Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation in Aging

Abstract: Social entrepreneurship is usually understood as an economic activity which focuses at social values, goals, and investments that generates surpluses for social entrepreneurs as individuals, groups, and startups who are working for the benefit of communities, instead of strictly focusing mainly at the financial profit, economic values, and the benefit generated for shareholders or owners. Social entrepreneurship combines the production of goods, services, and knowledge in order to achieve both social and economic goals and allow for solidarity building. From a broader perspective, entities that are focused on social entrepreneurship are identified as parts of the social and solidarity economy. These are, for example, social enterprises, cooperatives, mutual organizations, self-help groups, charities, unions, fair trade companies, community enterprises, and time banks. Social innovation is a key element of social entrepreneurship. Social innovation is usually understood as new strat

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anmerkungen: Preprint ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: Gu, Danan (Hg.), Dupre, Matthew E. (Hg.): Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. 2020. ISBN 978-3-319-69892-2

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wo): Mannheim
• (wer): SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
• (wann): 2020
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wo): Cham
• (wer): Springer
• (wann): 2020
• Urheber: Klimczuk, Andrzej ; Felix, Jorge
• Beteiligte Personen und Organisationen: Gu, Danan ; Dupre, Matthew E.

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_242-1
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-71578-3
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 25.03.2025, 13:49 MEZ