Introduction

Johanna Mair, Jeffrey Robinson and Kai Hockerts

Chapter 1 in Social Entrepreneurship, 2006, pp 1-13 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The concept of social entrepreneurship (SE) is, in practice, recognized as encompassing a wide range of activities: enterprising individuals devoted to making a difference; social purpose business ventures dedicated to adding for-profit motivations to the nonprofit sector; new types of philanthropists supporting venture capital-like ‘investment’ portfolios; and nonprofit organizations that are reinventing themselves by drawing on lessons learned from the business world. In the past decade ‘social entrepreneurship’ has made a popular name for itself on the global scene as a ‘new phenomenon’ that is reshaping the way we think about social value creation. Some of these practices are uniquely new however many have been around for a long time having finally reached critical mass under a widely endorsed label.

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate Social Performance; Social Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial Intention; Social Entrepreneur (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230625655_1

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