What is it about?
This paper explores the biographical predictors of social entrepreneurship and validates them using a relatively large number of social entrepreneurs. It found that social entrepreneurship can be explained by 8 factors which can be classified into social skills and economic skills. This leads to four types of social entrepreneurs based on their backgrounds: the elite, the social elite, the social grassroots, and the commoner.
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It is the first paper that studies the biographical predictors of social entrepreneurship using a relatively large data set (N=317) and uses a mixed method approach.
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It is useful for future or any would-be social entrepreneurs to see if they have the necessary ingredients to set up social enterprises; it allows investors and funders to know what type of people might be worth investing in as social entrepreneurs.
Dr Yanto Chandra
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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This page is a summary of: Unpacking the Biographical Antecedents of the Emergence of Social Enterprises: A Narrative Perspective, VOLUNTAS International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, March 2017, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s11266-017-9860-2.
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