Defining the ‘Social’ in ‘Social Entrepreneurship’: Altruism and Entrepreneurship

By W. Tan, J. Williams, T. Tan. 2005

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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The Scientometrics of Social Entrepreneurship and Its Establishment as an Academic Field1 (2018, background): “In the social entrepreneurship literature, it is suggested to use an approach based on a continuum to discriminate social and commercial entrepreneurship (for instance, Austin, Stevenson, and Wei-Skillern 2006; Dees and Elias 1998; Massetti 2008; Tan, Williams, and Tan 2005).”
Social Entrepreneurship: A Critique and Future Directions (2011, neutral): “A related assumption is that social entrepreneurs are largely altruistic in their activities (Roberts and Woods 2005, Tan et al. 2005).”
The Effect of Personality Traits on Social Entrepreneurship Intentions: A Field Research☆ (2015, background): “According to Tan et al. (2005) social entrepreneurship is sharing the whole or part of the risk taken by an innovative entrepreneurship and the profit obtained as a result of such risk with the social group that is actively participating to the entrepreneurship.”
The relationship between the entrepreneurial personality and the Big Five personality traits (2014, background): “…please contact the GRO team: gro@gold.ac.uk *Title page with author details The Relationship between the Entrepreneurial Personality and the Big Five Personality Traits Franziska Leutner a Gorkan Ahmetoglu b Reece Akhtar a Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic a a Department of Psychology, UCL, London,…”
Beyond the Moral Portrayal of Social Entrepreneurs: An Empirical Approach to Who They Are and What Drives Them (2016, background): “As a consequence, ‘social’ tends to refer to a desire to benefit society in some way without a top-down a priori perspective or normative restrictions (Cho 2006; Tan et al. 2005).”
Social entrepreneurship as an essentially contested concept: Opening a new avenue for systematic future research (2014, background): “The concept of social value creation is a value laden concept and involves “virtuous behaviour” (Mort et al., 2003: 82), altruistic objectives (Tan et al., 2005), and the promotion of a social purpose, which further implies values like freedom, equality, and tolerance (Murphy and Coombes, 2009:…”
Social Entrepreneurship: Why We Don't Need a New Theory and How We Move Forward From Here (2010, background): “Tan, Williams, & Tan (2005) A legal person is a social entrepreneur from t1 to t2 just in case that person attempts from t1 to t2, to make proﬁts for society or a segment of it by innovation in the face of risk, in a way that involves that society or segment of it.”
Entrepreneurship, process innovation and value creation by a non‐profit SME (2011, background): “Social entrepreneurship that corresponds to what is accepted as entrepreneurship and that captures the way where entrepreneurship may be altruistic ( Tan et al. , 2005”
Social entrepreneurship education in higher education: insights from a developing country (2013, background): “Similarly, Seelos and Mair (2005) refer to the basic human needs that exist in the market, and Tan et al. (2005) call them risk takers who make profit for their society.”