9 What’s the Government Got to Do with It? Synergies and Tensions Between Government and Social Enterprise in Driving Social Welfare
Abstract
Social entrepreneurship, understood as a form of entrepreneurship aimed at applying entrepreneurial skills to solve complex social problems, is a new and growing phenomenon. Social entrepreneurship seeks to combine both the efficiency of the private sector with the social welfare goals of the government to solve social problems that elude existing actors. This chapter seeks to review the essential roles of the traditional actors of entrepreneur and government and then examine their relationship to social entrepreneurship. Is government necessary for social entrepreneurship, ...
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