This paper analyzes how social investors evaluate the integrity of social entrepreneurs. Based on an experiment with 40 professionals and 40 students, we investigate how five attributes of the entrepreneur contribute to the assessment of integrity. These attributes are the entrepreneur's...

This paper analyzes how social entrepreneurs evaluate social investors. Based on an experiment with 40 social entrepreneurs, we investigate how five attributes contribute to assessing the attractiveness of potential investors. The attributes cover supportive as well as oversight activities of...

The Mercator Research Network Zeppelin University – TU Munich – CSI Heidelberg analyzes the organization, communication, legitimacy and governance of social entrepreneurs. The underlying definition uses fourteen criteria to characterize social entrepreneurship and tries to differentiate...

The concept of social entrepreneurship is attracting a lot of attention from the business- and research field. Social enterprises are positioned in between traditional charities and for-profit corporations.The article "Social Entrepreneurship - An Overview" introduces relevant terms and...