A Positive Theory of Social Entrepreneurship

By Filipe M. Santos. Journal of Business Ethics, 2012

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

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The Scientometrics of Social Entrepreneurship and Its Establishment as an Academic Field1 (2018, result): “…with more general studies which try to describe or define the phenomenon, occasionally with rather conflicting results (for instance, compare Santos 2009 with Schramm 2010; see Dacin, Dacin, and Matear 2010 for an overview and Huybrechts and Nicholls 2012 for an up-to-date reflection on…”
Empowering Women through Social Entrepreneurship: Case Study of a Women's Cooperative in India (2012, background): “Researchers have claimed that social enterprise ventures operate from the logic of empowerment rather than control and that empowerment approaches can be embedded in a business model (Mair & Schoen, 2007; Santos, 2009).”
Social Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa (2015, background): “Many authors let social entrepreneurs self-identify (Mair et al., 2012; Meyskens et al., 2010; Santos, 2012) and thus rely on the entrepreneurs’ perception of themselves and their ventures, while others analyze their activities on the ground instead.”
The Social and Economic Mission of Social Enterprises: Dimensions, Measurement, Validation, and Relation (2015, background): “From this perspective, it has been argued that for social enterprises, the issue of internal representation—giving voice to both the economic and social missions in the organization (Pache & Santos, 2012)—is crucial in resolving these tensions.”
Social Entrepreneurship Research: Past Achievements and Future Promises (2018, neutral): “…key in SE, a predominant view suggests that the “true social entrepreneurs who care for value creation try to make themselves dispensable” and “invite competition instead of resisting it, since replication of the innovative solutions will increase the value created to society” (Santos, 2012: 346).”
Mapping the Intellectual Structure of Social Entrepreneurship Research: A Citation/Co-citation Analysis (2019, neutral): “Santos (2012) highlights the concepts of value creation and appropriation and discusses how the conflict between the two can lead to ethical challenges for SEs.”
Innovation and profit motivations for social entrepreneurship: A fuzzy-set analysis (2019, background): “, 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) that precipitate or allow social problems to persist.”
What’s in a Name: An Analysis of Impact Investing Understandings by Academics and Practitioners (2015, background): “2006; Nicholls 2009) and the increased attention the phenomenon has received from policymakers and academia (Hoogendoorn et al. 2010; Nicholls 2009; Santos 2012; Short et al. 2009; Zahra et al. 2009).”
An Effectual Approach to International Entrepreneurship: Overlaps, Challenges, and Provocative Possibilities (2014, neutral): “…theoretical frameworks such as institutional theory (Mair & Marti, 2006), corporate demography (York & Lenox, 2013), market and government failure (Santos, 2012), and even effectuation (Corner & Ho, 2010) to social entrepreneurship, they are also beginning to collect rigorous data sets and moving…”
Market orientation, market disruptiveness capability and social enterprise performance: An empirical study from the United Kingdom (2019, background): “financial self-sufficiency, and improve their economic performance, but also have to focus on enhancing their social performance (Dart, 2004b; DTI, 2002; Santos, 2012).”
Social entrepreneurship: Creating value in the context of institutional complexity (2017, background): “…exist, and all converge on the combination of entrepreneurship and social mission (Alvord, Brown, & Letts, 2004; Azmat, Ferdous, & Couchman, 2015; Dacin et al., 2010; Dees, 2001; Facca-Miess & Nicholas, 2014; Mair &Marti, 2009; Santos, 2012; Zahra, Gedajlovic, Neubaum, & Shulman, 2009).”
Social Enterprises as Hybrid Organizations: A Review and Research Agenda (2014, background): “…two different species (OED 2010) and, in the organization and management literature, the term has been employed to describe organizations that span institutional boundaries (Brandsen and Karré 2011; Jay 2013; Pache and Santos 2012; Smith 2010) and operate in multiple functional domains (Ruef 2000).”
A Social Enterprise Approach to Empowering Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Indonesia (2020, background): “According to Santos [24], a social enterprise is an organization that trades to generate positive social and environmental externalities rather than private gain.”