Early challenges of nascent social entrepreneurs.
01 Sep 2013-Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (SAGE PublicationsSage CA: Los Angeles, CA)-Vol. 37, Iss: 5, pp 1045-1069
TL;DR: In this article, the early stages of social entrepreneurship are studied and the authors present a survey of social entrepreneurs' early stages in social entrepreneurship, focusing on the earliest stages of the social entrepreneurship process.
Abstract: Social entrepreneurs are celebrated as transformational leaders whose accomplishments create opportunities for those less fortunate. However, little is known about the early stages of social enterp...
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...The notion of prosocial motivation appears to be a particularly relevant yet under-researched antecedent to the entrepreneurial actions that alleviate others' suffering (important exceptions include Renko (2013) and Miller et al. (2012))....
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...…the time of business creation reflect the goals and motives of the key agents involved, and only after the organization continues to exist as a separate entity will it possess goals that are increasingly distinct from those of founding entrepreneurs (Katz & Gartner, 1988; Mintzberg & Waters, 1985)....
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