Patterns of Development: I Am He, As You Are He, As You Are Me, And We Are All Together
With hindsight, it is now possible to map out the development of modern social entrepreneurship scholarship in three phases (pioneers, consolidators, new arrivals) across three dimensions (institutions, publications, conferences: see Table 1). The pioneers began working in the 1990s and focused on practical analysis linked to case studies, applied teaching and practitioner-facing events and publications, and close involvement in policy development. The consolidators followed a decade or so later and institutionalized the study and research of social entrepreneurship in new college and university centers and programs (particularly in business schools), edited collections and new journals, and specialist academic conferences.
Finally, the new arrivals represented the mainstreaming of social entrepreneurship research and teaching into traditional disciplines and established academic structures (for example, in the UK, publicly funded research underwritten by the ESRC). This phase included special editions on social entrepreneurship in top-ranked journals and streams of papers on social entrepreneurship at well-established conferences.
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