Social Entrepreneurship: A Study on the Source and Discovery of Social Opportunities

Javier Monllor

Chapter 6 in Values and Opportunities in Social Entrepreneurship, 2010, pp 99-120 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Social entrepreneurship practice has progressed immensely in the last 30 years. Close to 80 million adults (Drucker, 1989) work for nearly 2 million citizen sector organizations of which 70% were established in the last 30 years (Davis, 2002). There has been a 40% increase in their number in the last decade (Johnson, 2000), 5% more than new business formation (Austin et al., 2006). Sensing the need to educate this new wave of social entrepreneurs, programs catering to the education of social entrepreneurs have begun to emerge in major and elite universities such as Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Duke and others.

Keywords: Market Failure; Social Entrepreneurship; Imperfect Information; Social Entrepreneur; Entrepreneurial Opportunity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230298026_6

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