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Social entrepreneurship: Creating new business models to serve the poor

Christian Seelos, +1 more
- 01 May 2005 - 
- Vol. 48, Iss: 3, pp 241-246
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The term social entrepreneurship is used to refer to the rapidly growing number of organizations that have created models for efficiently catering to basic human needs that existing markets and institutions have failed to satisfy as discussed by the authors.
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This article is published in Business Horizons.The article was published on 2005-05-01. It has received 1032 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social entrepreneurship & Entrepreneurship.

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Social Entrepreneurship Reserach: a Source of Explanation, Prediction and Delight

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors put forward a view of social entrepreneurship as a process that catalyzes social change and/or addresses important social needs in a way that is not dominated by direct financial benefits for the entrepreneurs.
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Social Entrepreneurship Research: A Source of Explanation, Prediction, and Delight

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors put forward a view of social entrepreneurship as a process that catalyzes social change and addresses important social needs in a way that is not dominated by direct financial benefits for the entrepreneurs.
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Business Models for Sustainable Innovation: State of the Art and Steps Towards a Research Agenda

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the current literature on business models in the contexts of technological, organizational, and social sustainability innovations and propose examples of normative 'boundary conditions' that business models should meet in order to support sustainable innovations.
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Business Models for Sustainable Innovation: State-of-the-Art and Steps Towards a Research Agenda

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the current literature on business models in the contexts of technological, organizational and social innovation and propose examples of normative requirements that business models should meet in order to support sustainable innovations.
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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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Our common future

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Misery Loves Companies: Rethinking Social Initiatives by Business:

TL;DR: The authors argue that companies are increasingly asked to provide innovative solutions to deep-seated problems of human misery, even as economic theory instructs managers to focus on maximizing their shareholders' wealt.
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The Distinctive Domain of Entrepreneurship Research

TL;DR: This paper argued that the well-worn constructs of firm performance or success and failure of the individual entrepreneur do not provide the field the clarity of purpose and unique domain it desires, and that the context of small business is not what will bring singular clarity for the field.
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