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Introduction to Part II — Exploring the Intentions and Opportunities Behind Social Entrepreneurship

In: Social Entrepreneurship

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  • Johanna Mair

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The process by which scholars are struggling to establish social entrepreneurship (SE) as a legitimate field of study closely resembles the development of the field of business entrepreneurship. Similar to business entrepreneurship, which even today lacks a unifying paradigm (Shane and Venkataraman, 2000), SE has taken on a variety of meanings (Dees, 1998), and we still lack answers to the following questions: How do we define SE? Why and how should we study it? What differentiates SE from other ‘social’ initiatives? And finally, what is the relation between SE and traditional business entrepreneurship?

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  • Johanna Mair, 2006. "Introduction to Part II — Exploring the Intentions and Opportunities Behind Social Entrepreneurship," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Johanna Mair & Jeffrey Robinson & Kai Hockerts (ed.), Social Entrepreneurship, chapter 6, pages 89-94, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-62565-5_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230625655_6
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    1. Marzena Starnawska, 2016. "Social Entrepreneurship Research – Challenges, Explanations and Suggestions for the Field Development (Przedsiebiorczosc spoleczna – wyzwania, przyczyny i sugestie dla obszaru badawczego)," Problemy Zarzadzania, University of Warsaw, Faculty of Management, vol. 14(61), pages 13-31.
    2. Rocío Aliaga-Isla & Benjamin Huybrechts, 2018. "From “Push Out” to “Pull In” Together : An Analysis of Social Entrepreneurship Definitions in the Academic Field," Post-Print hal-02312230, HAL.
    3. Félix González, Mónica & Husted, Bryan W. & Aigner, Dennis J., 2017. "Opportunity discovery and creation in social entrepreneurship: An exploratory study in Mexico," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 81(C), pages 212-220.
    4. Patricia Doyle Corner & Marcus Ho, 2010. "How Opportunities Develop in Social Entrepreneurship," Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, , vol. 34(4), pages 635-659, July.
    5. Hristina Blagoycheva, 2018. "Social Entrepreneurship and Social Business – the One Side of Two Coins," Regional Economy and Sustainable Development, Conference Proceedings 2017, Research Institute, University of Economics - Varna, issue 2, pages 507-518, March.

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