Overcoming inertia: The social question in social entrepreneurship
(2012) p.242-256- Abstract
- The literature on social entrepreneurship continues to grow. This research is novel and vibrant, yet erratic and fragmented. In this chapter I first organize the burgeoning social-entrepreneurship literature into two streams: one conceptual stream concerned with defining social entrepreneurship; a second management- oriented stream concerned with the establishment and development of social ventures. Within the management-oriented research stream, three units of analysis can be further distinguished: the invidivudal, the organizational, and the inter- organizational levels. This organization of the literature highlights the need to develop a social approach to the study of the methods, strategies and notions used by social entrepreneurial... (More)
- The literature on social entrepreneurship continues to grow. This research is novel and vibrant, yet erratic and fragmented. In this chapter I first organize the burgeoning social-entrepreneurship literature into two streams: one conceptual stream concerned with defining social entrepreneurship; a second management- oriented stream concerned with the establishment and development of social ventures. Within the management-oriented research stream, three units of analysis can be further distinguished: the invidivudal, the organizational, and the inter- organizational levels. This organization of the literature highlights the need to develop a social approach to the study of the methods, strategies and notions used by social entrepreneurial initiatives in their work towards social change. Next, the essay takes a first step in this direction, suggesting a matrix for analysing the congruency between the social change aimed at by social entrepreneurial initiatives and the methods they use to ignite it. (Less)
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- Barinaga, Ester LU
- publishing date
- 2012
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- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- host publication
- Handbook on Organizational Entrepreneurship
- editor
- Hjorth, Daniel
- pages
- 242 - 256
- publisher
- Edward Elgar Publishing
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- scopus:84881921795
- ISBN
- 978-1-78195-165-1
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- English
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abstract = {{The literature on social entrepreneurship continues to grow. This research is novel and vibrant, yet erratic and fragmented. In this chapter I first organize the burgeoning social-entrepreneurship literature into two streams: one conceptual stream concerned with defining social entrepreneurship; a second management- oriented stream concerned with the establishment and development of social ventures. Within the management-oriented research stream, three units of analysis can be further distinguished: the invidivudal, the organizational, and the inter- organizational levels. This organization of the literature highlights the need to develop a social approach to the study of the methods, strategies and notions used by social entrepreneurial initiatives in their work towards social change. Next, the essay takes a first step in this direction, suggesting a matrix for analysing the congruency between the social change aimed at by social entrepreneurial initiatives and the methods they use to ignite it.}},
author = {{Barinaga, Ester}},
booktitle = {{Handbook on Organizational Entrepreneurship}},
editor = {{Hjorth, Daniel}},
isbn = {{978-1-78195-165-1}},
language = {{eng}},
pages = {{242--256}},
publisher = {{Edward Elgar Publishing}},
title = {{Overcoming inertia: The social question in social entrepreneurship}},
year = {{2012}},
}