Social Entrepreneurship: A Critique and Future Directions

By M. Dacin, Peter A. Dacin, Paul Tracey. Organ. Sci., 2011

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

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What’s in a Name: An Analysis of Impact Investing Understandings by Academics and Practitioners (2015, background): “Although this lack of definitional, conceptual, and terminological clarity is explainable—since it is also typical for related, nascent research domains such as social entrepreneurship (Dacin et al. 2011; Hoogendoorn et al. 2010; Short et al. 2009) or SRI (Berry and Junkus 2013; Sandberg et al.”
Deconstructing the Way in which Value Is Created in the Context of Social Entrepreneurship (2018, neutral): “…thanks to Professor Nicole Coviello for encouraging us to send the paper to IJMR and for her support and orientation in the process of preparing earlier draft of the paper. goals of SE (Chell 2007) and integrated insights from existing theories to extend SE understanding (Dacin et al. 2011).”
Social entrepreneurship as an essentially contested concept: Opening a new avenue for systematic future research (2014, background): “For instance, Dacin et al. (2010) list different definitions of social entrepreneurship and explain similarities and dissimilarities between the different conceptualizations of the concept. Nicholls (2010) addresses the contested nature of social entrepreneurship in the context of reflexive isomorph”
Innovation and profit motivations for social entrepreneurship: A fuzzy-set analysis (2019, background): “These authors call for more theory-based research on innovativeness among social entrepreneurs, and others have noted the great diversity of social entrepreneurship and called for greater theory development for social entrepreneurship, and/or the integration of social entrepreneurship into a broader”
Toward a theory of business (2015, background): “While Santos’ (2012) ideas are too new to garner criticism, we will see if they satisfy those who wonder just what constitutes social entrepreneurship (Dacin et al., 2012).”
The Social and Economic Mission of Social Enterprises: Dimensions, Measurement, Validation, and Relation (2015, background): “These social entrepreneurs are altruistic in their activities and place social values above profitability (Dacin et al., 2011).”
Social Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa (2015, background): “In particular, there remains disagreement among scholars regarding definitional boundaries and the dimensions along which these enterprises should be identified and analyzed (Dacin et al., 2011; Mair & Martí, 2006; Santos, 2012; Zahra, Gedajlovic, Neubaum, & Shulman, 2009).”
A Positive Theory of Social Entrepreneurship (2012, neutral): “Despite some skepticism about the ability of social entrepreneurs to solve large-scale societal problems (Sud et al. 2009), these developments have sparked a growing academic interest for this new domain (Dacin and Dacin 2011).”
Exploring environmental entrepreneurship: : Identity coupling, venture goals, and stakeholder incentives (2016, background): “Dacin and colleagues (Dacin et al., 2011), have proposed that we should focus on the social consequences of entrepreneurship rather than focusing on social entrepreneurship as a distinct type of entrepreneurial action, or a separate field of research.”
Coworking-spaces: how a phenomenon of the sharing economy builds a novel trend for the workplace and for entrepreneurship (2016, background): “Social entrepreneurship is characterized by entrepreneurs offering non-economical or partly economical solutions with social value (Dacin et al. 2011).”