Social entrepreneurship: concept development, networks and open organizational form : a case study

Abstract

Social entrepreneurship (SE) is a phenomenon that has growing impact in the business and has witnessed an emerging interest as research stream. Particularly in the last decade there has been a relevant increase of theoretical and empirical studies. The paper deepens the analysis of this stream of research, drawing on past literature reviews. Building on a rich dataset and on longitudinal bibliometric data, the paper traces the development of the debate in the last two decades. We allayed an interesting case study, Radio Magica (RM) a Not Profit Foundation over a three year period (2009 - 2012), from its foundation to December 2012 the 10th, when RM starts to broadcast. Our study shed more light on a neglected issue that is the interplay between the new venture concept and the entrepreneur’s network in the early stages of new ventures