This study contributes to emerging research on entrepreneurial philanthropy. It explores the philanthropy of owner-managers of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and investigates whether and why more entrepreneurially oriented (EO) SMEs are also more likely to be philanthropic. We find...

We conceptualise social entrepreneurship as a source of social capital which, when present in the environment, enhances commercial entrepreneurship. We also argue that social entrepreneurship should be recognised as a second form of Baumol's (1990) productive entrepreneurship and that it will...