A Survey of Social Entrepreneurship Concepts, Theories and Models and Designing Conceptual Model

The concept of entrepreneurship has derived much attention to itself from scientific boards and public and private organizations in the recent decades. A brief review on the literature of entrepreneurship reveals that due to the economic approaches taken, entrepreneurship is setting forth to find out new ways to maximize the benefit and income. At the other hand, social organizations, too, must use this concept to under go changes in their old structures. So, it is obvious that using this concept in non-economical sectors is in need of a different approach. For this reason, this article seeks to overview the basic concepts of entrepreneurship and differentiates its economical and social approaches in order to achieve to its social grounds. In addition, by exploring its typology and presenting a new model of entrepreneurship, this article criticizes the traditional view held toward private institutions and organizations. Then it discusses the main grounds in which social entrepreneurship can emerge, plus its challenges, its current issues, its theories and models in an appropriate structure, so as to elaborate on the basics of social entrepreneurship. At the end, according to typology and models of social entrepreneurship is suggested an integration typology. ...