1. Analyze the meanings that social entrepreneurs attribute to their actions through a
typology of social entrepreneurs.
2. Explore the ways in which social enterprises may implicitly use human rights in
their work.
3. Demonstrate the potential for a rights-based approach to social enterprise in lieu
of a needs-based approach.
4. Provide insight into how an explicit rights-based approach to development might
strengthen social entrepreneurship both morally and functionally.
5. Flesh out the ethical and moral questions that a rights-based approach to social
enterprise generates.