About this journal

To date, much of social entrepreneurship scholarship has emerged from business schools and has, as a consequence, tended to focus on organizational, strategic, and financial issues. The perspective has largely been to use business models to explore social innovation, and particularly, social enterprise (social entrepreneurship that moves towards self-funding). The approach has largely been 'what can social entrepreneurship learn from business perspectives'. This is an important part of the scholarly picture, but the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship has a far broader remit.

In this journal, social entrepreneurship is defined as having four key components - sociality, innovation, market orientation, and hybridity. First, sociality is a focus on a defined social purpose or benefit to society that is carefully measured. This could be identifiable by organization type such as co-operatives or charities, or sectors, like healthcare or education. Second, innovation is seen as either creative or destructive changes to social or economic systems. Third, market orientation places social entrepreneurship in a broader competitive landscape of funding, outputs, accountability and legitimacy, all focused on a relentless effort to improve performance and increase social impact. Finally, social entrepreneurship is defined by its tendency to operate in hybrid spaces between the public, private/commercial and civil society sectors - often in the form of hybrid organizational forms such as co-operatives or social enterprises. This definition of social entrepreneurship includes both for and not-for-profit organizations, as well as public sector bodies. However, it excludes all organizations the primary purpose of which is profit-maximisation, irrespective of whether they also aim to do social good, as this falls under quite the separate heading of Corporate Social Responsibility.

Key areas of interest for the Journal to draw from, and explore relationships with, include social policy and political science; anthropology; sociology; not-for-profit management; finance; organizational theory; strategy; social geography; (development) economics; ethics and moral philosophy; and social psychology. However, the Journal is open to work in any scholarly tradition with the twin caveats that the work is squarely focused on social entrepreneurship, and that it is high quality.

The vision for the Journal is as a high quality, multidisciplinary publication that embraces and encourages work on social entrepreneurship from a range of scholarly perspectives beyond business and management and accepts that social entrepreneurship has much to offer the third and public sectors. The Journal is unprescriptive with respect to methodology, accepting qualitative and quantitative work equally on merit. However, in order to build the academic credibility of social entrepreneurship, there is currently a need to move away from both descriptive case studies and individual 'hero' accounts of social entrepreneurs, so the Journal actively supports both theory-inflected work and broader empirical studies.

Peer Review Statement

Manuscripts submitted to the Journal are subject to editorial screening and double anonymized peer review.

Editor
Alex Nicholls
Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
Saïd Business School
University of Oxford
UK

Associate Editors
Paolo Agnese - Uninettuno University, Italy
Effie Amanatidou - University of Manchester, UK
Haley Beer -Warwick University, UK
Lok Bhattarai - Sheridan College, Canada
Paolo Capuano - University of Rome, Italy
Yanto Chandra - City University of Hong Kong (CityU). Hong Kong
Cheryl H.K. Chui - The University of Hong Kong
Kelly Danielle - University of Stirling, UK
Frédéric Dufays - University of Liège, Belgium
Tjiptono Fandy - University of Wellington, New Zealand
Kelly Hall - University of Birmingham, UK
Melissa Hawkins - Northumbria University, UK
Richard Hazenberg - University of Northampton, UK
Anne-Karen Hueske - Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Muhammad Azizul Islam - University of Aberdeen, UK
Samppa Kamara - Oulu Business School, Finland
Gorgi Krlev - ESCP Business School Paris, France
Othmar Lehner - Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Findland
Georg Mildenberger - University of Heidelberg, Germany
Alex Murdock - London South Bank University, UK
M.K. Nandakumar - Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK), India
Jamie Newth - University of Auckland, New Zealand
Katerina Nicolopoulou - University of Strathclyde, UK
Nadia Di Paola - University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Jacob Park - Green Mountain College, USA
Nevena Radoynovska - EM Lyon Business School, France
Michael Roy - Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
Jorge Miguel Oliviera Sá Cunha - University of Minho, Portugal
Leandro Sepulveda Ramirez - Middlesex University, UK
Riad Shams - Northumbria University, UK
Nicole Siebold - Aarhus University, Denmark
Ardhendu Shekhar Singh - Symbiosis International (Deemed University), India
Artur Steiner - Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
Craig Talmage - Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA
Simon Teasdale - Queens University Belfast, UK
Ichiro Tsukamoto - Meiji University, Japan
Norah Xiaolu Wang - University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Jay Weerawardena - University of Queensland, Australia
Nadia von Jacobi - University of Trento, Italy
Rafael Ziegler - HEC Montréal, Canada

Editorial Board
Helmut Anheier - University of Heidelberg, Germany and UCLA, USA
Francois Brouard - Carleton University, Canada
Jacques Defourny - Université de Liège, Belgium
William Drayton - Ashoka
Roberto Gutiérrez Poveda - University of the Andes, Colombia
Paul Light - New York University, USA
Tom Lumpkin - Syracuse University, USA
Patricia Marques - University of San Diego, USA
Jonathan Michie - University of Oxford, UK
Scott Newbert - Baruch College, USA
Marthe Nyssens - University of Louvain, Belgium
Mariarosa Scarlata - University of Bergamo, Italy
Gillian Sullivan Mort - La Trobe University, Australia
Boris Urban - Wits Business School, South Africa
Marc Ventresca - University of Oxford, UK
Dennis R. Young - Cleveland State University, USA

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