TY - JOUR
T1 - Social entrepreneurship research
T2 - A source of explanation, prediction, and delight
AU - Mair, Johanna
AU - Martí Lanuza, I.
PY - 2006/2
Y1 - 2006/2
N2 - Social entrepreneurship, as a practice and a field for scholarly investigation, provides a unique opportunity to challenge, question, and rethink concepts and assumptions from different fields of management and business research. This article puts forward a view of social entrepreneurship as a process that catalyzes social change and addresses important social needs in a way that is not dominated by direct financial benefits for the entrepreneurs. Social entrepreneurship is seen as differing from other forms of entrepreneurship in the relatively higher priority given to promoting social value and development versus capturing economic value. To stimulate future research the authors introduce the concept of embeddedness as a nexus between theoretical perspectives for the study of social entrepreneurship.
AB - Social entrepreneurship, as a practice and a field for scholarly investigation, provides a unique opportunity to challenge, question, and rethink concepts and assumptions from different fields of management and business research. This article puts forward a view of social entrepreneurship as a process that catalyzes social change and addresses important social needs in a way that is not dominated by direct financial benefits for the entrepreneurs. Social entrepreneurship is seen as differing from other forms of entrepreneurship in the relatively higher priority given to promoting social value and development versus capturing economic value. To stimulate future research the authors introduce the concept of embeddedness as a nexus between theoretical perspectives for the study of social entrepreneurship.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=31744440089&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jwb.2005.09.002
DO - 10.1016/j.jwb.2005.09.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:31744440089
SN - 1090-9516
VL - 41
SP - 36
EP - 44
JO - Journal of World Business
JF - Journal of World Business
IS - 1
ER -