Social entrepreneurship, age and gender: toward a model of social involvement in entrepreneurship

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Social entrepreneurship, age and gender: toward a model of social involvement in entrepreneurship
Séverine Le Loarne-Lemaire; Adnan Maalaoui; Léo-Paul Dana
International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Vol. 31, No. 3 (2017) pp. 363 – 381
How and why does an entrepreneur decide to embark in social entrepreneurship and/or in a sustainable business? While the existing literature suggests that social entrepreneurs tend to be females and/or seniors, our findings indicate that these two groups have important differences; based on the analysis of the verbatim of entrepreneurs, our findings reveal that seniors claim to enter social enterprises with a conscious willingness to help society, while female entrepreneurs are less focused on social implication.

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Categories: Entrepreneurship

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