Who Are The Social "Entrepreneurs" and What Do They Actually Do?

Steinerowski, A and Jack, S L and Farmer, J (2010) Who Are The Social "Entrepreneurs" and What Do They Actually Do? Working Paper. Institute for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development, Lancaster University.

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Abstract

There is increasing interest in the social entrepreneur and the process of social entrepreneurship. This has led to criticisms of fuzziness surrounding these concepts. This paper explores the concept of the social entrepreneur, considering whether social entrepreneurs can really be termed "entrepreneurs" or if they are something else - individuals motivated by meeting social objectives to achieve social change. Drawing on structuration theory, we place the agent (a social entrepreneur) in the structure (a social system/the context), arguing that they are engaged in a process of co-constructing the current momentum in social entrepreneurship development.

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Monograph (Working Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? social entrepreneursocial entrepreneurshipruralstructurationdiscipline-based research ??
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49000
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Deposited On:
11 Jul 2011 21:27
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18 Dec 2023 00:50