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Introduction

In: Social Entrepreneurship

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  • Johanna Mair
  • Jeffrey Robinson
  • Kai Hockerts

Abstract

The concept of social entrepreneurship (SE) is, in practice, recognized as encompassing a wide range of activities: enterprising individuals devoted to making a difference; social purpose business ventures dedicated to adding for-profit motivations to the nonprofit sector; new types of philanthropists supporting venture capital-like ‘investment’ portfolios; and nonprofit organizations that are reinventing themselves by drawing on lessons learned from the business world. In the past decade ‘social entrepreneurship’ has made a popular name for itself on the global scene as a ‘new phenomenon’ that is reshaping the way we think about social value creation. Some of these practices are uniquely new however many have been around for a long time having finally reached critical mass under a widely endorsed label.

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  • Johanna Mair & Jeffrey Robinson & Kai Hockerts, 2006. "Introduction," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Johanna Mair & Jeffrey Robinson & Kai Hockerts (ed.), Social Entrepreneurship, chapter 1, pages 1-13, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-62565-5_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230625655_1
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