Historically there has been great focus on the performance of nonprofits versusfor-profit entities. The literature has included research on variances in salaries,operational efficiencies, pricing, market penetration, composition of clientele, etc.However, there is a new category of entity that...

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are a universal call for action to protect the planet, end poverty and inequality in the world. Government and philanthropy resources are not sufficient to achieve these goals and financial resources from capital markets must be directed to...

Purpose: In the last decades, practitioners, including governments, have been interested in social enterprises (SEs) as a new sector, called the 'fourth sector,' because of their social goals through commercial activities. Although many countries are supporting SEs because of their high...

Purpose The study aims to test the applicability of a variant of the model proposed by Hockerts (2017) for assessing the social entrepreneurial intention (SEI) of male and female students. It extends the model by incorporating the university's environment and support system (ESS) as an...

The last decade has seen a growing interest in the measurement of the impact and performance of social and solidarity economy (SSE) organizations. This has been fuelled, among other things, by the rapid growth of the importance given to social enterprise, social entrepreneurship and impact...

This paper examines the implications of the argument that sustainable businesses should see profit as a means, not an end. It develops a heuristic conceptual framework that identifies two main ways in which a business can treat profit as an end: first, through voluntary objectives; and secondly,...

Cross-sector social collaborations are increasingly recognised as valuable inter-organizational arrangements that seek to combine the commercial capabilities of private sector companies with the deep knowledge of social and environmental issues enrooted in social sector organizations. In this...

Social entrepreneurship is not just an objective description of a phenomenon; it also carries a positive normative connotation. However, the academic discourse barely reflects social entrepreneurship’s inherent normativity and often grounds it implicitly on the mission of a social enterprise....

Social enterprises utilize entrepreneurial activities to generate revenue and build sustainable business models for social impact. Because of their resource constraints, especially finance, social enterprises are forced to reach out to external funders. Although there are obvious benefits, the...