A survey designed by the authors was administered to Hub members worldwide (N=127, response rate=15.3%) in an effort to better understand the motivational bases of social entrepreneurs. Social entrepreneurship motivation is a topic that has recently begun to receive attention in the social...

Following literature that already reframes entrepreneurship as a social change activity, we consider the change potential of entrepreneurial narratives in crowdfunding pitches of predominantly female-run ventures. In particular, we position the community driven phenomenon crowdfunding as a...

Research into Crowdfunding (CF) rarely uses a holistic view on the positioning of relevant actors and their activities. We are looking at how crowdfunding platforms (CFP) as focal actors exert influence to create and delineate the field and apply an ecosystem perspective by studying structure...

Research on social entrepreneurship has taken an increasing interest in issues pertaining to ideology. In contrast to existing research which tends to couch ‘ideology' in pejorative terms (i.e. something which needs to be overcome), this paper conceives ideology as a key mechanism for...

Opportunity recognition (OR) is at the very heart of entrepreneurship. However, research on OR in the context of social entrepreneurship is still in its early stages. First, this article identifies, codifies and analyses OR-relevant articles on social entrepreneurship (SE) through the lens of...

Research into Crowdfunding (CF) rarely uses a holistic view on the role of relevant actors and their activities. We thus demonstrate this gap and need from literature and apply an ecosystem perspective to study the influence of crowdfunding platforms (CFPs) as focal actors on the field from a...

Crowdfunding (CF) is a form of early-stage financing for innovative ventures, which has seen tremendous growth in the past few years - partly because it provides a desperately needed alternative to the scarcity of traditional sources of finance during the so called ‘credit crunch'. CF ranges...