Corporate Social Entrepreneurship

Austin, James E.; Reficco, Ezequiel A.

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Corporate Social Entrepreneurship

Oekologisches Wirtschaften, No. 2, 2009

5 Pages Posted: 2 Jul 2009 Last revised: 22 Oct 2009

See all articles by James E. Austin

Ezequiel A. Reficco

ESCP Business School

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Date Written: June 30, 2009

Abstract

The German version of this article can be found at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1490345

Corporate Social Entrepreneurship (CSE) is a process aimed at enabling business to develop more advanced and powerful forms of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). CSE emerges from and builds on three other conceptual frameworks: entrepreneurship, corporate entrepreneurship, and social entrepreneurship. The fundamental purpose of CSE is to accelerate companies’ organizational transformation into more powerful generators of societal betterment.

Keywords: social enterprise, corporate social responsibility, social entrepreneurship

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Austin, James E. and Reficco, Ezequiel A., Corporate Social Entrepreneurship (June 30, 2009). Oekologisches Wirtschaften, No. 2, 2009, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1427898