Social entrepreneurship: a different model?

By R. Spear. 2006

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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What Do We Know about Social Entrepreneurship: An Analysis of Empirical Research (2010, background): “Both Spear (2006) and Vidal (2005) found that social enterprises choose diverse legal forms.”
Social Entrepreneurship: An exploratory citation analysis (2013, background): “Aspects such as the difference between commercial and Social Entrepreneurship (Spear 2006), the financing of social enterprises (Boschee 1995; Dees 1998), how performance is viewed (Dees 1998; Nicholls 2009), or management qualities (Waddock and Post 1991; Forno and Merlone 2009) have been explored…”
A Typology of Social Entrepreneurs: Motives, search Processes and Ethical Challenges (2009, background): “To some, social entrepreneurship offers innovative solutions to complex and persistent social issues by applying traditional business and market-oriented models (Spear, 2006; Dorado, 2006; Mair and Noboa, 2003; Pearce and Doh, 2005).”
Analyzing Social Entrepreneurship from an Institutional Perspective: Evidence from Spain (2010, background): “In recent years, social entrepreneurship (SE) has been regarded as an important source of social, economic, cultural and environmental wealth (e.g. Spear 2006, Steyaert and Hjorth 2006, Leadbeater 2007, Shaw and Carter 2007).”
The Social and Economic Mission of Social Enterprises: Dimensions, Measurement, Validation, and Relation (2015, background): “The values and the morality of the individual social entrepreneur (e.g., Spear, 2006) are important in understanding the social in social entrepreneurship (Mort et al., 2003; Thompson, Alvy, & Lees, 2000; Waddock & Post, 1991).”
Social entrepreneurship education in higher education: insights from a developing country (2013, background): “In other studies, Thompson (2002) refers to social entrepreneurs in the non-profit sector, and Spear (2006) calls it entrepreneurship in a social context for non-commercial organisations.”
Scaling Social Impact: Building Sustainable Social Ventures at the Base-of-the-Pyramid (2014, background): “…that mediate the capability–impact relationship: resource mobilization (Meyskens et al. 2010; Desa and Basu 2013), operating routines (Bloom and Smith 2010; Bloom 2012; Yujuico 2008; Spear 2006; Crutchfield and Grant 2012), and entrepreneurial adjustments (Harper 1996; Ormiston and Seymour 2011).”
Recognizing Opportunities for Sustainable Development (2011, positive): “Consistent with our model, the social entrepreneurship literature emphasizes altruistic motives and the desire to help others as drivers of opportunity recognition (Hockerts, 2005; Mair & Noboa, 2003; Spear, 2006), but it has not investigated the role of perceived personal threat in this process.”
What Makes an Entrepreneurship Study Entrepreneurial? Toward A Unified Theory of Entrepreneurial Agency (2020, background): “…social entrepreneurship may be so different from economic entrepreneurship that knowledge about the latter cannot be transferred to the former and that the study of social entrepreneurship may therefore merit its own, entirely distinct, field (e.g., Mair & Noboa, 2006; Nicholls, 2010; Spear, 2006).”
Social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystems: Complementary or disjoint phenomena? (2017, background): “The theory presented begins to address calls to examine how interacting sets of factors influence the supply of social entrepreneurs (e.g. Spear, 2006).”
Social entrepreneurship and enterprise: International and innovation perspectives (2010, background): “public wanting services from social enterprises as customers); supply side factors (essentially the supply of social entrepreneurs) and contextual and institutional factors impacting on the relation between the two (Spear 2006 ).”
The Scientometrics of Social Entrepreneurship and Its Establishment as an Academic Field1 (2018, background): “Spear (2006) has suggested a different continuum approach, assessing social innovativeness to distinguish social entrepreneurship from other social business activities.”
The Institutionalization of Social Investment: The Interplay of Investment Logics and Investor Rationalities (2010, background): “To date, scholarly work on institutional innovation in the social and environmental field has been more concerned with definitions (Dees 1996 , 1998a , 1998b , 2003 , Nyssens 2006 , Perrini 2006 , Nicholls and Cho 2006, Mulgan 2007 , Light 2008 ), with the business models developed by social”
Social Entrepreneurship: A Critique and Future Directions (2011, neutral): “…of individuals ignores the social entrepreneurial activities of organizations (NGOs or corporations), collectives (sectoral or crosssectoral partnerships) (e.g., Light 2006), or the distributed nature of social entrepreneurship in teams of diverse stakeholders, as suggested by Spear (2006).”
Mapping the Intellectual Structure of Social Entrepreneurship Research: A Citation/Co-citation Analysis (2019, neutral): “(2003), Spear (2006), Tracey and Jarvis (2007), Tracey and Phillips (2007), Zahra et al.”