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Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Social Purpose Business Ventures

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Social Entrepreneurship

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Literature on social entrepreneurship (SE) embraces an exceedingly broad range of topics. It covers individual, organizational, as well as interorganizational level phenomena (Boschee, 1995; Bornstein, 1996; Leadbeater, 1997; Brinckerhoff, 2000; Dees, Emerson and Economy, 2001a; Drayton, 2002; Johnson, 2002; Emerson, 2003; Mair and Martí, 2004). This paper focuses on the organizational level phenomenon of social enterprises. However, even this term leaves ample room for ambiguity.

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  1. IESE, Business School, University of Navarra, Barcelona, Spain

    Johanna Mair (Assistant Professor of General Management) (Assistant Professor of General Management)

  2. Stern School of Business, New York University, USA

    Jeffrey Robinson (Assistant Professor of Management) (Assistant Professor of Management)

  3. INSEAD’s Centre for the Management of Environmental and Social Responsibility (CMER), Fontainebleau, France

    Kai Hockerts (Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Programme Manager) (Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Programme Manager)

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Hockerts, K. (2006). Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Social Purpose Business Ventures. In: Mair, J., Robinson, J., Hockerts, K. (eds) Social Entrepreneurship. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230625655_10

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