
Georgios OutsiosVrije Universiteit Brussel | VUB · Solvay Business School
Georgios Outsios
PhD
Research Fellow (Marie Sklodowska-Curie)
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The recognition and expansion of social entrepreneurship as an approach to address social and environmental issues has increased the research efforts on various topics to complement the field but has not extensively investigated the level of influence of the macro-level factors on social enterprises’ operations. To address this gap, we used quantit...
Social Entrepreneurship constitutes a crucial driver of social innovation
(Hall, Matos, Sheehan, & Silvestre, 2012). This is due to the fact that social entrepreneurs use creative business models to resolve social and environmental challenges (Evans et al., 2017). By doing so, they develop much-needed innovations for contemporary societies, positiv...
Environmental entrepreneurship has emerged as a significant sub-domain of entrepreneurship research. Drawing from Bourdieu’s work on the notion of habitus, we theorise on the emergence of UK environmental entrepreneurs. Based on evidence from a focus group and a series of in-depth interviews with twenty social and commercial environmental entrepren...
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Existing research highlights gender as an important dimension for entrepreneurship theory and practice. This study aims to explore the differences between female and male sustainable entrepreneurs in the areas of previous professional experiences, their performance and growth, their use of financial resources and their overall attitude to r...