Managing for Responsibility

CHAPTER 16

Creating Value for Society—The Role of Social Entrepreneurship

Andreas Pinkwart

Introduction

In the wake of the introduction and global dissemination of entrepreneurship as a scientific subdiscipline, the term of social entrepreneurship has, in the last three decades, quickly spread to all parts of the world. Since the early contributions (Dees 1998; Drayton 2002; Bornstein 2004; Mair and Martí 2006), many papers on the definition and differentiation of the term and the systematic analysis and structuring of the various manifestations thereof have been published (Certo and Miller 2008; Zahra et al. 2009; Huybrechts and Nicholls 2012). Obviously, such developments emerge as clearly identifiable socio-technological changes, as is evident ...