Juan Carlos Schiapppa-Pietra

Juan Carlos Schiapppa-Pietra

Social Entrepreneur
Founder and Director
Servicios de Prensa para el Desarrollo
Distrito de Surco, Lima
PERU

Location PERU

Activity

  • Hello Professor Anna Triandafyllidou!
    Hello Nick Dines, Research Associate!
    Hello dear classmates!
    Nick,
    1. By the early XX Century the US was the first economy in the World and New York city, its economic capital, was the entry point from Europe.
    By 1920, more or less, Argentina was the third economy in the world and Buenos Aires, its political and...

  • Dear Professor Young,
    First, thanks for your contribution to this course designed by the University of Basel! Second, as it can happen in any class there can be disagreements and I do have some with your answers. Most likely the ultimate explanation for such disagreement could be national or regional contexts for the developing of each point of view.
    1. You...

  • Excuse but, maybe we are using different meanings for the same term. Maybe there is a different understanding in the North than in the South of what a "Social Enterprise" is. In Peru, for instances, we have very few SE and they are supposed to be profit seeking but, in a parallel way, seek fulfilling a social purpose. It seems this is not the model the...

  • Why does Griego (2005) classifies social cooperatives, mutual societies, associations and foundations as "social enterprises"? What business logic do they share with the "enterprise model"? They all belong to field of social innovations. Some of them were innovations at their time and others are contemporary social innovations. Don't you feel we are trapped by...

  • In philanthropy and non profits we need an entirely new vocabulary that fully grasps the logic and philosophy of the third sector. We need to stop borrowing categories from Business Administration. Profit oriented activities and nonprofit activities are realms of different worlds.
    1. There is difference between social enterprise and social entrepreneurship...

  • Thanks Artan for summarizing for us what we can learned from SapoCycle!
    Thanks also for the example you bring from SMARTFOOD AB from Sweeden! It was not clear if the recycling of short before-date food is done with profit purpose.
    I think the World Food Programe (WFP) is using a similar model in Peru. I think they work with what is called the "Food Bank".

  • Hello Salman! Thanks for the reply.
    1. In Peru after the collapse of NGOs we did not see a substantial increase of the NPO sector in the way it seems has taken place in Pakistan.
    2. Maybe asking for a new science to understand and explain the philanthropy and nonprofits phenomena might be too ambitious. However, I do agree with you that a new discipline, in...

  • Wow! This social entrepreneurship is an splendid example of innovation oriented towards community benefit. Congratulations to Cintia Jaime and the team she co chairs! The logistics of the entrepreneurship is so complex and that the same time so successful, that can only be explained by the national and business culture of Switzerland. So many actors...

  • Professor Meyer (Part 2)...
    But the core and dominant sphere of knowledge still remains in business. Therefore, the final points are: 1) Is Administrative theory prepared, considering its intimate link to a business paradigm, for understanding and leading the study of the third sector? 2) If not, shouldn't we start thinking in the coming years about...

  • Dear Professor Meyer (Part 1),
    I have just finished hearing the answers to the question posed to you. Our academic assignment is to comment them.
    I believe Administration emerged as a subsidiary discipline in the process of addressing complex management problems of industrial enterprises. The previous, was the paradigm of business organizations in the XIX...

  • Christian, I fully agree on your point about the relevance for civil society freedoms as prerequisite for allowing a local NPO sector. Maybe we missed debating until now in the course your point and we should not ignore it.

  • Sabine, Maybe the explanation for an appropriate assessment of the NPO sector in Switzerland (or for lacking such assessment) is the one you state in your comment. With so many International NPOs in this country maybe the data would be difficult to break-down with accuracy.

  • Sorry Charlotte, I had trouble to find what country you are from. May I know it? I would like to know about "the problems of nonprofits organizations". What kind of problems do they face?

  • Elise, It sounds pretty impressive the funding resources available in the US for disaster and humanitarian aid. I have never heard before about the charitable investment account for donors (Fidelity Charitable). Mexico a country hit by earthquakes developed, with the support of the World Bank, a highly innovative financial tool to protect the economy of the...

  • Very interesting your information Ricarda, on the case of Germany, reported from CNP. I agree with you. Even though Germany is one of the most stable democracies in Europe, State or Federal funds, which are welcome and commendable, in this case, for the sustainability of the Third Sector, might lead to a dependency. The ratio needs to shift more towards...

  • Hello Salman! I am from Peru. In our case we had a vibrant NGOs sector during the 80s, 90s and the first decade of the XXI century. The NGOs were focused on development programs of diverse types. However, they carried a political stigma that let to an institutional segregation campaign, to a point that brought the sector to its collapse. I am surprised to hear...

  • The idea of “volunteer days” to attract volunteers in a city is pretty nice one! It can also be adapted to the recruiting needs of community based social entrepreneurship and community based organizations in desperate need of such volunteers.

  • The idea of including the primary funding structure in a Trustee Board, as a risk reduction strategy, is a very good one! However, these funding structures sometimes have institutional or legal limitations that prevent them from further involvement with the nonprofit, besides providing for its financial needs.

  • If funding suppose implicitly and in most cases a dependency relationship between the institution that provides the funds and the nonprofit that receive the funds; would it not be best to regulate this sort of relationship established among both actors in some sort of contract? The institution providing the funds stipulates what are its conditions and...

  • Steffen, I have read several of your well structured comments and would like to add some points of views. However, I am three weeks behind the rest of the class in my readings and need to keep up with the course. Will comment soon! Best regards from Peru!

  • In Peru, we don´t have any kind of certification or seal for NGOs or nonprofits. This idea is new to me and it's quite promising. Thanks for raising the point in this course! It would be better to work on developing a regional or global seal for the Third Sector than each country developing its own one. On this subject some criteria are basic: Third Sector...

  • Dear Professor von Schnurbein & academic staff,
    Dear colleagues,

    I am sure you all welcome diversity of opinions and ideas. With this spirit I would like to bring some points to the discussion.

    Text: 1) Analyze the existing rules, coercive isomorphism...

    Comment: Social entrepreneurship are in many cases an equivalence of social innovation, which...

  • I haven’t read Paul DiMaggio and Walter Powell but it seems they are using the broad category of “organizations” which includes so many types of institutions. Most institutions considered under "organizations" are not from the nonprofit sector and therefore these authors can´t grass properly the specifics of this sector.
    First, no one in the nonprofit...

  • “When you listen to marketing specialists, they will tell you that differentiation is key to success. But have you ever wondered why there is often more of the same and only little diversification? Paul DiMaggio and Walter Powell found a very strong theoretical explanation for the fact that organizations tend to become more similar. They called it the theory...

  • Dear Professor von Schnurbein,
    I whatch for a second time your video on "Path Dependency Theory" and found a clear vision about the evolution of nonprofits entepreneurship you divide in 3 phases:
    A) Foundation;
    B) Growth;
    C) Maturity.
    Does your model considers strategic planning at the foundation phase as essential?
    By sheer accident I had to read some...

  • Hello! Good evening to all!
    I would like to share with you some stats taken, when browsing the Wikipedia from the following original quote: http://nonprofitaction.org:

    "1. There are an estimated 10 million (non-governmental organizations) NGOs worldwide.
    Source: The Global Journal"

    There must be some sort of mistake in this information but...

  • "Nonprofits with higher revenues have a reduced volatility in annual revenues and, thus, a better financial stability." This type of nonprofits are mostly big institutions, in most cases international institutions, with fundraising capabilities that are well above the average. From a financial point of view there is little to worry about them. The red alert...

  • From the point of view of North-South cooperation in the field of social entrepreneurship one simple idea and not so difficult to implement is the one that could provide distance (online) advisory services for social entrepreneurs in the South: financial, management, mission design, etc. The chances of receiving locally this type of volunteer services is limited.

  • Good afternoon! I would like to bring here and to the discussion the problem of "financial vulnerability" of NGOs in Peru, because might be similar in other countries in the South. NGOs in Peru were never thought as social entrepreneurships, in the sense of becoming financially autonomous in the long term. In Peru the vast network of NGOs were instead highly...

  • Hello! "Financial vulnerability" is the Achilles heel of social entrepreneurship every were, but hits with more cruelty entrepreneurship of this sort in the South. During the years I have seen in Peru quite a number of social entrepreneurs fail in their commendable intention of social innovation due to "financial vulnerability". I have seen how their hopes and...

  • "Path Dependency theory defines the most fearsome phenomenon in human history, namely Resistance to Change." Excellent Mazela! Your comment has a variety of implications away from the topic of the course, but highly relevant. There seems to be a deeply rooted social behavior in human beings which is based in repeating as frequent as possible previous social...

  • Hello Allan! I liked your post. A lot of companies face similar internal resistance to change, in times were change is the only stable component of business. To avoid interference of resistance some companies have chosen the path of empowering change processes and even new innovations on independent organizational units, away from the daily "politics" of...

  • Good morning! While plenty of financial, human, state and even international resources are allocated world-wide for business entrepreneurship, which at the end is for individual economic benefit, in the South we lack the most basic entrepreneurial ecosystem to nurture social innovation, which at the end is for community development benefit. So, social...

  • Hello! Path Dependency theory states that "decisions made in the past defines the tasks, management and structure of the organization." While this approach implies a lack of flexibility from social entrepreneurs it might ignore, at the same time, the severe resource constraints under which most them work in the South.

  • Sorry! i am late arrival to the course!
    1. Are you a member of any associations? How many?
    Yes! In 2 associations.
    2. In which areas (culture, education, social service etc.) are you engaged in?
    Education; Health Provision and Human Rights,
    3. Have you ever served on the board of a nonprofit?
    Yes.
    4. How long have you worked (or are you still working)...

  • Hello Professor Georg von Schnurbein! Hello fellow colleagues! I found today this website and signed for his course and for an extra one. I am happy to meet all of you! I am a social entrepreneur from Lima, Peru and have been working in highly adverse conditions during the last 7 years trying to develop radio as an educational tool, far away from where radio...