TY - UNPB

T1 - Who Are The Social "Entrepreneurs" and What Do They Actually Do?

AU - Steinerowski, A

AU - Jack, S L

AU - Farmer, J

PY - 2010

Y1 - 2010

N2 - There is increasing interest in the social entrepreneur and the process of social entrepreneurship. This has led to criticisms of fuzziness surrounding these concepts. This paper explores the concept of the social entrepreneur, considering whether social entrepreneurs can really be termed "entrepreneurs" or if they are something else - individuals motivated by meeting social objectives to achieve social change. Drawing on structuration theory, we place the agent (a social entrepreneur) in the structure (a social system/the context), arguing that they are engaged in a process of co-constructing the current momentum in social entrepreneurship development.

AB - There is increasing interest in the social entrepreneur and the process of social entrepreneurship. This has led to criticisms of fuzziness surrounding these concepts. This paper explores the concept of the social entrepreneur, considering whether social entrepreneurs can really be termed "entrepreneurs" or if they are something else - individuals motivated by meeting social objectives to achieve social change. Drawing on structuration theory, we place the agent (a social entrepreneur) in the structure (a social system/the context), arguing that they are engaged in a process of co-constructing the current momentum in social entrepreneurship development.

KW - social entrepreneur

KW - social entrepreneurship

KW - rural

KW - structuration

M3 - Working paper

T3 - Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development Working Paper Series

BT - Who Are The Social "Entrepreneurs" and What Do They Actually Do?

PB - Institute for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development

CY - Lancaster University

ER -