Social ventures balance the economic and social dimensions of value creation to alleviate the problems created by shared collective issues.While much is known about economic value creation in conventional firms, little empirical work has focused on social ventures. As the number of social...

Social entrepreneurship increasingly garners interest from both the public and academics. Social entrepreneurs have been characterized as being at 'the vanguard (of the) worldwide transformation to improve the quality of life and standard of living around the world,'. Research to understand...