Social Entrepreneurship: A Critique and Future Directions
M. Tina Dacin, Peter A. Dacin, Paul Tracey
Organization Science · 2011 · Volume 22 · Issue 5
Abstract
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.
Keywords
social entrepreneurship, institutional theory, organization and management theory, social network approach, entrepreneurship
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