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Ans Kolk - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Social Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa
Academy of Management Perspectives, 2015Co-Authors: Miguel Rivera-santos, Diane Holt, David Littlewood, Ans KolkAbstract:Responding to calls for a better understanding of the relationship between Social enterprises and their environments, this article focuses on contextual influences on Social Entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa. We identify four predominantly African contextual dimensions (acute poverty, informality, colonial history, and ethnic group identity) and explore their influence on the way Social ventures perceive themselves and on their choice of activities. Our empirical study of 384 Social enterprises from 19 sub-Saharan African countries suggests that ethnic group identity and acute poverty levels influence both self-perception and activity choices, the country's colonial history influences only self-perception, and informality has no significant influence on either. These findings point to the need to consider both self-perception and the choice of activities in defining Social Entrepreneurship. Our study also highlights the importance of African contextual dimensions for understanding Social Entrepreneurship, and underlines the added value of incorporating insights from African data into management research more broadly.
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Social Entrepreneurship in sub saharan africa
Social Science Research Network, 2014Co-Authors: Miguel Riverasantos, Diane Holt, David Littlewood, Ans KolkAbstract:Responding to calls for a better understanding of the relationship between Social enterprises and their environments, this article focuses on contextual influences on Social Entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa. We identify four predominantly African contextual dimensions, i.e., acute poverty, informality, colonial history, and ethnic group identity, and explore their influence on the way Social ventures perceive themselves and on their choice of activities. Our empirical study of 384 Social enterprises from 19 sub-Saharan African countries suggests that ethnic group identity and high poverty levels influence both self-perception and activity choices, while the country’s colonial history only influences self-perception and informality has no significant influence on either. These findings point to the need to consider both self-perception and the choice of activities in defining Social Entrepreneurship. Our study also highlights the importance of African contextual dimensions for understanding Social Entrepreneurship, and underlines the added value of incorporating insights from African data into management research more broadly.
Scott L Newbert - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Social impact measurement current approaches and future directions for Social Entrepreneurship research
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2019Co-Authors: Hans Rawhouser, Michael E Cummings, Scott L NewbertAbstract:Despite the importance of Social impact to Social Entrepreneurship research, standards for measuring an organization’s Social impact are underdeveloped on both theoretical and empirical grounds. We...
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what s holding back Social Entrepreneurship removing the impediments to theoretical advancement
Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 2015Co-Authors: Susan Mueller, Robert S Dintino, Jennifer M Walske, Michel Leon Ehrenhard, Scott L Newbert, Jeffrey A Robinson, Jason C SenjemAbstract:This article summarizes four contributions that were presented in a professional development workshop at the 2013 Academy of Management conference. The goal of the workshop was to discuss impediments to the theoretical advancement of Social Entrepreneurship. This paper's first two contributors discuss assumptions and boundaries of Social Entrepreneurship, exhibiting contrasting views of whether theory should be aggregated or disaggregated. The other two scholars focus on specific topics that advance Social Entrepreneurship research, specifically, studying the implicit normative underpinning of Social Entrepreneurship and Social innovation processes. This is part three of a three-part series dealing with the future of Social Entrepreneurship research and theory
Hans Rawhouser - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Social impact measurement current approaches and future directions for Social Entrepreneurship research
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2019Co-Authors: Hans Rawhouser, Michael E Cummings, Scott L NewbertAbstract:Despite the importance of Social impact to Social Entrepreneurship research, standards for measuring an organization’s Social impact are underdeveloped on both theoretical and empirical grounds. We...
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globalization of Social Entrepreneurship opportunities
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 2008Co-Authors: Shaker A Zahra, Hans Rawhouser, Nachiket Bhawe, Donald O Neubaum, James C HaytonAbstract:Social Entrepreneurship has emerged as an important research topic in the literature. This interest stems from Social entrepreneurs' role in addressing serious Social problems on a worldwide scale while enhancing Social wealth, often without regard for profits. In this article, we explain the forces contributing to the formation and rapid internationalization of Social ventures. We use the behavioral theory of the firm to distill key attributes of Social opportunities and show how these attributes influence the timing and geographic scope of Social ventures' international operations. Copyright © 2008 Strategic Management Society.
Timothy J Vogus - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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studying the origins of Social Entrepreneurship compassion and the role of embedded agency
Social Science Research Network, 2013Co-Authors: Matthew G Grimes, Jeffery S Mcmullen, Timothy J Vogus, Toyah MillerAbstract:Arend's response to our paper furthers the discussion on the origins of Social Entrepreneurship by suggesting that our focus on the motivational origins of Social Entrepreneurship is misplaced. We address his critiques by highlighting the fact that the Social entrepreneur in our model is an embedded agent. While societal forces may shape the role of Social entrepreneur and the scripts associated with Social Entrepreneurship, our model recognizes that individuals must be motivated to assume that role. In clarifying our approach, we offer an agenda for future research that recognizes the need for a more, not less, comprehensive approach essential to understanding a phenomenon as complex as Social Entrepreneurship.
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studying the origins of Social Entrepreneurship compassion and the role of embedded agency
Academy of Management Review, 2013Co-Authors: Matthew G Grimes, Jeffery S Mcmullen, Timothy J Vogus, Toyah MillerAbstract:The article presents the authors' comments on critiques of their research on the process of Social Entrepreneurship in which economic theories are applied to Social problems. Topics include the role of compassion in the origins of Social Entrepreneurship; Social entrepreneurs as an embedded agent with individual motivations; and the combination of a Social mission with the methodology of a business venture.
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venturing for others with heart and head how compassion encourages Social Entrepreneurship
Academy of Management Review, 2012Co-Authors: Toyah L Miller, Matthew G Grimes, Jeffery S Mcmullen, Timothy J VogusAbstract:Social Entrepreneurship has emerged as a complex yet promising organizational form in which market-based methods are used to address seemingly intractable Social issues, but its motivations remain undertheorized. Research asserts that compassion may supplement traditional self-oriented motivations in encouraging Social Entrepreneurship. We draw on research on compassion and proSocial motivation to build a model of three mechanisms (integrative thinking, proSocial cost-benefit analysis, and commitment to alleviating others' suffering) that transform compassion into Social Entrepreneurship, and we identify the institutional conditions under which they are most likely to do so. We conclude by discussing the model's contribution to and implications for the positive organizational scholarship literature, Entrepreneurship literature, and Social Entrepreneurship literature.
Toyah Miller - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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studying the origins of Social Entrepreneurship compassion and the role of embedded agency
Social Science Research Network, 2013Co-Authors: Matthew G Grimes, Jeffery S Mcmullen, Timothy J Vogus, Toyah MillerAbstract:Arend's response to our paper furthers the discussion on the origins of Social Entrepreneurship by suggesting that our focus on the motivational origins of Social Entrepreneurship is misplaced. We address his critiques by highlighting the fact that the Social entrepreneur in our model is an embedded agent. While societal forces may shape the role of Social entrepreneur and the scripts associated with Social Entrepreneurship, our model recognizes that individuals must be motivated to assume that role. In clarifying our approach, we offer an agenda for future research that recognizes the need for a more, not less, comprehensive approach essential to understanding a phenomenon as complex as Social Entrepreneurship.
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studying the origins of Social Entrepreneurship compassion and the role of embedded agency
Academy of Management Review, 2013Co-Authors: Matthew G Grimes, Jeffery S Mcmullen, Timothy J Vogus, Toyah MillerAbstract:The article presents the authors' comments on critiques of their research on the process of Social Entrepreneurship in which economic theories are applied to Social problems. Topics include the role of compassion in the origins of Social Entrepreneurship; Social entrepreneurs as an embedded agent with individual motivations; and the combination of a Social mission with the methodology of a business venture.
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Social Entrepreneurship key issues and concepts
Business Horizons, 2008Co-Authors: Trevis S Certo, Toyah MillerAbstract:Entrepreneurship involves the identification, evaluation, and exploitation of opportunities (Shane & Venkataraman, 2000). In this sense, opportunities represent occasions to bring new products or services into existence such that individuals or organizations are able to sell new outputs at prices higher than their cost of production. (For an excellent review of opportunities and Entrepreneurship, see Eckhardt & Shane, 2003.) The implication, of course, in this definition is that the fundamental mission of entrepreneurial activities involves profit generation, and these profits help entrepreneurs to build personal wealth. In recent years Social Entrepreneurship, a subdiscipline within the field of Entrepreneurship, has gained increasing attention from Entrepreneurship scholars. Social Entrepreneurship involves the recognition, evaluation, and exploitation of opportunities that result in Social value — the basic and long-standing needs of society — as opposed to personal or shareholder wealth (Austin, Stevenson, & Wei-Skillern, 2006). Social value has little to do with profits but instead involves the fulfillment of basic and long-standing needs such as providing food, water, shelter, education, and medical services to those members of society who are in need.
