Social Entrepreneurship and Broader Theories: Shedding New Light on the “Bigger Picture”
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In: Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, Vol. 4, No. 1, 01.03.2013, p. 88-107.
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T1 - Social Entrepreneurship and Broader Theories
T2 - Shedding New Light on the “Bigger Picture”
AU - Zeyen, Anica
AU - Beckmann, Markus
AU - Mueller, Susan
AU - Dees, J. Gregory
AU - Khanin, Dmitry
AU - Krueger, Norris
AU - Murphy, Patrick J.
AU - Santos, Filipe
AU - Scarlata,, Mariarosa
AU - Walske, Jennifer
AU - Zacharakis, Andrew
PY - 2013/3/1
Y1 - 2013/3/1
N2 - This article documents the results of a research workshop bringing together six perspectives on social entrepreneurship. The idea was to challenge existing concepts of the economy, the firm, and entrepreneurship in order to shed new light on social entrepreneurship and on our existing theoretical frameworks. The first two contributions use a macro-perspective and discuss the notion of adaptive societies and the tragedies of disharmonization, respectively. Taking a management perspective, the next two focus on the limits of conventional assumptions in management theory, particularly human capital theory and resource-based view. The final two contributions follow an entrepreneurship perspective highlighting the usefulness of mobilization theory and the business model lens to social entrepreneurship. Despite this diversity, all contributions share the fact that they challenge narrow definitions of the unit of analysis in social entrepreneurship; they illustrate the aspect of social embeddedness, and they argue for an open-but-disciplined diversity of theories in social entrepreneurship research.
AB - This article documents the results of a research workshop bringing together six perspectives on social entrepreneurship. The idea was to challenge existing concepts of the economy, the firm, and entrepreneurship in order to shed new light on social entrepreneurship and on our existing theoretical frameworks. The first two contributions use a macro-perspective and discuss the notion of adaptive societies and the tragedies of disharmonization, respectively. Taking a management perspective, the next two focus on the limits of conventional assumptions in management theory, particularly human capital theory and resource-based view. The final two contributions follow an entrepreneurship perspective highlighting the usefulness of mobilization theory and the business model lens to social entrepreneurship. Despite this diversity, all contributions share the fact that they challenge narrow definitions of the unit of analysis in social entrepreneurship; they illustrate the aspect of social embeddedness, and they argue for an open-but-disciplined diversity of theories in social entrepreneurship research.
KW - Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics
KW - Social Entrepreneurship
KW - Adaptive efficiency
KW - business models
KW - mobilization theory
KW - resource-based view
KW - tragedy of the commons
KW - Adaptive efficiency
KW - business models
KW - mobilization theory
KW - resource-based view
KW - tragedy of the commons
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UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/1d6dcd2e-583b-3e50-91f5-61fd6d204fb8/
U2 - 10.1080/19420676.2012.725422
DO - 10.1080/19420676.2012.725422
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 4
SP - 88
EP - 107
JO - Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
JF - Journal of Social Entrepreneurship
SN - 1942-0676
IS - 1
ER -