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Social entrepreneur study

  • 1.  Social entrepreneur study

    Posted 10-29-2007 19:05
    Hello,
    I'm a PhD student at the University of Minnesota working on compiling
    a database of social entrepreneurs and would really appreciate any
    help that you may be able to give.

    Currently there are multiple definitions of social entrepreneurs used
    by researchers and practitioners and I'm hoping that some effort at a
    synthesis of the current state of knowledge of social entrepreneurship
    will be a first step to future replicable empirical work. I have
    included descriptions and simplified case sketches of social
    entrepreneurs given in books and articles, as well major websites
    supporting social entrepreneurship (Ashoka, Schwab Foundation, and BiD
    Network).

    However, I would like to include information on specific social
    entrepreneurs that other researchers have studied, but which has not
    been reported in these other locations. While I will need all
    relevant details, I am interested in contacting the social
    entrepreneurs, so contact information of the social entrepreneurs
    would be most appreciated. Also, while I would include many founders
    of non-profits as social entrepreneurs, I am most interested in those
    entrepreneurs that are seeking to solve a social problem through a
    non-profit model. I am willing to share the results of this search as
    well.
    Thanks for your time,

    --
    Hans Rawhouser
    Carlson School of Management

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