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Gauging the success of social ventures initiated by individual social entrepreneurs
Moshe Sharir,Miri Lerner +1 more
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In this paper, the authors focused on identifying the factors affecting the success of social ventures operating in social settings in Israel and conducted an exploratory qualitative field study with 33 social ventures founded in the 1990s by individuals acting independently of their positions in other organizations.About:
This article is published in Journal of World Business.The article was published on 2006-02-01. It has received 641 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social venture & Social entrepreneurship.read more
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Social Entrepreneurship: Why We Don't Need a New Theory and How We Move Forward From Here
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the current state of the social entrepreneurship literature, asking what is unique about social entrepreneurship and what avenues create opportunities for the future of the field and conclude that while it is not a distinct type of entrepreneurship, researchers stand to benefit most from further research on social entrepreneurship as a context in which established types of entrepreneurs operate.
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Social Entrepreneurship: A Critique and Future Directions
TL;DR: The promise of social entrepreneurship as a domain of inquiry is examined and a number of research areas and research questions for future study are suggested.
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Advancing Research on Hybrid Organizing – Insights from the Study of Social Enterprises
Julie Battilana,Matthew Lee +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose that social enterprises that combine the organizational forms of both business and charity at their cores are an ideal type of hybrid organization, making social enterprise an attractive setting to study hybrid organizing.
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Research in social entrepreneurship: past contributions and future opportunities
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of this literature reveals that conceptual articles outnumber empirical studies, and empirical efforts often lack formal hypotheses and rigorous methods, and that social entrepreneurship research remains in an embryonic state.
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The multiple faces of social entrepreneurship: A review of definitional issues based on geographical and thematic criteria
Sophie Bacq,Frank Janssen +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine whether there is a transatlantic divide in the way social entrepreneurship is conceived and defined, and present the different geographical perspectives of social entrepreneurship in North American and European literatures.
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