User:Alesayiabdullah/sandbox

Welcome to my sandbox. Here I have my working drafts of the Wikipedia page that I hope to contribute to.

Initial assessment of page to work on
The Wikipedia article I chose to evaluate was the one on corporate social entrepreneurship (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_social_entrepreneurship).

There are quite a few problems with this Wikipedia page, as indicated by its “this article has multiple issues” flag at the top. The article’s issues begin with its introduction, which conflates entrepreneurship with the entrepreneurs themselves. There’s also some information that is potentially incorrect in the introduction. Though the citation buttons in the introduction of the article are functional, they point to textbooks, which suggests that the information is high quality but perhaps paraphrased or summarized incorrectly. Most of the other citations in the article point to other textbooks or similarly non-online accessible sources, some of which have titles that have nothing to do with the fact that they’re being cited for. With that being said, factual statements in the article are linked to citations, although the impartiality of the citations is very hard to assess.

The article maintains a consistent tone, and seems to be up to date. The article’s talk page points out that roughly a third of the sources cited come from the same scholar, who is also likely the person introducing those sources to the page itself, based off of usernames. The article is part of the collaborative WikiProject for Business, of low quality, and of low importance. Elsewhere in the talk page, there is a contentious debate regarding the tone, impartiality, and proper organization of the page itself—entries in the talk page debate are much longer and more detailed than the article itself. The author accused of introducing their own research responds in the talk page, and it seems that as of January 2016 the dispute is ongoing.

More in depth assessment of page to work on
The article that I chose to improve upon for class is Corporate social entrepreneurship. Judging by the talk page (Talk:Corporate social entrepreneurship) there are a number of issues with this article that need to be fixed, although I am not sure that I can contribute to the article's biggest issue which is a dispute over whether a single source is overused relative to the number of claims made using that source. I have stated my intent to join the effort to cleanup the article on the talk page, though it is not very active and it is unlikely that the original authors and editors will return to dispute my plan of action.

Instead of rehashing the sourcing issues that are present in the rest of the article, I would like to focus on expanding the Corporate social entrepreneurship heading, which contains little information, has technical jargon, doesn't mesh with the rest of the article, and isn't written in an impartial tone. The primary challenge in making edits to this section are that it has no real connections to either of the sections that surround it, so its location within the article may need to be changed entirely, which would constitute a major change. For now, I'll focus on creating a unified purpose in the section as it exists and remodeling it to fit better with the principles of Wikipedia.

Here is the entirety of the section's content:

"CSE which creates social value and benefits both the corporation and society has been described as a manifestation of enlightened self-interest. Alternatively, a deontological viewpoint frames acts of socially responsible behavior as driven by the individual's sense of duty to society, which may be viewed in terms of altruism."

Here's my version:

The relationship between corporate social responsibility and ethical business practices
Corporate social entrepreneurship exists alongside business ethics but is a distinct concept. Whether or not a business performs an ethical activity is a matter that is separate from a business' entrepreneurial attempts to improve the community. Though both corporate entrepreneurial initiatives and business ethics practices stem from the leadership of a corporate entity, policies may differ. Embezzlement of social entrepreneurial funds is not unheard of, nor are generally unethical business practices being covered up by robust social entrepreneurial programs.

Furthermore, many businesses conduct social entrepreneurship for the sake of public relations, causing many to be skeptical about the link between ethical business practice and the practice of social entrepreneurship. Depending on the industry and country, it may be necessary to appear to be socially responsible and to start new socially oriented programs as a large business in order to survive. Depending on the exact corporate program, what is socially beneficially and ethical at a small scale may not be such at a larger scale. Thus the problem of what is socially responsible in corporate entrepreneurship and what is an ethical business practice is far from solved.

Importantly, social corporate entrepreneurship activity has yet to be quantified on any objective scale, meaning that claims by businesses about their entrepreneurial activities are hard to assess.

There is some evidence which supports the idea that businesses which are ethical as reported by their employees are higher performing than those that do not. This evidence is joined by other evidence which suggests that employees tend to leave companies that they do not view as behaving ethically.