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Wiley InterScience

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

Volume 30 Issue 1, Pages 1 - 22

Published Online: 5 Jan 2006

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Social and Commercial Entrepreneurship: Same, Different, or Both?
James Austin 1 , Howard Stevenson 1 and Jane Wei-Skillern 1
  1 Harvard Business School, Soldiers Field Road, Boston
Correspondence to  Jim Austin, tel.: 617–495–6497, e-mail: jaustin@hbs.edu, to Howard Stevenson, tel.: 617–495–6339, e-mail: hstevenson@hbs.edu, and to Jane Wei-Skillern, tel.: 617–495–6190, e-mail: jweiskillern@hbs.edu, at Harvard Business School, Soldiers Field Road, Boston, MA 02163

 All of the authors contributed equally to this research; authors' names are listed alphabetically.

Copyright 2006 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

ABSTRACT

Entrepreneurship has been the engine propelling much of the growth of the business sector as well as a driving force behind the rapid expansion of the social sector. This article offers a comparative analysis of commercial and social entrepreneurship using a prevailing analytical model from commercial entrepreneurship. The analysis highlights key similarities and differences between these two forms of entrepreneurship and presents a framework on how to approach the social entrepreneurial process more systematically and effectively. We explore the implications of this analysis of social entrepreneurship for both practitioners and researchers.


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10.1111/j.1540-6520.2006.00107.x About DOI

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