Work on social entrepreneurship constitutes a field of study that intersects a number of domains, including entrepreneurial studies, social innovation, and nonprofit management. Scholars are beginning to contribute to the development of this new discipline through efforts that attempt to trace the emergence of social entrepreneurship as well as by comparing it to other organizational activities...

Social entrepreneurship is trendy! It offers all the challenges and rewards of traditional entrepreneurship, combined with the vision of changing society, if not the world. One social entrepreneur has just received the “Alternative Nobel Prize”; in 2004 Jeff Skoll, the founder of e-Bay, donated 4.4 million pounds to establish a research center on social entrepreneurship; and many social entrepr...

Sustainability-oriented organizations have typically adopted governance approaches that undertake community participation and collaboration through multistakeholder arrangements. Documented challenges of this model are associated with collaboration and institutional capacity, and include reactive accountability structures, inability to reach consensus, funding limitations, and lack of innovatio...

Prior Work: Two broad perspectives reconceptualise entrepreneurship as social change, namely the movements spearheaded by Hjorth and Steyaert (2003, 2004, 2006, 2009), and the feminist perspectives of Calás et al., (2009). In the former case, empirical examples have been cited to illustrate the activity of ‘public entrepreneurship’ and the ways in which individual citizens have created new civi...

I propose a theory aimed at advancing scholarly research in social entrepreneurship. By highlighting the key trade-off between value creation and value appropriation and explaining when situations of simultaneous market and government failure may arise, I suggest that social entrepreneurship is the pursuit of sustainable solutions to problems of neglected positive externalities. I further discu...

We integrate insights from the social embeddedness perspective with research on immigrant entrepreneurship to theorize on how family resources influence exit from entrepreneurship among previously unemployed immigrant entrepreneurs. Results from a cohort study of immigrant entrepreneurs in Sweden reveal that family resources are important for immigrants to integrate economically into a country....

today, development of social entrepreneurship has been regarded as a social and altruistic mission and as a solution to some social problems and damages. entrepreneurship has exerted positive and direct impact on the activities of many different countries. on one hand, it leads to economic development and creation of vocational opportunities; and on the other hand, it causes to improve social a...

the concept of entrepreneurship has derived much attention to itself from scientific boards and public and private organizations in the recent decades. a brief review on the literature of entrepreneurship reveals that due to the economic approaches taken, entrepreneurship is setting forth to find out new ways to maximize the benefit and income. at the other hand, social organizations, too, must...