Is Social Enterprise Sustainable? -- Conclusion

The emergence of social enterprise reflects a systemic breakdown in our understanding of an organizational medium that has become ubiquitous in contemporary life. We have become so adept at creating new identities that we no longer know ourselves, and social enterprise has appeared to remind us of the way things already are.  Corporate form in its complexity is more than a mirror of emergence in nature; it is, to quote McLuhan, “an extension of the self.”  We are all hybrids, every one of us, from the moment of our birth. When we remember this, and live accordingly, the work of this movement will be done.

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