Cyborg Entrepreneurship
Research Programs
Resource Mobilization & Business Model Design

The Emergence of Dual-Identity Social Entrepreneurship

Its Boundaries and Limitations

Lowell W. Busenitz, Mark P. Sharfman, Jason Harkins
Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 7(1): 25-48
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Overview

This paper examines the emergence and limitations of dual-identity social entrepreneurship, where ventures simultaneously pursue social impact and financial sustainability.

Contribution to the Research Program

This work connects to the lab's interest in how entrepreneurs navigate tensions between competing logics — a theme that extends from social entrepreneurship to the human-AI tensions central to cyborg entrepreneurship.