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Ester Barinaga. Photo.

Ester Barinaga

Professor

Ester Barinaga. Photo.

Overcoming inertia: The social question in social entrepreneurship

Author

  • Ester Barinaga

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