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Theorizing Social Entrepreneurship Within Tourism Studies

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Social Entrepreneurship and Tourism

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This chapter commences with a discussion of the term entrepreneurship as conceptualized by key economists, Schumpeter, von Mises, and Kirzner. Various fundamental theoretical linkages between the terms entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship are presented. Discussions related to the types of institutional sectors that encompass social entrepreneurship are discussed, namely, for profit, non profit, and public sector. The applicability of social entrepreneurship to the field of tourism is extensively discussed, particularly relating to sustainable tourism and other forms of tourism that attempt to respond the Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations. The chapter presents an example of a tourism-related Native American owned social enterprise, DinéHozhó L3C, which was devised by the Navajo Tribe of Arizona, USA. The chapter ends with a presentation of four important research avenues that can contribute to further theorizations of social entrepreneurship and tourism. It is argued that further research into social enterprises related to various tourism sectors will be useful in amassing evidence for best practices within the field as augmenting theoretical bodies of knowledge. It is important for such scholastic endeavors to go beyond idealizing examples of social entrepreneurship in order to critically examine the sustainability (social, cultural, economic, political, and environmental) of such initiatives.

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    In 1966, Commissioner of Indian Affairs Robert Bennett, imposed a land freeze by stopping all development in western Navajo reservation in Arizona. A land dispute between the Navajo Nation and Hopi Tribe covering some 1.6 million acres. The imposed development ban affected both tribes, but it severely devastated the Navajos more due to the larger population and larger land base. The land freeze resulted from competition for control of the resources—water and coal—needed to generate power for burgeoning southern California and Arizona. In this competition the coal and power-generating giants and the federal agencies had an advantage over both Navajo and Hopi tribal government, an advantage that was maintained by the division between the two tribes. On a more careful analysis, this divide-and-rule pattern imposed by the federal government goes back to 1930s, when the Bureau of Indian Affairs established the Hopi tribal government that recognized an exclusive use area in the middle of the much larger 1882 Executive Order reservation on and around Black Mesa for the Navajos.

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  1. School of Community Resources and Development, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA

    Christine Buzinde, Gordon Shockley & Kathleen Andereck

  2. School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

    Edward Dee

  3. Department of Economics, Wingate University, Wingate, NC, USA

    Peter Frank

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    Pauline J. Sheldon

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    Roberto Daniele

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Buzinde, C., Shockley, G., Andereck, K., Dee, E., Frank, P. (2017). Theorizing Social Entrepreneurship Within Tourism Studies. In: Sheldon, P., Daniele, R. (eds) Social Entrepreneurship and Tourism. Tourism on the Verge. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46518-0_2

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