Social entrepreneurship as sustainability agency
Lehtimäki, Hanna
Social entrepreneurship as sustainability agency - Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK and Northampton MA, USA Edward Elgar Publishing 20210716 - 1 electronic resource (12 p.)
Open Access
In this review, we develop the idea of social entrepreneurship as sustainability agency. We review literature on social entrepreneurship and examine what it means as a contested concept and hybrid logic, how it implicates the sustainability space, and how that makes the social entrepreneur a change agent in sustainable economy. As a result, we articulate social entrepreneurship as a sustainability agency where the social entrepreneurs balance not only the hybrid organizing of social and economic value creation, but also the creation of environmental value so as to become sustainable enterprises. In this way, they transform themselves as well as the very context in which they are embedded. The purpose of our review is to open the past and present research on what role social entrepreneurship plays in sustainability agency, and what that offers in terms of future research directions.
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English
9781789906035.00017 9781789906028 9781789906035
10.4337/9781789906035.00017 doi
RNU
KJG
KJR
GBC
Social entrepreneurs social entrepreneurship sustainability agency hybrid organization triple-bottom-line
Social entrepreneurship as sustainability agency - Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK and Northampton MA, USA Edward Elgar Publishing 20210716 - 1 electronic resource (12 p.)
Open Access
In this review, we develop the idea of social entrepreneurship as sustainability agency. We review literature on social entrepreneurship and examine what it means as a contested concept and hybrid logic, how it implicates the sustainability space, and how that makes the social entrepreneur a change agent in sustainable economy. As a result, we articulate social entrepreneurship as a sustainability agency where the social entrepreneurs balance not only the hybrid organizing of social and economic value creation, but also the creation of environmental value so as to become sustainable enterprises. In this way, they transform themselves as well as the very context in which they are embedded. The purpose of our review is to open the past and present research on what role social entrepreneurship plays in sustainability agency, and what that offers in terms of future research directions.
Creative Commons
English
9781789906035.00017 9781789906028 9781789906035
10.4337/9781789906035.00017 doi
RNU
KJG
KJR
GBC
Social entrepreneurs social entrepreneurship sustainability agency hybrid organization triple-bottom-line