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Methodological challenges in social entrepreneurship – on the nexus of economics and management area

Publication date: 22.09.2014

Public Management, 2014, Issue 2 (26), pp. 239 - 247

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843968ZP.14.020.2354

Authors

Marzena Starnawska
Gdańsk University of Technology
, Poland
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Methodological challenges in social entrepreneurship – on the nexus of economics and management area

Abstract

In this paper we make an attempt distinguishing challenges in SE research agenda in Polish and beyond. We identify what can impede the development of this area in Polish discourse These challenges vary in scope. They involve the dilemma between either economics or management as disciplinary settings. Also the understanding of social economy as such determines the chaos. Additionally, divergences in paradigms where researchers situate their research projects as well as variety and scarcity of available data on SE in the literature are important here. Most of all definitional debate of what entrepreneurship and so SE is determine the existing difficulties. We resume the discussion by returning to the interdisciplinary nature of the field and propose for further studies to be set in the area of management sciences.

 

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Information: Public Management, 2014, Issue 2 (26), pp. 239 - 247

Article type: Original article

Titles:

Polish:

Methodological challenges in social entrepreneurship – on the nexus of economics and management area

English:

Methodological challenges in social entrepreneurship – on the nexus of economics and management area

Authors

Gdańsk University of Technology
Poland

Published at: 22.09.2014

Article status: Open

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Marzena Starnawska (Author) - 100%

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