Social Entrepreneurship from the Perspective of Opportunity: Integration Analysis Based on Timmons Process Model

Abstract

As an effective means to solve social problems, social entrepreneurship has received extensive attention from academic and practical circles. Although social entrepreneurship research has achieved great development in the past decade, the research results in various fields are still scattered and lack of a systematic logical framework, which hinders its rapid growth into a more potential research field. Combining the Timmons entrepreneurial model with Shane and Venkataraman’s entrepreneurial opportunity process research ideal, we take the sources, identification and utilization of social entrepreneurship opportunities as the basis, and at the same time contact with social entrepreneurship subjects and resources to deeply explore the interaction and dynamic balance between various elements from the perspective of entrepreneurship process. Then, we explore the constructive integration analysis framework of social entrepreneurship, which has important theoretical and practical significance for further deepening and expanding social entrepreneurship research.