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Social Entrepreneurship Typologies and Tourism: Conceptual Frameworks

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The chapter examines the ways that social entrepreneurs (SE) and Socially-Entrepreneurial Organizations (SEO) have been categorized. SEs have been categorized in terms of their personal traits and character, their organizational context, their work/leadership style, their motivations and the types of activities they undertake. SEOs have been categorized by the way they balance their social mission with revenue generation, the types of social benefits they provide, funding, and their use of tangible and intangible assets. Each of these typologies can be effectively applied to tourism. While, the terms SE and SEO are relatively new to tourism, they are closely linked to established fields of tourism study. Ecotourism, pro-poor tourism, and community based tourism are all areas of tourism that rely heavily on the work of SEs and SEOs. The new focus on SEs and SEOs provides new perspectives for the study of tourism. The chapter concludes by suggesting a number of typologies for tourism-related SE and SEO studies.

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    Jonathon Day

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Day, J., Mody, M. (2017). Social Entrepreneurship Typologies and Tourism: Conceptual Frameworks. 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_4

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