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Social entrepreneurship as a family resemblance concept with distinct ethical views
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Almost 25 years after Dees’ article on the meaning of social entrepreneurship, conceptual controversy persists. Based on a qualitative analysis of 209 definitions of social entrepreneurship and respective academic articles, we argue that the concept follows a family resemblance structure and identify the 12 distinct attributes that comprehensively define it. Membership in social entrepreneurship is not defined by a case possessing a universally accepted set of criterial features but by carrying shared attributes with other cases. The family resemblance structure points to the persistent fallacy of using the same term to label different phenomena and cautions researchers against causal homogeneity assumptions among different conceptual subtypes. Assuming a descriptive stance, we shed light on how distinct ethical positions relate to different definitions of social entrepreneurship. Among the existing conceptual variety, we identify four prominent subtypes and find that ‘market-based’ conceptualizations relate to economism, the ‘social business’ subtype relates to rule utilitarian positions, ‘efficiency-driven’ definitions are associated with hedonistic act utilitarian views, and the ‘transformational impact’ subtype is akin to a eudemonic act utilitarian stance.
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Funding Information: This work was funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (UID/ECO/00124/2013 and Social Sciences DataLab, Project 22209), by POR Lisboa (LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-007722 and Social Sciences DataLab, Project 22209) and POR Norte (Social Sciences DataLab, Project 22209). Doctoral Grant from Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia to the first author (SFRH/BD/109916/2015). We would like to thank the authors of the paper ‘Organized chaos: mapping the definitions of social entrepreneurship,’ particularly Inés Alegre, for providing their list of social entrepreneurship definitions. Finally, we wish to thank all scholars who provided very relevant comments to this article, namely Johanna Mair, Miguel Pina e Cunha, George Balabanis, and Stewart Clegg, and the anonymous reviewers of the Journal of Business Ethics. Publisher Copyright: © 2023, The Author(s).
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Business ethics Conceptualization Family resemblance Social enterprise Social entrepreneurship Business and International Management General Business,Management and Accounting Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Economics and Econometrics Law SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth