Social Entrepreneurship: Analytical Approach

Entrepreneurship: An Analytical Thermodynamic Theory

In this paper, we present a newly developed analytical thermodynamic theory and show that it offers a simple understanding of entrepreneurship. The approach we present in the paper is different from previous work on the subject in that we not only borrow the mathematical tools from, and the analogy to thermodynamic but treat economics in general and entrepreneurship in particular as a thermodyn...

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

Nesting Social-Analytical Perspectives: An Approach to Macro-Social Analysis

This article suggests advanced ways of using social-analytical and macro-historical models and perspectives as a powerful means to undertake macro-social analyses and long-range futures thinking based upon them. According to Johan Galtung (1997d), macrohistory is "the study of the histories of social systems, along separate trajectories, in search of patterns", and deals with "vast space, vast ...

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...