Social Enterprise: Empowering Mission-Driven Entrepreneurs, By Marc J. Lane

Social Enterprise: Empowering Mission-Driven Entrepreneurs is a book written by Marc J. Lane. According to an article, Marc J. Lane is a nationally recognized business and tax attorney, a Master Registered Financial Planner, a Registered Financial Counselor and a Certified Investment Specialist. He is an expert on entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial finance, and an influential advocate of best corporate governance practices. He is the author of 34 books on corporate organization, management, taxation, investment, personal finance, and social enterprise and one of his book is this. This book is published last 2011 by American Bar Association. It primarily talks about the complete guides when it comes to social enterprise including what will
This book is an overall essential for the reason of being informative when it comes to giving details on how to start a Social Enterprise. It could have either a mission-driven motive or for-profit one. Another thing is that it gave some challenges that a social enterprise can experience while it is already operating like it was mentioned there about its capital and it was stated there that not all social enterprise are able to yield financial returns but at the same time, it seemed to be also a strength of a social enterprise because it attracts traditional and market-rate
In the book was presented the constituencies that require the measurement of social impacts made by the social enterprise. Basically, one of the things that a social enterprise should know is they should know where their company is going. If in case the social entrepreneur identified that the enterprise is doing well, he or she can pursue it and if it is not— the social entrepreneur must base his or her decision on the allocation of resources that are needed to pursue