Opportunity Recognition in Social Entrepreneurship

Othmar M. Lehner and Juha Kansikas

Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies, 2012, vol. 21, issue 1, 25-58

Abstract: Opportunity recognition (OR) is at the very heart of entrepreneurship. However, research on OR in the context of social entrepreneurship is still in its early stages. First, this article identifies, codifies and analyses OR-relevant articles on social entrepreneurship (SE) through the lens of Sarasvathy’s three views of entrepreneurial opportunity recognition. In the second step, statistical methods are applied on the results to indicate possible correlations among different schools of thought in SE and views on OR. OR in social ventures is found to be a prevalent topic in SE literature and differences in OR between social and commercial ventures are found.

Keywords: social entrepreneurship; opportunity recognition; meta-analysis; thematic-analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1177/097135571102100102

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