TY - JOUR A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Seelos, Christian A1 - Borwankar, Anjaney T1 - Social entrepreneurial initiatives within the sustainable development landscape JF - International Journal of Entrepreneurship Education N2 - Over the last few years many business schools have been active in developing courses on social entrepreneurship. The case studies used are typically based on non-profit initiatives aimed at alleviating social problems in the community. Yet social entrepreneurship is not limited in scope and structure. It is neither geographically nor culturally centered. To avoid the dilemma of defining what social entrepreneurship is or what it is not, we argue that the most fruitful approach is to adopt a specific perspective that illuminates the role and the unique contribution of social entrepreneurship. The perspective we propose is 'sustainable development'. This approach also permits the positioning of social entrepreneurship alongside existing organizations that participate in the global efforts to achieve sustainable development. We describe initiatives by social entrepreneurs and established corporations, highlight the social, economic and environmental impact, and draw out commonalities from the examples given. Y1 - 2004 UR - http://www.senatehall.com/entrepreneurship?article=150 SN - 1649-2269 VL - 2 IS - 4 SP - 431 EP - 452 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Seelos, Christian T1 - Sustainable development, sustainable profit JF - European Business Forum N2 - Social entrepreneurship can be a powerful tool for corporations to gain entry and build loyalty in developing markets. While economic growth has led to tremendous improvements in personal freedoms and well-being for people in industrialised societies, it has left too many behind. The images of hunger, disease and human misery refuse to disappear from our television screens. How can growth be made more sustainable while at the same time including and benefiting all of society? The paradox is painful: while traditional markets are saturated, billions of people are desperately waiting for companies to cater to their most basic needs and wants. Social entrepreneurs act as change agents that enable the poor to participate in economic life. Entrepreneurs invent business models that can be scaled up and possibly repeated elsewhere: the Grameen Bank model has been replicated all over the world, with huge success. Social entrepreneurship initiatives also constitute local resources that lend themselves to new configurations for novel forms of value creation. KW - Social responsibility KW - Entrepreneurs KW - Sustainable development KW - Developing countries KW - LDCs KW - Economic development Y1 - 2005 UR - https://search.proquest.com/docview/224672209?accountid=11379 SN - 1469-6460 VL - 20 SP - 49 EP - 53 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Seelos, Christian T1 - Social Entrepreneurship : Creating new business models to serve the poor JF - Business Horizons N2 - The term “social entrepreneurship” (SE) is used to refer to the rapidly growing number of organizations that have created models for efficiently catering to basic human needs that existing markets and institutions have failed to satisfy. Social entrepreneurship combines the resourcefulness of traditional entrepreneurship with a mission to change society. One social entrepreneur, Ibrahim Abouleish, recently received the “Alternative Nobel Prize” for his Sekem initiative; in 2004, e-Bay founder Jeff Skoll donated 4.4 million pounds to set up a social entrepreneurship research center; and many social entrepreneurs have mingled with their business counterparts at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Social entrepreneurship offers insights that may stimulate ideas for more socially acceptable and sustainable business strategies and organizational forms. Because it contributes directly to internationally recognized sustainable development (SD) goals, social entrepreneurship may also encourage established corporations to take on greater social responsibility. KW - Social entrepreneurship KW - Sustainability KW - Business model KW - Corporate social responsibility Y1 - 2005 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bushor.2004.11.006 SN - 0007-6813 VL - 48 IS - 3 SP - 241 EP - 246 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Seelos, Christian ED - Ziegler, Rafeal T1 - Hope for Sustainable Development: How Social Entrepreneurs Make It Happen T2 - An Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship: Voices, Preconditions and Contexts KW - Gemeinwirtschaft KW - Nachhaltige Entwicklung Y1 - 2009 SN - 9781848443068 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4337/9781848446229.00021 SP - 228 EP - 246 PB - Edward Elgar CY - Cheltenham ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Seelos, Christian ED - Rangan, V. Kashturi ED - Quelch, John A. ED - Herrero, Gustavo ED - Barton, Brooke T1 - How social entrepreneurs enable human, social, and economic development T2 - Business Solutions for the Global Poor: Creating Social and Economic Value Y1 - 2007 SN - 978-0-7879-8216-4 SP - 271 EP - 294 PB - Jossey-Bass CY - San Francisco ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Seelos, Christian ED - Perrini, Francesco T1 - The Sekem initiative: a holistic vision to develop people T2 - New Social Entrepreneurship : What awaits social entrepreneurship ventures? Y1 - 2006 SN - 9781845427818 SP - 210 EP - 223 PB - Edward Elgar CY - Cheltenham ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Seelos, Christian A1 - Ganly, Kate ED - Mair, Johanna ED - Robinson, J. ED - Hockerts, K. T1 - Social entrepreneurs directly contribute to global development goals T2 - Social Entrepreneurship Y1 - 2006 SN - 978-1-4039-9664-0 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230625655 SP - 235 EP - 275 PB - Palgrave Macmillan CY - Basingstoke ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Seelos, Christian T1 - When Innovation Goes Wrong JF - Stanford Social Innovation Review N2 - Efforts by social enterprises to develop novel interventions receive a great deal of attention. Yet these organizations often stumble when it comes to turning innovation into impact. As a result, they fail to achieve their full potential. Here’s a guide to diagnosing and preventing several “pathologies” that underlie this failure. Y1 - 2016 UR - https://ssir.org/articles/entry/when_innovation_goes_wrong SN - 1542-7099 VL - 14 IS - 4 SP - 27 EP - 33 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Seelos, Christian T1 - Quand le business devient un outil contre la pauvreté JF - Business Digest, French edition N2 - À l’heure où tout nouveau débouché est un enjeu stratégique de taille, peut-on ignorer à la masse de consommateurs des pays du Sud ? Focus réalisé d’après « Profitable Business Models and Market Creation in the Context of Deep Poverty: A Strategic View », de Christian Seelos et Johanna Mair, Academy of Management Perspectives, novembre 2007, et l’interview d’Iqbal Quadir, fondateur et directeur du Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship (US), février 2009. Y1 - 2009 ET - 193 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mair, Johanna A1 - Seelos, Christian T1 - When business becomes a tool for fighting poverty JF - Business Digest, UK edition N2 - Can we continue to categorically dismiss consumers in Southern countries at a time when companies are struggling to find new markets? Based on « Profitable Business Models and Market Creation in the Context of Deep Poverty: A Strategic View », by Christian Seelos and Johanna Mair, Academy of Management Perspectives, November 2007, and the interviews of Iqbal Quadir, founder and director of the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT (USA), February 2009. Y1 - 2009 ET - 193 ER -