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Is It a Bird? The Social Entrepreneurial Superhero: Fact or Fiction?

In: Entrepreneurial Behaviour

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  • Simon Adderley

    (Oxford Brookes University)

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This chapter presents a reflection upon the motivations behind the behaviours of social entrepreneurs. It argues that social entrepreneurship has, like entrepreneurship more generally, been adopted as a universally positive phrase. That for politicians and practitioners the concept of being a ‘social entrepreneur’ is inherently a ‘good thing’. However, the chapter maintains that in fact such a label is socially constructed. Indeed, when viewed through a geographical or gender perspective, the term rapidly loses cohesion. Instead, therefore, the chapter maintains that the motivations of individual actors are themselves socially constructed and understood.

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  • Simon Adderley, 2019. "Is It a Bird? The Social Entrepreneurial Superhero: Fact or Fiction?," Springer Books, in: Maura McAdam & James A. Cunningham (ed.), Entrepreneurial Behaviour, chapter 12, pages 283-315, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-04402-2_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-04402-2_12
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