Kerekere and Indigenous Social Entrepreneurship

Defining the ‘Social’ in ‘Social Entrepreneurship’: Altruism and Entrepreneurship

What is social entrepreneurship? In, particular, what’s so social about it? Understanding what social entrepreneurship is enables researchers to study the phenomenon and policy-makers to design measures to encourage it. However, such an understanding is lacking partly because there is no universally accepted definition of entrepreneurship as yet. In this paper, we suggest a definition of social...

Social Networks and Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship, Saving and Social Mobility

This paper examines entrepreneurship in order to analyze, first, the degree to which the opportunity to start or own a business affects the household’s saving behavior and the implication of this behavior for the distribution of wealth and, second, the relationship between the extent of entrepreneurship in the economy and socioeconomic mobility, that is, the movement of families across wealth c...

Indigenous Communities, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development in the New Economy

The 500 million Indigenous Peoples are struggling to rebuild their ‘nations’ and improve their socioeconomic circumstances. Participation in the global economy through entrepreneurship is widely accepted as the key to success. Importantly, most want this participation to be ‘on their own terms—terms in which traditional lands, history, culture and values feature prominently. Using regulation th...

The Social Dimensions of Entrepreneurship

Schumpeter’s canonical depiction of the entrepreneur as an agent of social and economic change implies that entrepreneurs are especially sensitive to the social environment. We use an organizing framework based on institutional economics, in combination with lessons from cross-cultural psychology, to consider the social dimensions of entrepreneurship. The level and modes of entrepreneurial acti...