Open AccessSocial Entrepreneurship: rethinking theoretical assumptions
Author(s) -
Monika Golonka,
Anna Rychlik
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
przedsiębiorczość, edukacja
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2449-9048
pISSN - 2083-3296
DOI - 10.24917/20833296.172.6
Subject(s) - entrepreneurship , notice , epistemology , field (mathematics) , sociology , positive economics , realism , social science , political science , economics , philosophy , law , pure mathematics , mathematics
Most of the Social Entrepreneurship (SE) literature derives its theoretical assumptions from the field of entrepreneurship in general, and more broadly, from modern economic theory. However, some thinkers notice significant gaps in existing theory and try to conceptualise SE incorporating some missing elements. In this theoretical paper, we explain the origins of contemporary SE concepts, analyse the significant contemporary SE works of leading thinkers and their theoretical assumptions. We also specify major shortcomings in existing concepts and demonstrate the possibility of filling gaps by realism, especially Aristotle’s philosophy. His distinctive realist view of human beings, including entrepreneurs, and his broader view on economics allows us to understand the essential nature of entrepreneurship, providing unique insights regarding the intellectual-volitional faculties of the social entrepreneur.