SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: DEFINITIONS AND BOUNDARIES

François Brouard

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Many concepts, such as social entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurs, social enterprises, social ventures, social economy, are used to describe a field of research that have only recently come into official or common use. However, those terms are emerging, ill defined and often used without any nuance on their specific meaning, probably because it is not a tidy concept so far. Even if “a consensus over the boundaries of social entrepreneurship remains elusive” (Nichols, 2006, p.7), “the need to draw boundaries so as to delimit scope and clarify whether it really is an independent field of research, and the need to identify the different level of analysis, disciplines and literatures” (Mair and Marti, 2006, p.42) should be pursue. This conceptual paper focuses on definitions and boundaries of social entrepreneurship and on positioning social entrepreneurship compare with related concepts. The paper is an attempt to reduce the fuzziness nature of social entrepreneurship on some specific dimensions and to help academics and government officials in mapping the field for policy purpose.

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