Social Enterprise and Entrepreneurship: A History of Ideas, Institutions, and Action

Edwin Morris, University of South Florida - St. Petersberg
Maling Ebrahimpour, University of South Florida - St. Petersburg

ABSTRACT
We first define and describe Social Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurs. We then, review the history of Social Enterprise and Entrepreneurship. We discuss how the movement started and their progress throughout the centuries. Furthermore, we identify main turning points of events that help spread the word about Social Entrepreneur and Entrepreneurship. In order to build a chronology encompassing the greatest and most influential moments of the Social Enterprise it is necessary to go beyond the bounds of any singularly stringent definition of what the social enterprise or social entrepreneur actually embodies in today's terms. To stay within this framework would grossly neglect significant events, people and ideas that are at the heart of what the terms mean and how the modern interpretation and development of the social enterprise has come to be. Using the past, present we attempt to predict the next turning point for the Social Enterprise and Entrepreneurship.

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