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shareholder-primacymodel of proļ¬t maximizationā (Schwab 2019). Consistently,
the āEthics in Actionā-initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions
Network pointed out that āthe challenges of sustainable development are primarily
ethical in natureā; thus, āthe Sustainable Development Goals require āmoral
capacityā as much as ļ¬nancial or technical capacityā (Annett et al. 2017). At the
core of this SDG-driven transformation is the idea of a ānewcapitalismā, inwhich
both traditional for-proļ¬t (blue, cf., Fig. 2) and not-for-proļ¬t (red, cf. Fig. 2)
organizations are complemented by social entrepreneurial actors in all of their
varieties (green, cf. Fig. 2), including the supporting impact investing ecosystem
surrounding them:
While ādebates about the deļ¬nition of social business versus social
entrepreneurship keep coming up at conferencesā, the scientiļ¬c community is
āgetting closer to clearer deļ¬nitionsā (Grove, as cited in YY Foundation 2019,
p.22). Independentlyof thedeļ¬nition, it seems that social entrepreneursmayplaya
Fig. 1 Blended reality in relation to thephysical-virtual environment continuum. Sourceadapted
fromMilgram andKishino (1994), in Bower et al. (2010)
Fig. 2 Continuum of varieties of organisations in the ānew capitalismā. Source Ryder and
Vogeley (2018)
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Digital Entrepreneurship
Impact on Business and Society
- Title
- Digital Entrepreneurship
- Subtitle
- Impact on Business and Society
- Authors
- Mariusz Soltanifar
- Mathew Hughes
- Lutz Gƶcke
- Publisher
- Springer Verlag
- Location
- Cham
- Date
- 2021
- Language
- English
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-030-53914-6
- Size
- 16.0 x 24.0 cm
- Pages
- 340
- Keywords
- Entrepreneurship, IT in Business, Innovation/Technology Management, Business and Management, Open Access, Digital transformation and entrepreneurship, ICT based business models
- Category
- International