Is It a Bird? The Social Entrepreneurial Superhero: Fact or Fiction?

Simon Adderley ()
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Simon Adderley: Oxford Brookes University

Chapter 12 in Entrepreneurial Behaviour, 2019, pp 283-315 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter presents a reflection upon the motivations behind the behaviours of social entrepreneurs. It argues that social entrepreneurship has, like entrepreneurship more generally, been adopted as a universally positive phrase. That for politicians and practitioners the concept of being a ‘social entrepreneur’ is inherently a ‘good thing’. However, the chapter maintains that in fact such a label is socially constructed. Indeed, when viewed through a geographical or gender perspective, the term rapidly loses cohesion. Instead, therefore, the chapter maintains that the motivations of individual actors are themselves socially constructed and understood.

Keywords: Social enterprise; Gender; Geography; Social construct; United Kingdom; Germany; Cyprus; Female; Entrepreneurship; Motivation; Behaviour (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-04402-2_12

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