Social entrepreneurship, age and gender: toward a model of social involvement in entrepreneurship

Séverine Le Loarne-Lemaire, Adnan Maalaoui and Léo-Paul Dana

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2017, vol. 31, issue 3, 363-381

Abstract: How and why does an entrepreneur decide to embark in social entrepreneurship and/or in a sustainable business? While the existing literature suggests that social entrepreneurs tend to be females and/or seniors, our findings indicate that these two groups have important differences; based on the analysis of the verbatim of entrepreneurs, our findings reveal that seniors claim to enter social enterprises with a conscious willingness to help society, while female entrepreneurs are less focused on social implication.

Keywords: age; gender; France; seniorpreneurship; social entrepreneurship. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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