The Social Entrepreneur as an Antifragile Agent in the Era of New Normal
Keywords:
Antifragility, Agency Theory, Business Model, Digital Technology, New Normal, Performance-Evaluative Dimension Iterative Dimension, Projective Dimension, Social Entrepreneurship, Theory of Emergenetics.Abstract
The social entrepreneur of Dyck and Neubert is seen from Geil Browning’s Theory of Emergenetics that says we are a product of nature (DNA) and nurture (external influence of family, school, society, government, business and religious beliefs). In more vivid details, the Agency Theory of Priestly, Biesta and Robinson enumerates three key dimensions of being an agent who effectively interacts with his/her environment. These three dimensions are 1. Performance-Evaluative, 2. Iterative and 3. Projective. This paper presents the concept of Antifragility of Nassim Taleb as framework for the peak performance of an Agent. The social entrepreneur is presented from Dyck and Neubert’s multistream perspective, primarily describing him as concerned with the wellbeing of the customers. Carl Balita’s 12 Days of Entrepreneurs provides a capsulized summary on being an entrepreneur and Larry Gamboa’s Business Model Canvas is a valuable basic guide for entrepreneurial start-up. The World Economic Forum gives a macro vision for social entrepreneurs to pursue 1. creativity and innovation, 2. global and local citizenship, 3. digital technology and 4. interpersonal and intrapersonal relationship as key activities in a post-COVID 19 New Normal environment. The Era of the New Normal is happening at the tail end of the Great Period of Change which started in 1987 and ends in 2023. An Antifragile Social Entrepreneur in the Era of New Normal is a person who takes an active role (Agent) to pursue her/his vision and mission in serving her/his internal and external stakeholders, and she/he does not merely withstand shocks of business challenges, but actually gains improvement because of them when facing these challenges (Antifragile).
References
Ashridge Hult, (2016). The Age of Upheaval. Global Business. Hult International Business School. Hult.edu.
Abele, A.E. & Bogdan Wojciszke. (2007). Agency and Communion From the Perspective of Self Versus Others
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Copyright by the American Psychological Association 93(5),
pp. 751–763
Balita, C. (2016). Entrepreneur in 12 days. Manila: Limariza Printing Press.
Bennett, N. & Lemoine, G.J. (January–February, 2014). What VUCA Really Means for You. Harvard
Business Review.
Braden, G. (2010). Fractal Time: The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age. California: Hay House, Inc.
Beck, M. (2012). Finding your way in a wild new world. New York: Free Press.
Bloch, M. (1953). The historian's craft. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Boucher, J.J. & Lance, K.C. (1992). The Roles of Libraries in Education [microform]. Washington, D.C.: Distributed
by ERIC Clearinghouse. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED354919.
Browning, g. (2005). Emergenetics (R): Tap Into the New Science of Success Paperback. USA: HarperCollins
Publishers Inc.
https://www.xavier.edu/jesuitresource/online-resources/quote-archive1/spiritual-awareness-quote
Carroll, A. (1991) The Pyramid of Corporate Social Responsibility Toward the Moral Management of Organizational
Stakeholders. Business Horizons, 34, 39-48.
Creswell, John W. 2014. Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches. Thousand
Oaks, California: SAGE Publications.
Carucci, R.A. & Pasimore, W.A. (2002). Relationship that enable enterprise change. San Francisco, CA:
Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer.
Dyck, B. & Neubert, M.J. (2012). Management. Singapore: Cengage Learning.
Elkington. J. ( 25, 2018). 25 Years Ago I Coined the Phrase “Triple Bottom Line.” Here’s Why It’s Time to Rethink
It. Harvard Business Review.
Emirbayer, M., & Mische, A. (1998). What is agency? American Journal of Sociology, 103(4), 962–1023.
https://doi.org/10.1086/231294
Erikson, E. H. (1994). Identity and the life cycle. NY: WW Norton.
Fowler, J. W. (1981). Stages of faith: The psychology of human development and the quest for meaning. San Francisco:
Harper & Row
Fry, B.F. & Raadschelders, J.C.N. (2014). Mastering public administration. Los Angeles: SAGE.
FS Blog (n.d.). 10 Principles to Live an Antifragile Life. https://fs.blog/an-antifragile-way-of-
life/#:~:text=What%20is%20Antifragility,adventure%2C%20risk%2C%20and%20uncertainty.
Gamboa, L. (2016). The Millennials’ Guide to Kick-starting a Business. Quezon City: Shepherd’s Voice
Publishing, Inc.
Gardner. H. (1999). Intelligence reformed, multiple intelligence for the 21st century. New York, USA:
Basic Books.
Goleman, D. (1995). Emotional intelligence New York: Bantam Books.
_________ . (2007). Social intelligence. New York: Bantam Dell.
_________ . (2009). Ecological intelligence. London: Penguin Books.
Gonzalez, F.S.C., Luz, J. M., & Tirol, M.H. (1984). De La Salle mission statement:
Retrospect and prospect. Quezon City: Vera Reyes, Inc., 46, 19-24, 14-16, 4
Hall, H.P. (1994). Values shift : a guide to personal & organizational transformation. Rockport, MA : Twin Lights
Publishers.
Harari, Y.N. (2016). Homo deus: A brief history of tomorrow. London: Vintage.
Harari, Y.N. (2018). 21 lessons for the 21st century. London: Jonathan Cape.
Hayes, A. (August 29, 2022). What Is Comparative Advantage?
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/comparativeadvantage.asp#:~:text=Comparative%20advantage%20is%20an%20economy's,individuals%20can%20benefit%20from%20trade. Retrieved January 11, 2023.
Hudtohan, E. T. (2005). 50 years of De La Salle catechetical program: Retrospect and prospect. Retrieved
from https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_doctoral/104
Hudtohan, E.T. (March 2022). 21st Century Perspectives on the Role of Management, Education and Technology in
Human Welfare. International Journal of Management and Education in Human Development, 2(1).
Retrieved from https://ijmehd.com/index.php/ijmehd/article/view/3
Hudtohan, E.T. (2015). Antifragility as a Theoretical Lens in Reviewing Corporate Social Responsibility. Journal of
Business, Education and Law (BEL). 26,1.
Hudtohan, E.T. (2010). The Context of Cultural Intelligence: A Book Review of David Livermore’s Leading with
Cultural Intelligence: The New Secret to Success. DLSU Business & Economics Review, 20, 1.
Hall, B.F., Kalven, J., Rosen, L.S. & Taylor, B. (c.1991). Values development diagnostic sourcebook. Fond du Lac,
WI: International Values Institute of Marian College.
Jinkins, H. (2009). Confronting the challenges of participatory culture: Media education for the 21st century. MIT
Press.
Jocano, F. L.. (1997). Working with Filipino: A cross-cultural encounter. Metro Manila: Punlad Research House
Karakas, F. (2009). New paradigms in organization development: Positivity, spirituality, and complexity.
Organization Development Journal, 27(1).
Laszlo, E. (2006). Chaos point: The world at the Crossroads. London: Piatkus Books Ltd.
Lennick, D. & Kiel, F. (2008). Moral intelligence: Enhancing business performance and leadership
success. New Jersey: Pearson Educational Inc.
Livermore, D. (2010). Leading with cultural intelligence. New York: American Management Association.
Livermore, D. (2009). Cultural intelligence: Improving your CQ to engage our multicultural world. Michigan: Baker
Academic.
Marshall, C. & Rossman, G.B. (2011). Designing qualitative research. London: Sage Publications.
Max Weber, M. (1947). The theory of Social and economic organization. New York: Free Press.
Caitlin Moran. (n.d.). Library. (www.quotemaster.org/importance+of+library#&gid=1&pid=1).
Moustakas, C. & Douglass, B. (1985). Heuristic inquiry: The internal search to know. Journal of
Humanistic Psychology, 25(3).
Newman, B.M & Philip R. Newman. (2020). Psychosocial theories in Theories of Adolescent Development.
Amsterdam: Elsevier Science,
O’Murchu, D. (2004). Quantum Theology: Spiritual implications of new physics. NY: The Crossroad Publishing Co.
Page, C. R. (2008). 2012 and the galactic center. Vermont: Bear & Company.
Pande, M. & Vain, K. (2009). Civil Society: Networked Citizens. Ten-Year Forecast Perspective, Institute of
the Future. www.iftf.org..
Porter, M. E. (1998). The Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance. NY: Free Press,
(Republished with a new introduction, 1998).
Powell, D.RJ. (2003). Spirit intelligence: 175 ways of inspiriting your life and business. NSW: Richmond
Ventures Pty Limited.
Priestley, M., Biesta, G.J.J. & Robinson, S. (2015). Teacher agency: what is it and why does it
matter? In R. Kneyber & J. Evers (eds.), Flip the System: Changing Education from the Bottom Up. London: Routledge.
Prosperity Candle. (n.d.). What Does Artisan Made Means and Why Is It Important?
https://www.prosperitycandle.com/blogs/news/what-does-artisan-made-mean-and-why-is-it-important. Retrieved January 11, 2023.
Ricardo, D.(1821). On The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. London: John Murray,
Albemarle-Street,
Roid, G. H., & Pomplun, M. (2012). The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition. In D. P.
Flanagan & P. L. Harrison (Eds.), Contemporary intellectual assessment: Theories, tests, and issues (pp. 249–268). The Guilford Press.
RUN System. (30 Dec 2020). https://runsystem.id/en/blog/3-focuses-on-competitive-advantage-as-the-
heart-of-strategy/. Retrieved January 11, 2023.
School of Life Educational Society. (n.d.). Volunteering/Karma Yoga.
https://www.schooloflife.org/volunteering. Retrieved January 11, 2023 upon recommendation of Atty. Jaja Parmissano.
Seale, A. (2003). Soul mission life vision. San Francisco, CA: Red Wheel Weiser, LLC.
Sela-Smith, S. (July 2002). Heuristic Research: A Review and Critique of Moustakas’s Method
Journal of Humanistic Psychology 42(3):53-88.
Smart, R. (2021). The Golden Age is Coming.
Smith, J. (2015). Business research methodology. New York: Arcler Press LLC.
Stebbins, R.A. (2011). What Is Exploration? In: Exploratory Research in the Social Sciences
London: SAGE Publications, Inc. City: Thousand Oaks
Stoltz, P. G. (2000). Adversity quotient @ work. New York: William Morrow.
Seale, A. (2003). Soul mission life vision: Recognize your true gifts and make your mark in the world. CA: Red
Wheel/Weiser, LLC
Taleb, N.N. (2012). Antifragile: Things that gain from disorder. New York: Random
House.
Taleb, N. N. (2013). Philosophy: ‘Antifragility’ as a mathematical idea. Nature, 494(7438), 430-430.
Taleb, N. &R. Douady. (2012). Mathematical definition, mapping, and detection of (anti) fragility.
Quantitative Finance. http://ssrn.com/abstract=2124595.
Tamura, (2007). You are the answer: Discovering and fulfilling your soul’s purpose. Woodbury, Mn:
Llewellyn Publications.
Tony Knight @ freeAgent42, (2018). https://medium.com/@tonyknight_92437/the-field-is-the-sole-governing-
agency-of-the-particle-einstein-1f770090a926
Tolle, E. (1997). The Power of now: A guide to spiritual enlightenment. New York: New World Library.
Values Technology. (n.d.). Values%20Technology.pdf
Walsch, D. (July 22, 2021). Facebook post, M.P. Hudtohan. youtube.com The Apocalypse of Belief - Healing Our
Culture http://www.brucelipton.comHumans evolved from within a “Garden,”.
Watson, J. S. (1979). Perception of contingency as a determinant of social responsiveness. In E. B. Thomann,
(Ed.), Origins of the infant's social responsiveness, 1, pp.33–64.
Wheatley, M. J. (2006). Leadership and the new science : Discovering order in a chaotic world. San Francisco,
CA: Berrett-Koehler
Wilber, (2000). A brief history of everything (2nd rev. ed.). Boston [New York]: Shambhala ; Distributed in the United
States by Random House.
World Economic Forum (September 2013). Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Around the Globe and Company Growth
Dynamics. Industry Agenda.
World Economic Forum (June 2021). Building Back Broader: Policy Pathways for an Economic Transformation. Center for the New Economic Society.
World Economic Forum (2023). The Global Risks Report 2023, 18th Edition, Insight Report. In partnership with Marsh McLennan and Zurich Insurance Group. https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Global_Risks_Report_2023.pdf
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2024 International Association of Management and Human Resource Development
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
