Sothy Khieng is a doctoral researcher in Organization Sciences at the VU University Amsterdam and a Visiting Research Fellow at Griffith University. His research is on “Local NGOs balancing between social value creation and profit-making: the dawn of social enterprises?” He has written a number of publications on nonprofit organizations, economics and health. He is also affiliated with CDRI – Cambodia’s leading independent development policy research institute and the Royal University of Phnom Penh. He received his MA in International Development Studies from Ohio University.
In their search to become more financially self-reliant development NGOs are experimenting with social entrepreneurship. Many are doing this to strengthen their financial situation, but social entrepreneurship can do much more and opens up new way…
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