During recent decades, the interest of academia and policy-makers in social entrepreneurship has been increasing, due to its impact on social and economic development. The main objective of this chapter is to explore the content and methodology used in social entrepreneurship research focusing...

This paper explores the institutional factors that encourage opportunity entrepreneurship in order to achieve higher rates of economic growth. We suggest that institutions may not have an automatic effect, as is typically assumed in growth models. Rather, a mechanism is required to serve as a...

Chapter One: General Introduction -- Chapter Two: Institutional Antecedents of Entrepreneurship and its Consequences on Economic Growth: A Systematic Literature Analysis -- Chapter Three: Social Progress Orientation and Entrepreneurship -- Chapter Four: The Effect of Entrepreneurial Activity on...