This study extends our understanding of the ways in which social entrepreneurs give sense to and legitimize their work by introducing a rhetoric-orientation view (ROV) of social entrepreneurship (SE). It uses computer-aided text analysis and computational linguistics to study 191 interviews of...

Despite the burgeoning research on social entrepreneurship (SE), SE strategies remain poorly understood. Drawing on extant research on the social activism and social change, empowerment and SE models, we explore, classify and validate the strategies used by 2,334 social entrepreneurs affiliated...

Building on the ‘entrepreneuring as emancipation' perspective, I explore the emancipatory potential of social entrepreneurship as a means to disengage individuals enthralled to ideology and trapped by their own past behavior. I studied two former religious-based terrorists from Indonesia, and...