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Social Entrepreneurship: Snapshots of a Research Field in Emergence

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Social entrepreneurship is a term used to describe innovative approaches to address social problems. Over the past ten years, the subject has gained increasing interest on the lecture circuits of public administration and business schools. As Paul Light, a professor of public administration wryly stated, ‘There appears to be plenty of evidence that social entrepreneurship exists, particularly when measured by the rapidly increasing number of conferences, case studies, and funders interested in the topic’ (Light, 2005: 1).

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  1. Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

    Kai Hockerts (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

  2. Department of General Management, IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra, Spain

    Johanna Mair (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

  3. Rutgers Business School, New Jersey, USA

    Jeffrey Robinson (Assistant Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship) (Assistant Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship)

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Desa, G. (2010). Social Entrepreneurship: Snapshots of a Research Field in Emergence. In: Hockerts, K., Mair, J., Robinson, J. (eds) Values and Opportunities in Social Entrepreneurship. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230298026_2

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