a shelter for all, education to all, food, and nutrition towards society's development (Doherty et al., 2014). The concept of social entrepreneurship (SE) first came into existence in the 1960s and 1970s, and subsequently, Bill Drayton of Ashoka (a leading global association of social entrepreneurs) first used the term SE publicly. Since then, SE has been a growing field of research and practice (Gupta et al., 2020; Kannampuzha & Hockerts, 2019; Rey-Martí et al., 2016). Various researchers and academicians have defined SE in different ways, which have contributed significantly to the stated field's evolution. In this context, it is essential to establish the interrelatedness of SE with social enterprises. Peredo & McLean (2006) have viewed social enterprises as a connected flow of activities grounded on SE. Considering this similarity, in this paper, we use the terms social enterprise and social entrepreneurship interchangeably, denoted by SE.