Social Entrepreneurship and Societal Transformation

By Sarah H. Alvord, L. Brown, Christine W. Letts. 2004

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Finance, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Digital Sustainability and Entrepreneurship: How Digital Innovations Are Helping Tackle Climate Change and Sustainable Development (2020, background): “Indicative studies have focused on organizational work to empower women (Datta & Gailey, 2012), overcome poverty ( Alvord et al., 2004), and expand access to finance to disadvantaged communities ( Azmat et al., 2015 ).”
Social entrepreneurship: Creating value in the context of institutional complexity (2017, background): “Alvord et al. (2004) show that mobilizing grassroots assets and empowering marginalized groups to collectively participate or organize themselves locally are keys to successful social ventures.”
Youth-led social change: Topics, engagement types, organizational types, strategies, and impacts (2015, background): “Youth-led engagement leading to social change can occur in many different ways, and there may be multiple engagement types that address a single topic (Alvord et al., 2004; Ilkiw, 2010; Wilson, 2000).”
Defining the ‘Social’ in ‘Social Entrepreneurship’: Altruism and Entrepreneurship (2005, background): “There have been three approaches in considering this form of entrepreneurship ( Alvord, Brown and Letts, 2002 ): social entrepreneurship viewed as combining”
Mapping the Intellectual Structure of Social Entrepreneurship Research: A Citation/Co-citation Analysis (2019, neutral): “On similar lines, Alvord et al. (2004), Nicholls (2006), and Seelos and Mair (2005) discuss the conceptualization and emergence of the social entrepreneurship phenomenon.”
Social entrepreneurship as an essentially contested concept: Opening a new avenue for systematic future research (2014, background): “Similarly, social entrepreneurs are considered as innovators in the social sphere who drive important social change (Mair and Martí, 2006; Mair et al., 2012; Prabhu, 1999), sustainable social transformation (Alvord et al., 2004), and pattern-breaking change (Martin and Osberg, 2007).”
Social, Environmental and Sustainable Entrepreneurship Research (2015, background): “Participative collaboration Requisite acknowledged: Collaborative behaviour (Alvord et al., 2004) acknowledged through examination of community-based enterprises and social capital (Montgomery, Dacin, & Dacin, 2012) but some research assume hero entrepreneur acting alone (Dey & Steyaert, 2010; Lehne”
Delineating the Domain of Development Entrepreneurship: A Market–Based Approach to Facilitating Inclusive Economic Growth (2011, background): “…of political elites in LDCs to initiate institutional reforms (Easterly, 2001, 2006), many reform efforts that have led to institutional change have begun as grassroots movements initiated by social entrepreneurs (Alvord et al., 2004) and socio-political activists (Martin & Osberg, 2007).”
A Conceptual Model of Social Entrepreneurial Intention Based on the Social Cognitive Career Theory (2016, background): “…innovative solutions is the explicit and central point of SE and it is the distinction from SE to other forms of entrepreneurship (Martin and Osberg, 2007; Zahra et al., 2008; Faltin, 2009; Austin and Wei Skillern, 2006; Peredo and McLean, 2006; Alvord et al., 2004; MacMillan, 2003; Fowler, 2000).”
Opportunities for marketing researchers in international entrepreneurship (2006, background): “Nor have researchers limited the industry focus limited to high technology (arguably today's most high-profile entrepreneurs) or to those ventures with goals of economic value alone, with social and community ventures researched as “social entrepreneurship” ( Alvord et al. , 2004”