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Introduction to Part IV — Ecopreneurship: Unique Research Field or Just ‘More of the Same’?

In: Social Entrepreneurship

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  • Kai Hockerts

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The two papers in Part IV of this volume approach the topic of social entrepreneurship (SE) from the angle of environmental or sustainable entrepreneurship. Does it make sense to have such a focus? At first sight ecological entrepreneurship, often also referred to as ‘ecopreneurship’ (Isaak, 1997: 80), seems to be a mere subset of SE. Accordingly one could argue that, where SE generally aims at the identification and exploitation of opportunities for the creation of public goods, ecopreneurship simply narrows the focus to one particular type of public good — namely the protection of the environment. If this warrants a unique research domain one could also argue for similar efforts to be undertaken in other domains of SE — such as poverty relief, health or education.

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  • Kai Hockerts, 2006. "Introduction to Part IV — Ecopreneurship: Unique Research Field or Just ‘More of the Same’?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Johanna Mair & Jeffrey Robinson & Kai Hockerts (ed.), Social Entrepreneurship, chapter 13, pages 209-213, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-62565-5_13
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230625655_13
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