Service Learning in Social Entrepreneurship Education: Why Students Want to Become Social Entrepreneurs and How to Address Their Motives

Mueller, Susan; Brahm, Taiga; Neck, Heidi (2015). Service Learning in Social Entrepreneurship Education: Why Students Want to Become Social Entrepreneurs and How to Address Their Motives Journal of Enterprising Culture, 23(3), pp. 357-380. 10.1142/S0218495815500120

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Service learning has been identified as a suitable approach to teach social entrepreneurship. However, in order to design service learning in an appropriate way, it is necessary to better understand why students want to become a social entrepreneur as opposed to a traditional entrepreneur. Thus, this study aims at identifying distinct student motives for preferring social entrepreneurship. According to our research, reasons typically mentioned by students who prefer a social entrepreneurship career over a commercial entrepreneurship career belonged to the following categories: impact, personal motives, and considering social and economic aspects. From this understanding, we derive recommendations for the design of service learning in social entrepreneurship programs. We hope that these recommendations will contribute to a student-oriented design of service learning that incorporates students’ own motives.

Item Type:	Journal Article (Original Article)
Division/Institute:	Business School > Institute for Innovation and Strategic Entrepreneurship
Name:	Mueller, Susanhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2061-5446; Brahm, Taiga and Neck, Heidi
Language:	English
Submitter:	Susan Müller
Date Deposited:	30 Nov 2020 15:24
Last Modified:	21 Sep 2021 02:18
Publisher DOI:	10.1142/S0218495815500120
Uncontrolled Keywords:	entrepreneurship; social entrepreneurship; social business; motivation; service learning
ARBOR DOI:	10.24451/arbor.13642
URI:	https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/13642