Social Entrepreneurship: A Critique and Future Directions

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Dacin, M. Tina; Dacin, Peter A.; Tracey, Paul
• 署名单位: Queens University - Canada; University of Cambridge
• 刊物名称: ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1047-7039
• DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1100.0620
• 发表日期: 2011
• 页码: 1203-1213
• 关键词: social entrepreneurship; INSTITUTIONAL THEORY; organization and management theory; social network approach; entrepreneurship

摘要

Work on social entrepreneurship constitutes a field of study that intersects a number of domains, including entrepreneurial studies, social innovation, and nonprofit management. Scholars are beginning to contribute to the development of this new discipline through efforts that attempt to trace the emergence of social entrepreneurship as well as by comparing it to other organizational activities such as conventional entrepreneurship. However, as a nascent field, social entrepreneurship scholars are in the midst of a number of debates involving definitional and conceptual clarity, boundaries of the field, and a struggle to arrive at a set of relevant and meaningful research questions. This paper examines the promise of social entrepreneurship as a domain of inquiry and suggests a number of research areas and research questions for future study.