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2. Social Entrepreneurship

verfasst von : Wolfgang Spiess-Knafl, Barbara Scheck

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This chapter discusses social entrepreneurship as the underlying basics of impact investing. Social entrepreneurship is the most promising form of addressing societal and/or environmental problems as it combines social and entrepreneurial thinking and there are different forms to address societal challenges. This chapter defines social entrepreneurship and discusses the various definitions. It also differentiates social entrepreneurship to other forms of providing social services and also analyzes different scaling strategies. Social enterprises can use different social business model innovations and six different strategies are discussed to provide some insights.

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Titel: Social Entrepreneurship
verfasst von: Wolfgang Spiess-Knafl
Barbara Scheck
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Impact Investing
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-66555-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-66556-6

Copyright-Jahr: 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66556-6_2

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