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Similarities and Differences Among Schools of Social Entrepreneurship

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Social entrepreneurship is a phenomenon that has gained strength in recent years. Its rapid positioning has led organizations from different sectors to promote its implementation and development with the intention that it can address the main social and environmental problems facing the world. Given its nature, it shares characteristics like those of any enterprise, among which its practicality stands out, that is, the only way to undertake is to carry out a concrete action that seeks to satisfy a need. This functional characteristic has resulted in the emergence of different perspectives in its implementation, which are related to the economic, social, and institutional context in which these ventures operate. This chapter aims to explain the nature of each of them, as well as their main characteristics, institutional contexts that have pushed and advantages and disadvantages when being carried out by part of social entrepreneurs.

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Portales, L. (2019). Similarities and Differences Among Schools of Social Entrepreneurship. In: Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13456-3_5

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