The social value of productive entrepreneurship

Zoltan Acs, Mary Boardman () and Connie McNeely ()

Small Business Economics, 2013, vol. 40, issue 3, 785-796

Abstract: As a critical contribution to the literature on social entrepreneurship, this paper provides structure and clarity to this concept, situating it within the context of charity and philanthropy as sources of social value creation. Identifying social entrepreneurship as creating both social and economic value, we discuss productive, unproductive, and destructive entrepreneurship in terms of social value creation. To illustrate these issues comparative case studies are presented on Microsoft Corporation and Grameen Bank. Even if their successes have been derived from different motivations, these highly innovative ventures have created significant economic and social value. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. 2013

Keywords: Social value creation; Social entrepreneurship; Philanthropy; Charity; D64; L26; M14; P12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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