Haq, Shoaib Ul ORCID: 0000-0002-8899-290X and Abdullah, Muhammad (2024) Disentangling social entrepreneurship as an agent of social change. In: Baikady, Rajendra, Nadesan, Varoshini, Przeperski, Jaroslaw, Islam, M. Rezaul, Sajid, S. M. and Jianguo, Gao, (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan - Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 1-16. ISBN 978-3030876241 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87624-1_63-1)

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Abstract

Social entrepreneurship is a field that continues to evolve while gaining popularity. Our review of the literature shows that it is an essentially contested concept as there is a lack of agreement among researchers on how to define or conceptualize it. Despite these disagreements there is an overall positive bias in the literature depicting social entrepreneurship as a panacea which can solve societal grand challenges such as wealth inequality, job precarity, food insecurity, climate change, etc. through the market mechanism. However, some critical studies on this topic highlight the dominant market logic and the instrumental use of social ventures to advance neoliberal capitalism. We propose to disentangle social entrepreneurship from its economic roots and suggest engagement with indigenous social entrepreneurship based on local traditions and history of a place as a possible solution to the structural problems faced by the field.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	social entrepreneurship; neoliberal capitalism; decolonial theory; Islamic alternative; indigenous entrepreneurship
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Greenwich Business School Greenwich Business School > Networks and Urban Systems Centre (NUSC) Greenwich Business School > School of Business, Operations and Strategy
Last Modified:	20 Sep 2024 10:24
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/48003

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