Definitions of Social Entrepreneurship
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UK Government The
business which
reinvesting its surpluses for both community and its self,
instead of maximizing profit for shareholders.
Legal statement
Alex Nicholls 2006. Social entrepreneurship: new models
of sustainable social change, Oxford University Press
SE is the intersection between not-for-profit management and
commercial entrepreneurship. Driven by a new breed of
pragmatic, innovative, and visionary social activists and
their networks, social entrepreneurship borrows from
an eclectic mix of business, charity, and social movement
models to reconfigure solutions to community
problems and deliver sustainable new social value.
The core reviewer at EMES Community
Zahra, S.A., Gedajlovic, E., Neubaum, D.O., Shulman,
J.M. 2009. “A typology of social entrepreneurs: Motives,
search processes and ethical challenges”. Journal of
Business Venturing 24, 519 –
532 A business model with aim of
addressing social problems, which used to be the major
activities of business, governmental and non-
governmental organizations NGOs.
This captures the motivation and personality of those
individuals who engage these social ventures.
Fagerberg, J., Fosaasa, M., Bellb, M., Martin, B.R.,
2011. “Christopher Freeman: social scien
ce entrepreneur”, Research Policy 40 2011
897 –916
The enterprises are associated with the activities to promote
participative decision among stakeholders to meet the
general interest. Literature in the European
context
Jacques Defourny, Shin-Yang Kim, 2011,Emerging
models of social enterprise in Eastern Asia: a cross-country
analysis, Social Enterprise Journal, Vol. 7 Iss: 1 pp. 86
– 111
The EMES European social enterprise model underlines a
participatory dynamics in the governance structure, the
Eastern Asia model highly rely on the cooperative or multi-
stakeholder ownership. Exploring the East Asia
context
Borzaga, C. Depedri, S and E. Tortia 2010, The growth of
Organizational Variety in Market Economies: The case
of Social Enterprises, Euricse Working Papers, N. 003 | 10
SE model deliveries quasi- public goods, which springs
from non-profit organizations with decentralization and
advanced welfare system. European context
Chan et al 2009. Similarities and divergences: comparison
of social enterprises in Hong Kong and Taiwan, Social
Social enterprises in Hong Kong have a more
entrepreneurial orientation and are more market driven than
East Asia context
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Enterprise Journal Vol. 7 No. 1, 2011 pp. 33-49
their Taiwanese counterparts. By contrast, due to the
development of civil society, community development
social enterprises are more popular in Taiwan than in
Hong Kong.
Spear, R. 2006. “Social Entrepreneurship: a different
model?”, International Journal of Social Economics 33, No
56. pp 399-410 The collective nature of social
entrepreneurship is very prominent in co-operative.
Conceptual paper
Kai Hockerts 2010. Social Entrepreneurship Between
Market and Mission, International Review of
Entrepreneurship 82: 177- 198.
There are three social ventures, i.e. emulating market
players, turning to developmental mission with
grants and charity, and innovation at the tension
between market and social goal.
Conceptual paper