Social Entrepreneurship: An Overview
18 Jan 2019-pp 3-9
TL;DR: In this paper, a short history of social entrepreneurship in order to frame up a discussion of youth-centered social entrepreneurship is provided. But the authors focus on the early movements of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship.
Abstract: This chapter provides a short history of social entrepreneurship in order to frame up a discussion of youth-centered social entrepreneurship. The chapter explores the basic concepts and foundational elements of social entrepreneurship as a whole before differentiating it with youth social entrepreneurship. It includes a description of early movements of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise. The reader who is new to the field of social entrepreneurship will find this chapter to be an appropriate introduction, while readers who are more experienced in this area will find it to be a review that shapes the explorations of youth social entrepreneurship to come.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw on an established sustainable entrepreneurship capability framework and provide direct evidence from entrepreneurship educators about the effectiveness of service learning, and qualitative interviews with those educators reveal a framework composed of personal and institutional factors that they have to navigate when provide service learning.
Abstract: Due to its growing practical relevance, sustainability entrepreneurship receives a high degree of academic attention. However, literature on how to educate sustainability entrepreneurs remains scarce. A promising didactical approach in this context is service learning. We ask if service learning is an effective way to educate sustainability entrepreneurs, and which framework conditions impact those educators. First, we draw on an established sustainable entrepreneurship capability framework and provide direct evidence from entrepreneurship educators about the effectiveness of service learning. Second, based on grounded theory, qualitative interviews with those educators reveal a framework composed of personal and institutional factors that they have to navigate when provide service learning. Our findings contribute to the interface of service learning and sustainability entrepreneurship by highlighting its effectiveness and the framework conditions for educators.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors question the purely business-oriented, technology-centred use of the term "innovation" and argue that research on social innovation has gained momentum in recent years.
Abstract: Questioning the purely business-orientated, technology-centred use of the term ‘innovation’, research on social innovation has gained momentum in recent years. While significant progress has been m...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the role of empathy, moral judgement and social entrepreneurial education in predicting social entrepreneurial intention was identified and the mediating effect of prosocial motivation in this relationship was tested.
Abstract: The aim of this research study to identify the role of empathy,moral judgement and social entrepreneurial education in predicting social entrepreneurial intention. And also test the mediating effect of prosocial motivation in this relationship. Through the survey, primary sample data of 755 nascent social entrepreneurs were used to test the hypotheses. The hypothesised moderated mediation condition was supported as results suggest that prosocial motivation mediated the relationship between antecedents and social entrepreneurial intentions. Besides this social entrepreneurial education showed a strong direct relationship with social entrepreneurial intentions. These findings strengthen the argument which states that there is a great need from policy, educators and universities to start courses that can imbibe the feeling of empathy. And also support system to motivates students to go
for social entrepreneurship as a career choice.
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...Boschee (1995) mentioned that social entrepreneurs are one who can balance ‘moral imperatives and the profit motive’ (Boschee 1995). Whereas Elkington and Hartigan (2008), defines social entrepreneurs as an unreasonable individual who always seeks for social justice....
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...Boschee (1995) mentioned that social entrepreneurs are one who can balance ‘moral imperatives and the profit motive’ (Boschee 1995)....
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TL;DR: In this article, a more fine-grained exploration of the identity work of social entrepreneurs from a psychoanalytic perspective is presented. But they focus on interviews with 61 social entrepreneurs.
Abstract: Building on an analysis of interviews with 61 social entrepreneurs, the study offers a more fine-grained exploration of the identity work of social entrepreneurs from a psychoanalytic, particularly...
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...…are depicted as innovative and smart and even more driven to succeed than some for-profit entrepreneurs as they face potentially difficult and risky circumstances creating not only market opportunities but also social value (Boschee and McClurg, 2003; Dees and Economy, 2001; Martin, 2004)....
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...Social entrepreneurs are depicted as innovative and smart and even more driven to succeed than some for-profit entrepreneurs as they face potentially difficult and risky circumstances creating not only market opportunities but also social value (Boschee and McClurg, 2003; Dees and Economy, 2001; Martin, 2004)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors pose the following research questions: How does a social open-source social network enable social innovation as the source of innovative ideas and the repository of new business models?
Abstract: As people pay attentions to social innovation as the source of innovative ideas and the repository of new business models, this study poses the following research questions: How does a social open ...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors question the purely business-oriented, technology-centred use of the term "innovation" and argue that research on social innovation has gained momentum in recent years.
Abstract: Questioning the purely business-orientated, technology-centred use of the term ‘innovation’, research on social innovation has gained momentum in recent years. While significant progress has been m...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors pose the following research questions: How does a social open-source social network enable social innovation as the source of innovative ideas and the repository of new business models?
Abstract: As people pay attentions to social innovation as the source of innovative ideas and the repository of new business models, this study poses the following research questions: How does a social open ...
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TL;DR: Social Entrepreneurship Organizations (SEOs) aim to solve social, environmental or societal problems even as they strive to work profitably as mentioned in this paper. But the achievement of the social mission also requires econ...
Abstract: Social Entrepreneurship Organizations (SEOs) aim to solve social, environmental or societal problems even as they strive to work profitably. The achievement of the social mission also requires econ...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the applicability of a variant of the model proposed by Hockerts (2017) for assessing the social entrepreneurial intention (SEI) of male and female students was tested.
Abstract: The study aims to test the applicability of a variant of the model proposed by Hockerts (2017) for assessing the social entrepreneurial intention (SEI) of male and female students. It extends the model by incorporating the university's environment and support system (ESS) as an additional more distal construct. The university's ESS, coupled with the experience with social, cultural and environmental issues can affect SEI by influencing the more proximal precursors of empathy towards others, perceived self-efficacy, perceived community support and social, cultural and environmental responsibility.,A structured non-disguised questionnaire was administered to students at a Canadian university. A sample of 485 usable responses was analysed by means of second-order structural equation modelling.,The results provide confirmation that the proposed model is a multi-group invariant and appropriate for analysing the SEI of male and female students. They also show that the university's ESS helps predict SEI indirectly through the complete mediation of the more proximal antecedents.,The questionnaire is limited to universities with social innovation and entrepreneurship initiatives.,Outcomes of the study can help universities assess the efficacy of their social innovation and entrepreneurship initiatives for instilling a social entrepreneurial mind-set in students. Consequently, universities will be better equipped to raise the perceptions of venture feasibility and desirability, thus increasing students' perceptions of opportunity.,The study advances the social entrepreneurial knowledge of the university's effect on the precursors of SEI.
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