| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 行政管理碩士學程 === 104 === Social enterprise is a new approach which combines social purpose, business operation and entrepreneurial spirits, aims to deliver public benefits and create an inclusive society. By the development of citizenship, civic engagement and environmental conscious, more and more people concern much about agriculture, land and food issue. Social enterprises sell not only products, but also their goals for public goods. Agricultural social enterprises have strong partnerships with farmers, as well as they need support from customers, they have to market their target groups. What mentioned above is corresponding to the principle of social marketing. Therefore, this study tries to figure out the development of agricultural social enterprise about what challenges they comforted and how to react by the viewpoint of social marketing.
The study took “News & Market” as the research case, chose in-depth interview as the methodology and feedback the opinions from customers to social enterprise. “News & Market” was established in 2011, focusing on agriculture, land and food issue, and the organization is divided as two parts: one is “news”, another is “market”. “News” reports any kind of articles related to agriculture, land and food; while “market” is a platform selling farmers’ product and assisting them progress their manufactures. “News & Market” is the first and only social enterprise positioning as independent media in Taiwan.
The study discover that agricultural social enterprise have to market and promote in following three advices: (1) Make customers know exactly regarding to the special and technical terms, giving the detailed description in advance, from preventing the misunderstanding. (2) Due to the social enterprise is expanding and proceeding, it should be arranged properly and make it systematized to keep up with the change. (3) Let not only customers but also the society more get involved in agriculture, land and food issue. Build the brand trust, share the thoughts and raise the awareness by keeping high-standard quality and making efforts pursuing the original goal.
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