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Faith-Based Social Entrepreneurial Orientation: A Case Study Of Evangelicals, Richard Clark
Faith-Based Social Entrepreneurial Orientation: A Case Study Of Evangelicals, Richard Clark
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The focus of this study is the experiences of eight individual evangelical social entrepreneurs within their congregations. What type of legitimacy do they seek and/or receive for? Do they sense any pressure to conform/motivations to act relative to their congregation’s values/identity? Do these relationships encourage or discourage their entrepreneurial orientation/intensity and in what ways?
The primary research question is “how does embeddedness in an evangelical faith community affect the experiences and expression of social entrepreneurial orientation and intensity for evangelical faith-based social entrepreneurs, if at all?”
The study identifies three types of congregations in terms of their relationship to the …