Just What Is a Social Entrepreneur?

In the current spring 2007 issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review, two Skoll Foundation leaders call for a more rigorous definition of social entrepreneurship in the lead article, “Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.”

Sally Osberg, president and CEO of the Skoll Foundation, and Roger L. Martin, a foundation board member and dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, write: “We would argue that the definition of social entrepreneurship today is anything but clear. As a result, social entrepreneurship has become so inclusive that it now has an immense tent into which all manner of social beneficial activities fit.”

To read the article, click here.