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Social Entrepreneurship: A Study on the Source and Discovery of Social Opportunities

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Values and Opportunities in Social Entrepreneurship

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Social entrepreneurship practice has progressed immensely in the last 30 years. Close to 80 million adults (Drucker, 1989) work for nearly 2 million citizen sector organizations of which 70% were established in the last 30 years (Davis, 2002). There has been a 40% increase in their number in the last decade (Johnson, 2000), 5% more than new business formation (Austin et al., 2006). Sensing the need to educate this new wave of social entrepreneurs, programs catering to the education of social entrepreneurs have begun to emerge in major and elite universities such as Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Duke and others.

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  1. Javier Monllor
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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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Monllor, J. (2010). Social Entrepreneurship: A Study on the Source and Discovery of Social Opportunities. In: Hockerts, K., Mair, J., Robinson, J. (eds) Values and Opportunities in Social Entrepreneurship. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230298026_6

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