Social Intra/Entrepreneurship in Fighting Poverty Context
A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2021) | Viewed by 450
Special Issue Editor
Interests: social innovation, social entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship; social marketing and societal sustainability; regional and city marketing; children at risk and social response management; school management
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Dear Colleagues,
Social entrepreneurship aims at increasing social welfare and providing goods and services that are not well provided by either the market nor the state (Liebman, 2013; Weisbrod, 1988). It is possible to systematize a path between four levels toward social entrepreneurship (Carvalho, 2016): (1) there are social and human needs; (2) many of them will elicit a response through the creation of a product (good, service, experience, information, idea) with success in the market or society; (3) some of these products are social innovations implemented by social intra/entrepreneurs; and (4) some will give rise to the creation of a new organization – social entrepreneurship.
However, the motivation for social entrepreneurship can also exist within profitable organizations both through a corporate social responsibility strategy or as social intrapreneurship.
Beyond the so-called third sector or social sector, represented by nonprofit organizations, exists a hybrid sector (fourth sector) composed of organizations (social enterprises) and business models intersecting the other sectors (Austin, Stevenson, & Wei-Skillern, 2006; Michelini, 2012) and seeking to address social problems through business ventures (Battilana & Lee, 2014).
All these types of organizations and business models seek to respond to societal problems, whether economic, ecological, social, or psychological (Carvalho, 2018), in order to achieve societal sustainability.
We think that it is worth bringing together the most recent investigation in this area in a Special Issue of Social Sciences.
Thus, we make this call for papers in order to answer the following general questions:
- In each country, what is the real impact of social intra/entrepreneurship on the mitigation and/or eradication of societal problems?
- What are the most recent social innovations implemented by social intra/entrepreneurship?
- Which business models have been more successful in social intra/entrepreneurship, both in their societal impact and their ability to raise funds?
- Which domains of societal life (economic, social, ecological, and psychological) have been most targeted by social intra/entrepreneurs?
- What new types of corporate social responsibility have been more successful in for-profit organizations?
References:
Austin, J., Stevenson, H., & Wei-Skillern, J. (2006). Social and Commercial Entrepreneurship: Same, Different or Both? Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 30(1): 1–22.
doi:10.1111/j.1540-6520.2006.00107.x
Battilana, J., & Lee, M. (2014). Advancing research on hybrid organizing – Insights from the study of social enterprises. The Academy of Management Annals, 8(1), 397–441.
Carvalho, J. M. S. (2016). Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship: The Case of Porto Region. In L. C. Carvalho (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurial Success and its Impact on Regional Development, 2 volumes (chap. 23, pp. 539-573). Hershey, USA, IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-9567-2.ch023
Carvalho, J. M. S. (2018). Social Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Sustainability. In L. C. Carvalho (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Social Dynamics in a Globalized World (chap. 07, pp. 147-180). Hershey, USA, IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-3525-6.ch007
Liebman, J. B. (2013). Advancing Evidence-Based Policymaking to Solve Social Problems. Issues in Science and Technology, 30(1), 47-55.
Michelini, L. (2012). Social Innovation and New Business Models – Creating Shared Value in Low-Income Markets. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-32150-4
Weisbrod, B. A. (1988). The Nonprofit Economy. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
Dr. João Manuel da Silva Carvalho
Guest Editor
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