Social Responsibility and Social Change: How to Engage in Public Policy Process Via Social Entrepreneurship

Abstract

This paper will address a few critical components of social change and social justice including social responsibility, social change, public policy initiatives, and the role of social entrepreneurs in mobilizing communities through building partnership and coalitions for achieving social change. The AEA model will be the main feature of the paper that includes three key elements of Awareness, Empowerment, and Action as its pillars supplemented by addressing the key role of public policy in providing the legal and Implementation base for social change and the pivotal role of social entrepreneurship in facilitating the whole change process. A brief reference to Levin’s Force Field and Change models as well as the role of technology and ethics as they relate to social change process will be addressed too.