Social Entrepreneurship and Broader Theories: Shedding New Light on the ‘Bigger Picture’
<title>Abstract</title> This article documents the results of a research workshop bringing together six perspectives on social entrepreneurship. The idea was to challenge existing concepts of the economy, the firm, and entrepreneurship in order to shed new light on social entrepreneurship and on our existing theoretical frameworks. The first two contributions use a macro-perspective and discuss the notion of adaptive societies and the tragedies of disharmonization, respectively. Taking a management perspective, the next two focus on the limits of conventional assumptions in management theory, particularly human capital theory and resource-based view. The final two contributions follow an entrepreneurship perspective highlighting the usefulness of mobilization theory and the business model lens to social entrepreneurship. Despite this diversity, all contributions share the fact that they challenge narrow definitions of the unit of analysis in social entrepreneurship; they illustrate the aspect of social embeddedness, and they argue for an open-but-disciplined diversity of theories in social entrepreneurship research.
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2013
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Authors: | Zeyen, Anica ; Beckmann, Markus ; Mueller, Susan ; Dees, J. Gregory ; Khanin, Dmitry ; Krueger, Norris ; Murphy, Patrick J. ; Santos, Filipe ; Scarlata, Mariarosa ; Walske, Jennifer ; Zacharakis, Andrew |
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Journal of Social Entrepreneurship. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 1942-0676. - Vol. 4.2013, 1, p. 88-107
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Taylor & Francis Journals |
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