What Is Social Entrepreneurship Really About?

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Small Business
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Entrepreneurship,
London School Of Economics,
Management
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London School of Economics and Political Science

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Overview: Social entrepreneurship is a growth area, both in practice and in academic circles. Its value is generally assumed to be the contribution that social entrepreneurs can make to solving pressing and intractable social problems. It is argued here that this is an overly deterministic and simplistic way of understanding the value and meaning of social entrepreneurship. Instead, it is suggested that greater insight can be gained through a discursive approach. Discourse analysis locates social entrepreneurship within broader trends and struggles taking place within society, and helps to ascertain its particular contemporary significance.

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Format: PDF | Size: 18KB | Date: Nov 2006 | Pages: 3

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