Ester Barinaga
Professor
Overcoming inertia: The social question in social entrepreneurship
Author
Editor
- Daniel Hjorth
Summary, in English
The literature on social entrepreneurship continues to grow. This research is novel and vibrant, yet erratic and fragmented. In this chapter I first organize the burgeoning social-entrepreneurship literature into two streams: one conceptual stream concerned with defining social entrepreneurship; a second management- oriented stream concerned with the establishment and development of social ventures. Within the management-oriented research stream, three units of analysis can be further distinguished: the invidivudal, the organizational, and the inter- organizational levels. This organization of the literature highlights the need to develop a social approach to the study of the methods, strategies and notions used by social entrepreneurial initiatives in their work towards social change. Next, the essay takes a first step in this direction, suggesting a matrix for analysing the congruency between the social change aimed at by social entrepreneurial initiatives and the methods they use to ignite it.
Publishing year
2012
Language
English
Pages
242-256
Publication/Series
Handbook on Organizational Entrepreneurship
Document type
Book chapter
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 978-1-78195-165-1