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ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Social Entrepreneurship: International and cross-cultural innovationCall for papers
Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
announces the call for papers for a specialissue on ‘Social Entrepreneurship: International and cross-cultural innovation’. Thedeadline for submissions is
December 31, 2007 
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Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
provides a multi-disciplinary forum forresearchers and practitioners in the field of entrepreneurship and small firmdevelopment and for those studying and developing the local and the regional context,in which entrepreneurs emerge, innovate, and establish the new economic activities,which drive economic growth and create new economic wealth and employment. The journal focuses on the diverse and complex characteristics of local and regionaleconomies, which lead to entrepreneurial vitality and endow the large and small firmswithin them with international competitiveness.
Entrepreneurship and RegionalDevelopment
is included in the ISI citation index.
Past research
The special edition of
Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
is intended to identifyprogression and development in matters arising from a prior special issue (16: 3) on‘Entrepreneurship in society: exploring and theorising new forms and practices ofentrepreneurship’. In that issue, the editors Chris Steyaert and Jerome Katz identifiedthe following in entrepreneurship research:
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the discussion for the space of entrepreneurship in society has been opened up,by the authors (2004), by focusing on geographical, discursive and socialdimensions of entrepreneurship, as well as expanded on, by Johnstone andLionais (2004) through their article on community business entrepreneurship,which is conceptualized as the entrepreneurial process that can be modified topursue community goals.
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Two related questions: what spaces/discourses/stakeholders have beenidentified in entrepreneurship research up to now and which can be consideredfor later in terms of the above dimensions
Special issue: Social Entrepreneurship: International and cross-cultural innovation
The proposed special issue will address the above issues, but also develop furtherunderstanding of the subject pertaining to social entrepreneurship which concernsinternational, cross cultural and innovation aspects. The proposed special issue builds
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on and complements the aforementioned special issue edited by Steyart and Katz (2004)in the following ways:
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Spells out clearly the need to study in-depth a cross cultural dimension, therefore‘operationalising’ the notion of different ‘spaces’ and the need to turn to culturalstudies to further conceptualise and explore entrepreneurship (p183)
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Builds on and furthers the discussion on economic entrepreneurship, bydifferentiating from, and complementing it with, social entrepreneurship. Thereis a clear debate on the topic (p 186) (Deetz, 2004 , Chell, 2006 , Chell, KaratasOzkan, Nicolopoulou, 2006)
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‘Operationalises’ several of the ‘social issues’ referred to in the previous specialissue, as key topics in the agenda of social entrepreneurship, such as the need to‘tie in’ entrepreneurship with social, cultural, civic, ecological, and artisticconsiderations (p 193; 181) )
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Introduces two further ‘nuances’ of the discursive dimension ofentrepreneurship, namely the innovation and cross cultural ones (p 185)
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Introduces another dimension in terms of the geography, such as the concept ofinnovative regions with social sensitivity ( p 181) (see above)It is worth noting three interacting sets of factors have influenced the development ofsocial enterprises internationally: demand side factors (i.e. public wanting services fromsocial enterprises as customers), supply side factors (essentially the supply of socialentrepreneurs), and contextual and institutional factors impacting on the relationbetween the two (Spear, 2006). Amin et al (2002) have stressed that internationaldifferences in social enterprises reflect differences in welfare systems, in political andinstitutional contexts. Given the values that social enterprises exemplify - enterprise,innovation, competitiveness and social inclusion - (Defourny, 2001; DTI, 2002), socialenterprises aim to create social value rather than personal wealth for the leader-manager (Chell, 2004, forthcoming). However, social enterprises are also faced with thechallenge to seek business solutions to social problems (Thompson and Doherty, 2006);and become and remain sustainable if they are to deliver maximum value along all threeaspects of the ‘triple bottom line’, which refers to the creation of financial, social andenvironmental value for the benefit of the community and wider social world. Thishighlights the ways in which a business model for enterprise could be built to accountfor those three aspects and thereby create ‘social value’ in order to ensure sustainability.In order to do that, social enterprises need to foster innovation as a response to thechallenges they are facing. In this particular context, the working definition ofinnovation would include innovation in outlook, behaviours, strategy and operations.The special issue aims to address in more detail, various aspects that define innovationfor social enterprise from a number of perspectives (policy-making, organisationalfeatures, competences for social entrepreneurship, as well as the socio-economic contextin which social enterprises exhibit their innovative capacities, such as the stakeholders’network of a social enterprise, which can be national or international).
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Aims of the special issue:
In this special issue, we seek to identify the following:
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What are the different models for social enterprise; and how do they differ fromeconomic enterprises?
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What constitutes innovation in social enterprises and social entrepreneurship?
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What is the relationship between innovation and the triple bottom line in termsof social enterprises?
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How can innovative practices be cross-fertilised between social enterprises? Andpossibly between them and other sectors?
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What are the new skills that people in social enterprises need to build in order tofoster and sustain innovation?
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How does policy making sustain the core attributes of socialentrepreneurship/does it sustain the development of innovative approaches?
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How do the above differ in different socioeconomic contexts? What othercharacteristic have been shown to be relevant?
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How can a cross-cultural perspective shed light to the above processes?
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What are the best practices that can be shared from different socioeconomic andcross-cultural perspectives?
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In understanding social entrepreneurship how can we shift the emphasis fromstructured entrepreneurial activities taking place in research parks, clusters andincubation centres to more spontaneous, emergent and complex forms in
brownfield
sites, urban and industrial regeneration areas?
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Methodologically, what are the benefits and shortcomings of interpretivist, socialconstructionist, structurationist and postmodern approaches in shedding light tothe complex phenomenon of social entrepreneurship?We would be particularly interested in attracting papers that address the concept of the‘paradox’ of innovative regions with a social sensitivity. India and Finland could be twocountries with regions exemplifying this, in that they embrace globally competitiveregions, whilst at the same time they exhibit the social conditions and systems whichfoster the development of social entrepreneurship. An exploration between the twoaspects of this seemingly ‘paradoxical’ phenomenon would be highly desirable as thefocus of some work for this special issue.We welcome both empirical, theoretical and policy papers offering key issues orcomprehensive frameworks on the subject. As
Entrepreneurship and Regional Development
is widely read by an academic and business audience, all submissions should includeimplications for policy makers and practitioners.
Process for the submission of papers
Papers submitted must not have been published/accepted for publication or presentlybe under consideration for publication elsewhere. Submissions should be about 6000-8000 words in length, copies should be submitted by email word attachment (in one file
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