Social Entrepreneurship: Creating New Business Models to Serve the Poor

By C. Seelos, Johanna Mair. 2005

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Economic Growth, Increasing Productivity of SMEs, and Open Innovation (2021, background): “Thus, small and medium enterprises will develop well if they have the ability to access potential markets through government policy support followed by innovation and business management development [90,91].”
Designing a global standardized methodology for measuring social entrepreneurship activity: the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor social entrepreneurship study (2011, background): “Here, the notion “social” refers to the fact that social entrepreneurs develop products and services that “cater directly to basic human needs that remain unsatisfied by current economic or social institutions” (Seelos & Mair, 2005: 243-244).”
Balancing a Hybrid Business Model: The Search for Equilibrium at Cafédirect (2018, background): “Research has noted that social enterprises have access to fewer resources than commercial ventures, because those controlling resources (such as investors) are uncertain about how the organization will combine the social objectives with a financial return (Austin et al. 2006; Hansmann 1980; Seelos a”
Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development: A Review and Multilevel Causal Mechanism Framework (2019, background): “…to social value creation, considering remediation of social services no longer provided by state institutions, but also achieving ‘shared value creation’ with positive outcomes for both entrepreneurial venture and local communities (Kroeger & Weber, 2014; Rahdari et al., 2016; Seelos & Mair, 2005).”
Recognizing Opportunities for Sustainable Development (2011, background): “Finally, existing research and anecdotal evidence suggest that many social entrepreneurs possess knowledge about markets and ways to serve them (Seelos & Mair, 2005a; Zahra et al., 2009), but current models of opportunity recognition do not consider a moderating influence of this type of knowledge…”
Scaling Social Impact: Building Sustainable Social Ventures at the Base-of-the-Pyramid (2014, background): “For ventures serving BoP markets in developing countries, some way of bridging the gap in their ability to pay must be found (Seelos and Mair 2005; Hartigan 2006).”
Social Enterprises as Hybrid Organizations: A Review and Research Agenda (2014, background): “The innovativeness of SEs has also been linked to resource constraints that, in turn, have created opportunities for new markets, products and services (Mair and Martì 2006; Seelos and Mair 2005; Di Domenico et al. 2010).”
Business Models for Sustainable Innovation: State of the Art and Steps Towards a Research Agenda (2013, background): “Grameen Bank offers micro-credits to persons who could never borrow from commercial banks due to a lack of collateral (Seelos and Mair, 2005).”
Venturing for Others with Heart and Head: How Compassion Encourages Social Entrepreneurship (2012, background): “Social entrepreneurship typically emerges in contexts where markets are perceived to have failed (McMullen, 2011) or where there are significant institutional voids (Austin et al., 2006; Dart, 2004; Haugh, 2005; Mair & Marti, 2009; Seelos & Mair, 2005).”
Supporting rural entrepreneurship: a review of conceptual developments from research to practice (2014, background): “…for artisanal businesses), Sekem in Egypt (using agricultural technology profits to reinvest in public health and education projects) (Seelos & Mair, 2005), and Mondragón Cooperative Corporation in Spain (an entrepreneurship cooperative built on humanitarian values) (Errasti, Heras,…”
Social entrepreneurship education in higher education: insights from a developing country (2013, background): “%) students intend to work for themselves by starting their own businesses (45.2%), as discovered by other scholars like Seelos and Mair (2005), and Kirby and Ibrahim (2011).”
Toward a theory of transformative entrepreneuring: Poverty reduction and conflict resolution in Rwanda's entrepreneurial coffee sector (2013, background): “…research has focused on how entrepreneurs combine resources (Meyskens et al., 2010), develop original business models alone or in collaboration (Seelos & Mair, 2005; 2007; Webb et al, 2010), face institutional challenges (Kistruck et al, 2011), and alter existing institutional arrangements…”
An empirical analysis of the factors affecting social entrepreneurial intentions (2017, background): “It can be considered as a catalyst in the form of social capabilities and conquer inequalities across different spheres (social, economic and political) that can bridge the gap by making social and economic development desirable (Light 2006; Mair 2008; Seelos and Mair 2005).”