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Learning goals
Upon completing this chapter, you should be able to accomplish the following:
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Explain the potential role of social entrepreneurship in market economies.
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Recognize the function of social entrepreneurs in addition to commercial entrepreneurs and the state as suppliers of goods and services.
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Explain the scope of activity of social enterprises in relation to their potential for value creation and appropriation.
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Characterize typical areas of activity of social entrepreneurs and provide examples.
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Nicholls, A. (2010), “The Legitimacy of Social Entrepreneurship: Reflexive Isomorphism in a Pre- Paradigmatic Field”, in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 611–633.
Santos, F.M. (2009), “A Positive Theory of Social Entrepreneurship”, INSEAD Faculty & Research Working Paper, 2009/23/EFE/ISIC.
Swedberg, R. (2011), “Schumpeter’s full model of entrepreneurship: economic, non-economic and social entrepreneurship”, in Ziegler, R. (ed.), An introduction to social entrepreneurship, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 77–106.
Zahra, S.A., Gedajlovic, E., Neubaum, D.O. and Shulman, J.M. (2009), “A typology of social entrepreneurs: Motives, search processes and ethical challenges”, in Journal of Business Venturing, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 519–532.
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Grünhagen, M., Berg, H. (2012). Social Entrepreneurship in the Market System. In: Volkmann, C., Tokarski, K., Ernst, K. (eds) Social Entrepreneurship and Social Business. Gabler Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8349-7093-0_11
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