Social Entrepreneurship: A Critique and Future Directions

M. Tina Dacin (), Peter A. Dacin () and Paul Tracey ()
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M. Tina Dacin: Queen's School of Business, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
Peter A. Dacin: Queen's School of Business, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
Paul Tracey: Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1AG, United Kingdom

Organization Science, 2011, vol. 22, issue 5, 1203-1213

Abstract: Work on social entrepreneurship constitutes a field of study that intersects a number of domains, including entrepreneurial studies, social innovation, and nonprofit management. Scholars are beginning to contribute to the development of this new discipline through efforts that attempt to trace the emergence of social entrepreneurship as well as by comparing it to other organizational activities such as conventional entrepreneurship. However, as a nascent field, social entrepreneurship scholars are in the midst of a number of debates involving definitional and conceptual clarity, boundaries of the field, and a struggle to arrive at a set of relevant and meaningful research questions. This paper examines the promise of social entrepreneurship as a domain of inquiry and suggests a number of research areas and research questions for future study.

Keywords: social entrepreneurship; institutional theory; organization and management theory; social network approach; entrepreneurship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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