Social Entrepreneurship and Complex Thinking: A Bibliometric Study

Social Entrepreneurship: A Case Study From Brazil

Philanthropic and humanitarian organizations are increasingly turning to business models to achieve their social objectives. ‘‘Market-based approaches,’’ says the Acumen Fund, ‘‘have the potential to grow after charitable dollars run out, and they must be a part of the solution to the big problem of poverty.’’ Virginiabased Ashoka seeks to achieve social objectives by investing in individual en...

Defining the ‘Social’ in ‘Social Entrepreneurship’: Altruism and Entrepreneurship

What is social entrepreneurship? In, particular, what’s so social about it? Understanding what social entrepreneurship is enables researchers to study the phenomenon and policy-makers to design measures to encourage it. However, such an understanding is lacking partly because there is no universally accepted definition of entrepreneurship as yet. In this paper, we suggest a definition of social...

Social Networks and Entrepreneurship

the influence of social and cultural capital on efl students critical thinking skills

the major aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between social and cultural capital and efl students’ critical thinking skills. this study takes this relationship in to account to see if people with different sociocultural status are different regarding their critical thinking skills. to this end, 160 university students majoring in english language and literature, english trans...

Toward a Complexity Context for Social Entrepreneurship: A Complex Systems Leadership Perspective on Social Enterprise

The growing field of complexity leadership argues that leadership emerges from within interactions. The specific nature of the interaction dynamics that enable organizing to emerge in social entrepreneurial enterprises provides a context for leadership in these projects. Three dimensions of this complexity context are identified and described. A gene rative context for leadership is present whe...