Social Entrepreneurship: Definition and Boundaries

2012

236 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Most economists and academics support the notion that entrepreneurship is becoming a crucial factor in the development and well-being of societies. Whether the entrepreneurial activities are practiced in factordriven, efficiency-driven, or innovation-driven economies (Porter et al., 2002; tinyurl.com/7vwutgr), the ultimate results continue to exhibit: i) lower unemployment rates; ii) increased tendency to adopt innovation; and iii) accelerated structural changes in the economy. Entrepreneurship offers new competition, and as such promotes improved productivity and healthy economic competitiveness (UNCTAD, 2004; tinyurl.com/d3xkdj4).

Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation

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Citations in the corpus

• Pathways of SME internationalization: a bibliometric and systematic review (2019, unknown): “Entrepreneurial activities have shown to lower unemployment rates; increase innovation; augment productivity and in turn promote positive economic transformations (Abu-Saifan, 2012).”
• Values Matter, Don’t They? – Combining Theory of Planned Behavior and Personal Values as Predictors of Social Entrepreneurial Intention (2018, unknown): “Despite these differences, there is significant overlap between social and commercial enterprises (Abu-Saifan 2012). Both of them are run by innovative people who are dedicated to what they are doing, able to spot and exploit opportunities, and capable of gathering the resources necessary to reach t”