Social Entrepreneurship: New Models of Sustainable Social Change

By A. Nicholls. 2008

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science

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Innovative Business Approaches for the Reduction of Extreme Poverty and Marginality (2011, background): “While there is no commonly agreed definition of social entrepreneurship, most authors agree on the three definitional features of social entrepreneurship as being sociality, innovation and market orientation (Nicholls 2006).”
Sustainable entrepreneurship and sustainability innovation: categories and interactions (2011, background): “Some authors have focussed exclusively on social entrepreneurship (Brinckerhoff, 2000; Borzaga and Solari, 2001; Prahalad and Hammond, 2002; Mair et al., 2005; Bright et al., 2006; Desa and Kotha, 2006a, 2006b; Milstein et al., 2006; Nicolls, 2006; Ridley-Duff, 2008; Bull, 2008).”
Mapping the Intellectual Structure of Social Entrepreneurship Research: A Citation/Co-citation Analysis (2019, positive): “In this phase of emergence, scholars attempted to explain the phenomenon of social entrepreneurship and the key role the social entrepreneur played within it (Alvord et al. 2004; Leadbeater 1997; Nicholls 2006; Seelos and Mair 2005).”
A Quantitative Comparison of Social and Commercial Entrepreneurship: Toward a More Nuanced Understanding of Social Entrepreneurship Organizations in Context (2013, background): “When it comes to human resources, social entrepreneurs are working with a wide variety of employees in terms of formal and informal relations and types of contracts (Turner and Martin 2005, Vidal 2005, Nyssens 2006). A study by Vidal and Claver (2006), based on 15 Spanish social enterprises, disting”
Social entrepreneurship as an essentially contested concept: Opening a new avenue for systematic future research (2014, background): “The internally complex character of social entrepreneurship has been acknowledged by several authors who described it as a complex, multi-dimensional concept (e.g. Nicholls, 2008; Weerawardena and Mort, 2006) and a multi-faceted phenomenon (Bacq and Janssen, 2011).”
Linking Social Entrepreneurship and Social Change: The Mediating Role of Empowerment (2016, background): “Social entrepreneurship offers solutions to a range of social problems (Nicholls 2006) and is acknowledged to be an effective mechanism for generating economic, social and environmental value (Acs et al. 2013; Austin et al. 2006; Murphy and Coombes 2009).”
Values Matter, Don’t They? – Combining Theory of Planned Behavior and Personal Values as Predictors of Social Entrepreneurial Intention (2018, background): “Social entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurial intention After decades of scholarly research almost exclusively focused on commercial entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship has been gaining attention among researchers (Nicholls 2008; Nga and Shamuganathan 2010; Kraus et al. 2014).”
What Do We Know about Social Entrepreneurship: An Analysis of Empirical Research (2010, background): “According to Nicholls (2006), the term “social entrepreneur” was first introduced in 1972 by Banks, who noted that social problems could also be deployed by managerial practices.”
Emerging models of social enterprise in Eastern Asia: a cross‐country analysis (2011, neutral): “It is why we also present hereafter a figure (Figure 1) based on those three classical spheres (i.e. the state, the market and civil society) already used, although differently, by Nicholls (2006) and Kerlin (2009).”
Individual capital and social entrepreneurship: Role of formal institutions (2020, background): “…addressing social needs that are not met by commercial enterprises (McMullen, 2011); facilitating social change through innovative approaches (Nicholls, 2008); satisfying unmet needs (Thompson, Alvy, & Lees, 2000); creating social value through market-based initiatives (Bacq & Janssen,…”
Scaling Social Impact: Building Sustainable Social Ventures at the Base-of-the-Pyramid (2014, background): “The emergent field of social entrepreneurship has antecedents across a research landscape which includes non-profit management, commercial entrepreneurship, international development, sustainability, and social responsibility (Short, Moss, and Lumpkin 2009; Desa 2009; Nicholls 2006; Mair and Marti 2”
The EMES Approach of Social Enterprise in a Comparative Perspective (2012, background): “…take roots in the third sector, and as many social enterprises are moreover likely to be located in those "connecting areas", they also actually experience those tensions, resulting in what various authors - such as Emerson (2006) - call the "blurring frontiers" of the social enterprise landscape.”
Why Create Value for Others? An Exploration of Social Entrepreneurial Motives (2016, background): “Rather than creating new ventures with the primary purpose of capturing financial gain, social entrepreneurs act creatively, innovatively, and resourcefully to fill a market-based gap in the provision of a social good or service to a target community (Austin, Stevenson, and WeiSkillern 2006; Nicholl”
Social Entrepreneurial Intention Formation of Corporate Volunteers (2013, background): “First, this definition does not require viewing entrepreneurs as founders of new organizations (Shane, Locke, and Collins 2003) but as entrepreneurial-acting change agents who move a company toward a more engaged social agenda (Nicholls 2006).”