Ricerc@Sapienza

For many decades, entrepreneurship and making profit were seen interchangeable and almost impossible to separate. It has been widely assumed that entrepreneurs were perceived as mostly commercially driven and profit-oriented, with dividends shared among company shareholders. Recently, the emergent literature was beginning to question this representation of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs and discussion about society impact of entrepreneurial actions has been brought into the front page (Sepulveda 2015; Farmer et al. 2016). Austin et al. (Austin et al.

Social entrepreneurship (SE) is a beautiful and growing vehicle in society
to tackle social problems in innovative ways. Unfortunately, existing
research has failed to address to what extent SEs are truly living up to
their promises. In result, surprisingly little is known about the actual
success of SEs in creating social impact. Even more elementary, it is hard
to know whether SEs are measuring and monitoring their social impact.
Using a worldwide sample of 3.194 SEs from the Global Entrepreneurship

Social entrepreneurship (SE) is a beautiful and growing vehicle in society
to tackle social problems in innovative ways. Unfortunately, existing
research has failed to address to what extent SEs are truly living up to
their promises. In result, surprisingly little is known about the actual
success of SEs in creating social impact. Even more elementary, it is hard
to know whether SEs are measuring and monitoring their social impact.
Using a worldwide sample of 3.194 SEs from the Global Entrepreneurship

The topic of social impact assessment (SIA) is growing in importance, and this is especially true for social enterprises. The mission of solving social problems is the main feature of these organizations; thus, the need to assess the extent to which this mission is fulfilled becomes essential.