Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship

By W. Phillips, Hazel. Lee, Abby Ghobadian, Nicholas O'Regan, P. James. 2015

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Corporate social responsibility (CSR) literature suggests CSR initiatives extend beyond meeting the immediate interests of stakeholders of for-profit enterprises, offering the potential to also enhance performance. Growing disillusionment of for-profit business models has drawn attention to social entrepreneurship and social innovation to ease social issues. Adopting a systematic review of relevant research, the article provides collective insights into research linking social innovation with social entrepreneurship, demonstrating growing interest in the area over the last decade. The past 5 years have seen a surge in attention with particular focus on the role of the entrepreneur, networks, systems, institutions, and cross-sectoral partnerships. Based on the findings of the review, the authors synthesize formerly dispersed fields of research into an analytical framework, signposting a “systems of innovation” approach for future studies of social innovation and social entrepreneurship.

Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Marketing, Strategy and Management

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In Management of Technology and Innovation

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2. Justin Paul
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4. Matthew S. Wood
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In Marketing

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In Strategy and Management

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7. Matthew S. Wood
8. Catherine Prentice

Citations in the corpus

• Social entrepreneurship research: A review and future research agenda (2020, background): “A careful examination of these studies reveals that existing review studies either focus on specific aspects of SE (Phillips, Lee, Ghobadian, O’Regan, & James, 2015; Dufays & Huybrechts, 2014; Kraus, Filser, O’Dwyer, & Shaw, 2014; Lee et al., 2014) or provide a broad overview of the SE research as…”
• Innovation and profit motivations for social entrepreneurship: A fuzzy-set analysis (2019, background): “The motivation to innovate is an important issue for social entrepreneurship (Phillips et al., 2015), because innovative new products and services, and/or innovative production and distribution processes, may be necessary to solve the “market failure” and “government failure” problems (Santos, 2012)”
• Social Entrepreneurship Research: Past Achievements and Future Promises (2018, unknown): “Furthermore, the ambiguity of the term has made it difficult to demarcate SE from other phenomena, such as charity and philanthropy (Acs, Boardman, & McNeely, 2013), sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR; Nicolopoulou, 2014), social innovation (Phillips et al., 2015) and commercial”
• Entrepreneurship and Subjective Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Psychological Functioning (2019, background): “Even if entrepreneurs are not intrinsically motivated to help their local communities, many may still engage in such civic behaviors because it is “simply good business” (Mackey & Sisodia, 2014) that can lead to positive branding (Phillips et al., 2015).”