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Social Entrepreneurship and Co-operative and Mutual Enterprise

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This chapter provides an overview of the emerging field of social entrepreneurship and innovation, with a specific focus on co-operative enterprise as a distinct business model. While entrepreneurship has been viewed as a process of self-directed, individualistic and profit maximising opportunism, the reality is that many entrepreneurs and innovators are not totally focused on personal wealth creation. Money is just a necessary tool that can be used to purchase assets with which to develop new products or services and deliver value to customers.

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Mazzarol, T., Reboud, S. (2020). Social Entrepreneurship and Co-operative and Mutual Enterprise. In: Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Springer Texts in Business and Economics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9412-6_14

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