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Title: SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURIALISM AS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICY

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: The overall theme of this dissertation is social entrepreneurship and economic development policy. Empirical studies show strong evidence of the important role entrepreneurship plays in economic development. Recently, social entrepreneurship has emerged as a distinct field of scholarly study with the potential to increase economic development activities. It has the added benefits of increasing social and human capital and of reducing market failure and government failure by assisting underserved and marginalized populations in improving their standards of living. In spite of this potential, entrepreneurship in general has been neglected as part of a comprehensive economic development policy. Social entrepreneurship in particular receives little mention in economic development policy discussions. While lip service is paid to entrepreneurship as part of a regional economic development strategy, most expenditures are dedicated to the zero-sum game of attracting large existing firms into individual regions. Three essays focused on different aspects of social entrepreneurship and economic development. The first essay focuses on defining social entrepreneurship because the current lack of consensus impedes scholarly development and leaves policymakers without a clear direction regarding its incorporation into economic development policy. Corpus linguistic analysis is used as a structured approach to create a definitional framework of social entrepreneurship as a multidimensional continuum. The second essay is a case study with the purpose of developing a framework for measuring the economic impact of the activities of a social enterprise. The essay uses a social accounting matrix (SAM) as the approach to quantify the impact of the case

Url: subject on economic activity, job creation, and income. Both scholars and policymakers could use this framework as a tool to better understand the economic impact of social enterprises and policies supporting them. The third essay examines benefits corpor

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Authors: Staples, Peter

Institution: Clemson University

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Degree: Doctor of Philosophy Policy Studies

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Pages: 237

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

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Countries: United States