"Social enterprises aren't just sellers of goods," argues Lin Wan-i, a professor in the Department of Social Work at National Taiwan University (NTU). "The key point for them is using the selling process to benefit people. This makes them inseparable from their time and place." Lin explains that social enterprises take many different forms because every nation and every era has different needs and priorities.
「社會企業不只是販賣商品，更著重在過程中讓『人』受惠，因此帶有強烈的時代性和地域性，」台大社工系教授林萬億指出，因應每個時代、每個國家的重點和需求不同，社會企業的樣貌也會不同。