market economy. This chapter examines one such example: the growing field of social entrepreneurship. Although it attracts … major interest in management studies, social entrepreneurship has received scant attention from economists. This chapter … resolves this oversight by placing the theory of social entrepreneurship on an economic foundation. It outlines the economic …

The study of entrepreneurship often focuses on the activities of the entrepreneur. While entrepreneurship is undertaken … discussing the institutional factors that encourage entrepreneurship, the ways in which economic models depict the economy are … discussed, pointing toward the different policy conclusions regarding entrepreneurship that emanate from different assumptions …