Altruism and Entrepreneurship: Partners in Social Entrepreneurship

Author

Wee Liang TAN, Singapore Management UniversityFollow
John N. WILLIAMS, Singapore Management UniversityFollow
Teck Meng TAN, Singapore Management UniversityFollow

Publication Type

Magazine Article

Publication Date

7-2006

Abstract

Social entrepreneurship has recently captured the imagination of researchers and policy-makers. It promises an altruistic form of capitalism that connects enterprise with benevolence. Unfortunately there is no generally accepted definition of it, partly because there is no consensus on the definition of entrepreneurship either. Without a definition of social entrepreneurship it is impossible to research or develop policy measures for it. We propose a plausible definition that captures the way in which it may be altruistic and provide taxonomy of forms of it illustrated by Asian cases.

Discipline

Asian Studies | Work, Economy and Organizations

Research Areas

Humanities

Publication

Resource

Issue

3

First Page

8

Last Page

11

Citation

TAN, Wee Liang; WILLIAMS, John N.; and TAN, Teck Meng, "Altruism and Entrepreneurship: Partners in Social Entrepreneurship" (2006). Research Collection School of Social Sciences. Paper 949.
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/949

Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/949