ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP AND SOCIAL CAPITAL IN UNIVERSITIES THROUGH SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Denisa Gilmeanu and Oana Gauca
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Denisa Gilmeanu: Bucharest University of Economic Studies
Oana Gauca: Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Management and Marketing Journal, 2017, vol. XV, issue 2, 22-33

Abstract: This is an exploratory study of the ways in which top universities use social entrepreneurship in order to increase the social capital of their internal stakeholders and of the university as a whole and the role played by academic leadership and academic leaders in strengthening the foundations of this social capital. We analyze eight of the top universities ranked worldwide by THE using a qualitative framework focused on their involvement in community programs and their affiliations with external stakeholders. The article presents a literature review of the ways in which social capital has been conceptualized in higher education and of its links with academic leadership, which forms the theoretical framework of the research. The results of the research show that all eight top universities have created (in various degrees) organizational structures for the support of social entrepreneurship and that these are specifically intended for the development of the social capital of internal stakeholders. The article shows that academic leaders should focus more intently on developing social entrepreneurship initiatives as these are the path towards achieving the third mission of universities and of ensuring that internal stakeholders increase their social capital and thus are able to achieve their maximum potential.

Keywords: social capital; academic leadership; university engagement; social entrepreneurship; higher education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M10 M20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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