Social entrepreneurship – a new look at the people and the potential

By John L. Thompson, Geoff Alvy, A. Lees. 2000

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Subfields: Finance, Political Science and International Relations

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Conceptualizing the International For-Profit Social Entrepreneur (2011, neutral): “(Thompson, 2002; Thompson et al., 2000).”
Social Entrepreneurship: A Critique and Future Directions (2011, neutral): “Whereas the formation of organizations to address social problems and create social value has always been an important feature of market economies (Hall 1987, Thompson et al. 2000), use of the term “social entrepreneurship” is a more recent phenomenon.”
Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Is Entrepreneurial will Enough? A North–South Comparison (2011, background): “These include the social and altruistic values found in social and environmental entrepreneurs which put others’, nature’s, and the community’s needs ahead of one’s own (Dees, 2001; Larson, 2000; Thomson et al., 2000).”
A process-based view of social entrepreneurship: From opportunity identification to scaling-up social change in the case of San Patrignano (2010, background): “The initial view of SE as centred on the development of managerial competencies and market-based attitudes by non-profit organizations to improve their operational efficiency and effectiveness (Newman and Wallender 1978 ; Dees and Elias 1998 ; Cannon 2000 ; Dart 2004 ) has been progressively rep”
Attention allocation to multiple goals: The case of for‐profit social enterprises (2015, background): “These findings also contribute to the social entrepreneurship literature where scholars have argued that the values of the entrepreneur are important in understanding social value creation (Thompson, Alvy, and Lees, 2000).”
Social Enterprises as Hybrid Organizations: A Review and Research Agenda (2014, background): “…recent studies exploring employment and volunteering have found the social component of the dual mission to be instrumental in enabling SE leaders to recruit (Battilana and Dorado 2010) and mobilize effort from employees, volunteers and supporters (Haugh 2007; Membretti 2007; Thompson et al. 2000).”
Analyzing Social Entrepreneurship from an Institutional Perspective: Evidence from Spain (2010, background): “In line with this view, several scholars have also sought to define the social entrepreneur (Thompson et al. 2000, Thompson 2002, Dees 2001, Johnson 2003, Bornstein 2004, Sharir and Lerner 2006, Shaw and Carter 2007).”
A contextualisation of entrepreneurship (2006, background): “Thus, it can be summarized that the organizational resources within small family tourism businesses are composed of economic, market and socially derived capital (Thompson et al., 2000).”
A conceptual framework for entrepreneurship education policy: Meeting government and economic purposes (2013, background): “Social entrepreneurship is claimed to have an important role (Christie and Honig, 2006) in an economy, in particular for wealth creation (Thompson et al., 2000) and local development and poverty reduction (Peredo and Chrisman, 2006).”