Taking social entrepreneurship seriously

By J. Gregory Dees. 2007

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Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation

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Social innovation in emerging economies: A National Systems of Innovation based approach (2017, background): “‘‘social entrepreneurship is emerging as an innovative approach for dealing with complex social needs’’ (Johnson, 2000: 1), being driven by social goals in order to benefit society (Dees, 2007; Peredo & McLean, 2006).”
Delineating the Domain of Development Entrepreneurship: A Market–Based Approach to Facilitating Inclusive Economic Growth (2011, background): “Thus, despite arguments to the contrary (e.g., Dees, 2007), it may be necessary when considering SE’s role in economic growth to distinguish between social innovation that does not expect to realize earned income and social entrepreneurship, which expects to realize earned income but, unlike BE,…”
Negotiating Tensions: How Do Social Enterprises in the Homelessness Field Balance Social and Commercial Considerations? (2012, background): “The application of commercial logics to social problems that had proved beyond bureaucratic governments and well meaning but inefficient charities (Dees, 2007 ) was popularized as a way to ‘change the world’ (Bornstein, 2001 ).”
Venturing for Others with Heart and Head: How Compassion Encourages Social Entrepreneurship (2012, background): “As such, several scholars have suggested that compassion may act as a prosocial and emotional motivator of social entrepreneurship (Dees, 1998, 2007; Fowler, 2000), but they have left the mechanisms by which it does so undertheorized.”
Mapping the Intellectual Structure of Social Entrepreneurship Research: A Citation/Co-citation Analysis (2019, neutral): “(2011), Nicholls (2009) 5a Certo and Miller (2008), Corner and Ho (2010), Dees (2007), Di Domenico et al.”
Examining the influence of servant and entrepreneurial leadership on the work outcomes of employees in social enterprises (2018, background): “Due to the challenges they pose to traditional business, social enterprises have most often been defined as innovative experiments with a double bottom line (financial and pro-social) in the social sector rather than the economic sector (Dart, 2004; Dees, 2007).”
The Impact of Moral Intensity and Desire for Control on Scaling Decisions in Social Entrepreneurship (2016, background): “Although research has focused on individual level factors that influence a decision to start a social venture (e.g., Miller et al. 2012; Dees 2007), little research has focused on individual level factors that affect a decision to scale social impact.”