| dc.description.abstract | During past few years, social enterprise becomes an interesting research topic and attracts substantial contributions from company administrators, who reveal much happiness from the devotion even more than that from business revenues. Although it is still an open issue about the definition of so-called social enterprise and social entrepreneurship, there have been many devotions of research and discussion upon social enterprise and social entrepreneurship. Meanwhile, many researchers pay a lot of attentions on the topic of Hakka culture and show different viewpoints of interpretations of Hakka spirit.
Dr. Tin Ka Ping, who is the founder of Tin Ka Ping Foundation, is known as a charitable entrepreneur and Tin Ka Ping Foundation has been established since 1982. The contributions by Dr. Tin and Tin Ka Ping Foundation evidently exhibit and explain the social entrepreneurship of Hakka enterprise. In this research, we take Dr. Tin and Tin Ka Ping Foundation as an instance to explore the Hakka spirit, entrepreneurship and social care and to investigate the results of merging of the three components.
From our investigation, it is observed that the family and childhood play significant roles in the development of Dr. Tin’s entrepreneurship and social care。Specifically, Hakka culture certainly affects Dr. Tin’s personality and ＂diligence, frugality, simplicity and sincerity＂ become his principle of living and working. Furthermore, using “The social entrepreneurship spectrum” to analyze the three phases of Tin Ka Ping Foundation, we found that the process of implementation of social value by Tin Ka Ping Foundation can prove the changing boundary mentioned in many theories. Afterwards, we discovered the relationship of social capital and entrepreneurship by comparing the characteristics. Accordingly, we can draw a conclusion that the process of implementation of social value is truly also the process of extension of their social capital. | en_US |