Purpose – To study the nature of social entrepreneurship from the viewpoint of activities associated with the perception of opportunities to create social value and the creation of social purpose organizations to pursue them. Design/methodology/approach – The ways in which social enterprises...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to review the importance of theory in social enterprise research. Design/methodology/approach – The article presents and relates previous work on theory borrowing, theory extension and theory generation to social enterprise research. Findings –...