Applying the Positive Theory of Social Entrepreneurship to Understand Food Entrepreneurs and Their Operations

Fostering tourism and entrepreneurship in fringe communities: Unpacking stakeholder perceptions towards entrepreneurial climate

“…Our dimension of Education, mentoring, networks, business services directly relates to three of Wilson et al factors: coordination and cooperation between businesspersons and local leadership, coordination and cooperation between rural tourism entrepreneurs, and information and technical assistance for tourism development and promotion. Likewise, many other studies have cited the need for networking opportunities to build social capital for tourism development (Kline et al, 2014b;Kwon et al, 2013;McGehee et al, 2010). Over twothirds (67.1%) of respondents considered themselves absolutely or somewhat entrepreneurial.…”

Women as vectors of social entrepreneurship

“…This article critically explores a model of social entrepreneurship focusing on the nature of engagement and participation by women entrepreneurs in tourism. Research on social entrepreneurship defined as ''entrepreneurial activity with an embedded social purpose" (Austin, Stevenson, & Wei-Skillern, 2006, p.2) has grown in the last decade (Christoph, Laeis, & Lemke, 2016;Kline, Shah, & Rubright, 2014;Mair & Marti, 2006;Von der Weppen & Cochrane, 2012;Zahra, Gedajlovic, Neubaum, & Shulman, 2009). Studies on social ventures in developed and developing economies suggests that social entrepreneurship is a key contributor to the creation and diversification of entrepreneurial activity, economic growth, emancipation and empowerment of women (Datta & Gailey, 2012).…”

“…First we integrate the theoretical lens of social entrepreneurship and the literature on women in tourism to critically analyze the role of women as vectors of social entrepreneurship in tourism. They are social entrepreneurs because they simultaneously pursue commercial and social goals (Ruebottom, 2013) by taking risks and making do of whatever resources they can access to fill a market need and contribute to local development (Di Domenico, Haugh, & Tracey, 2010) around the tourism sector or destination (Kline et al, 2014). Based on the empirical analysis we develop a theoretical framework depicting the role of women-owner managers of STFs in terms of the combination of commercial/economic goals they pursue, the social transformation that they seek to create in society and the associated impacts on the specific communities they serve (Di Domenico et al, 2010;Ruebottom, 2013;Zahra et al, 2009).…”

Learning with the market

“…However, research in social tourism entrepreneurship mainly focuses on re-validating (rather than expanding) the generic literature in social entrepreneurship (von der Weppen and Cochrane, 2012;Tetzschner and Herlau, 2003), because the former simply tends to survey and examine the applicability of the motives and operations of social entrepreneurs within the context of tourism (Sloan et al, 2014;Kline et al, 2014;Mody and Day, 2014). Consequently, the ways and processes in which social value can be generated have been overlooked in both the generic and tourism literature.…”

“…Learning with the market heritage sites focusing on the responsible re-enactment of history (Elfving and Lemmetyinen, 2015); restaurants aiming to provide a social way of food production and provision (Sigala, in press); accommodation supporting community development and equal entrepreneurial activities (Sigala, 2015); social sports tourism aiming to foster a lifestyle values and well-being (Ratten, 2014); and souvenirs/community involvement aiming to enable community development (McGehee et al, 2014;Kline et al, 2014). Social entrepreneurship is also heavily studied from three major research streams: social entrepreneurship research that usually examines the entrepreneurial behavior and goals of social ventures (Haugh, 2005;Dees and Economy, 2001;Mort et al, 2003); research on social entrepreneurs that primarily focuses on investigating the personality and distinctive characteristics, traits and competencies of the social venture founder (Drayton, 2002;Thompson et al, 2000;Bornstein, 1998;Dees, 1998); and research on social enterprises concentrating on the tangible outcomes of social entrepreneurship (Mair and Marti, 2006;Peredo and McLean, 2010;Wallace, 2005).…”