Corporate social entrepreneurship

A Corporate Social Entrepreneur (CSE) is someone who attempts to advance a social agenda in addition to a formal job role as part of a corporation. It is possible for CSEs to work in organizational contexts that are favourable to corporate social responsibility but this is not always the case. CSEs focus on developing both social capital and economic capital, and their formal job role may not always align with corporate social responsibility. Furthermore, a person in a non-executive or managerial position can still be considered a CSE. Relevance CSE is a multi-disciplinary scientifical sub-field, relating to the fields of corporate social responsibility and sustainability. It has relevance in the context of business and management, specifically in areas such as business ethics, sustainability, organizational behavior, entrepreneurship, human resource management and business strategy. The concept has intersections with sociology, anthropology and soci

Social Entrepreneurship

James David Thompson

In this dissertation I examine the emergent phenomenon of social entrepreneurship through the lens of the structure of entrepreneurial payoffs under conditions of near-Knightian uncertainty. Current theory assumes entrepreneurs will respond to a new form of incentive, beyond the pursuits of wealth, power, and prestige. It also assumes that productive entrepreneurship can result from a shift in the structure of payoffs. I examine four for-profit social entrepreneurial experiments executed in Southern Africa in order to enhance understanding of the question: "What recurring challenges do for-profit social entrepreneurs face in attempting to restructure payoffs under conditions of near-Knightian uncertainty?" My data are drawn from field observations, company archival records, email communications, and unique targeted interventions designed to solve vexing challenges which arose in the course of the experiments. The dissertation makes several contributions. First, it uncovers several new insights from my findings which should inform future research in for-profit social enterprises. Second, it sheds light on enterprise creation under conditions of near-Knightian uncertainty. Third, it introduces a framework for understanding the challenges faced by nonsingular objective firms, and proposes that lack of success in the creation of such firms is not necessarily failure – there are multiple levels of success that are part of an Aspirations Cascade, the highest efficiency being delivered by the social impact enterprise and the lowest efficiency achieved from direct charity.

EPFL2012

Entrepreneurial advice sources and their antecedents Venture stage, innovativeness and internationalization

Bettina Lynda Bastian, Christopher Tucci

Purpose - Entrepreneurs interact with others and, through this, benefit from access to knowledge, resources and skills that enhance their own entrepreneurial and organizational capabilities. This paper aims to contribute to the literature interested in identifying and analyzing important antecedents of entrepreneurs' choices regarding social relations. The study shows how the venture stage, innovativeness and internationalization of the firm potentially influence entrepreneurial choices regarding their social sources of advice. Design/methodology/approach - The analysis is based on cross-sectional survey data for the years 2009 and 2010, involving 13 Middle East and North African (MENA) countries. Respondents include future prospective entrepreneurs, start-ups and owner-managers of operating businesses, a total of 13,251 respondents across all countries for the entire period. Findings - Entrepreneurs with innovative ventures draw more on advice sources that are able to give information useful for the commercialization of innovative products, and entrepreneurs of internationally exposed ventures rely on a broad base of advice sources that can connect them with a foreign market. However, the outcomes regarding the impact of "different venture stages" point to social interaction patterns that are strongly influenced by local culture and that do not support the assumption of universal entrepreneurship behavior. This study shows that social interactions decline in quantity the more as the venture progresses in age. However, the type of social interaction (e.g. private or professional sources) that entrepreneurs engage throughout the different venture stages remains essentially the same and does not change across different entrepreneurial phases. In the MENA sample, private relations remain the most important source of advice throughout all phases, and they are not replaced by other contacts. Research limitations/implications - Limitations of this paper refer to the use of a large-scale database that cannot address certain issues without more direct observation, such as the quality of different social relations. Future research could address this issue by offering more fine-grained items for the different advice sources. Originality/value - The paper contributes to the debate on whether entrepreneurship is universal in nature. It focuses on data from emerging and developing countries in the Arab world, which is has not been studied very much in the entrepreneurship literature.

Emerald Group Publishing Ltd2017

Entrepreneurial advice sources and their antecedents Venture stage, innovativeness and internationalization

Bettina Lynda Bastian, Christopher Tucci

Emerald Group Publishing Ltd2017

Corporate social entrepreneurship

Painting with All the Colors: The Value of Social Identity Theory for Understanding Social Entrepreneurship

Social Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial advice sources and their antecedents Venture stage, innovativeness and internationalization

Painting with All the Colors: The Value of Social Identity Theory for Understanding Social Entrepreneurship

Social Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial advice sources and their antecedents Venture stage, innovativeness and internationalization