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Understanding Social Entrepreneurship through a Solidarity Lens

30 October 2020, 2:00 pm–3:30 pm

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Join us for this event with Dr Anna Rebmann as part of the events organised by the Centre for Comparative Studies of Emerging Economies (CCSEE).

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

CCSEE

Location

Zoom

In this online seminar, the speaker will explore the role of solidarity in different societal spheres and the interaction, synergies and conflicts of its different forms, with particular emphasis on social entrepreneurship in a European context. A Q&A session will follow.

The paper abstract:

We advance research on social entrepreneurship by theorizing the role of different forms of solidarity across the state, personal and market spheres in society. Do different forms of solidarity in society act in mutually synergistic ways or do they crowd each other out? We explore how formal solidarity (welfare state) and informal solidarity (cultural support for formal solidarity and religiosity) influence solidarity in the market sphere as expressed through social entrepreneurship. We adopt a regional lens and apply a multi-level analysis to test our predictions on 17,800 individuals nested in 184 regions in 26 European countries. We combine data from independent sources and control for a range of alternative explanations. Our findings offer new insights into the contexts that uniquely facilitate social entrepreneurship. In line with our model of spheres of solidarity, we find support for the notion that formal and informal solidarity in society ‘crowd in’ social entrepreneurship as a market-based form of solidarity.

About the Speaker

Anna Rebmann

at King’s Business School

Anna Rebmann is a Lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship at King’s Business School. Her research is focused on comparative entrepreneurship – how institutions and culture impact on commercial and social entrepreneurs and firm growth and more recently how social entrepreneurs influence their local environments and create impact. She also does research on entrepreneurship education and incubation.

Anna’s research has been funded by the British Academy, Enterprise Educators UK, the Swiss Development Agency and the Global Development Network. She has won best paper awards from Academy of Management, The Journal of Small Business Management Award for the topic of Public Policy, and the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship.