Social Entrepreneurship

David Bornstein (b. 1958), a Canadian-American journalist, chronicled Muhammad Yunus's Grameen Bank and then the global rise of citizen-sector innovators. Co-founder of the Solutions Journalism Network and long-time co-author of the New York Times 'Fixes' column, he gave social entrepreneurship its defining narrative.

Bornstein chronicled how social entrepreneurs mobilize organizations against social problems — leadership measured by mission outcomes, scaling impact rather than profit.

The era: Distributed & Complex — Distributed, dispersed, interdependent, embedded in interaction; leadership as learning; global competencies; combine all theories.

Entrepreneurs who build organizations to solve social problems.

This theory sits in the Distributed & Complex era of the map: Distributed, dispersed, interdependent, embedded in interaction; leadership as learning; global competencies; combine all theories.

• Bornstein, D. (2007). How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas (updated ed.). Oxford University Press. Google Scholar ↗
• Dees, J. G. (1998). The meaning of social entrepreneurship. Kauffman Foundation working paper. Google Scholar ↗