Legitimacy and Sustainability of Social Enterprise: Governance and Accountability

This paper discusses the principles of legitimacy and sustainability of these social enterprises as one of the tools for non-profit organisations to fulfill their mission to healthy communities. The capability of social enterprises operations to create both social and economic values is considered “double bottom-line” mainstream organisations that creates economic values and social values, while other organisations are mainly “single bottom-line” mainstream organisations. This paper discusses the legitimacy and sustainability of social enterprises in generating income through its dual purpose of having “business” sources of revenues to be used for charity purposes.