Title: Social entrepreneurship, age and gender: toward a model of social involvement in entrepreneurship

Authors: Séverine Le Loarne-Lemaire; Adnan Maalaoui; Léo-Paul Dana

Addresses: Grenoble Ecole de Management, 12, rue Pierre Sémart – 38000 Grenoble, France ' PSB Paris School of Business, 59, Rue nationale, 75013, Paris, France ' Montpellier Business School, Princeton University, 2300 Avenue des Moulins, Montpellier, 34080, France

Abstract: How and why does an entrepreneur decide to embark in social entrepreneurship and/or in a sustainable business? While the existing literature suggests that social entrepreneurs tend to be females and/or seniors, our findings indicate that these two groups have important differences; based on the analysis of the verbatim of entrepreneurs, our findings reveal that seniors claim to enter social enterprises with a conscious willingness to help society, while female entrepreneurs are less focused on social implication.

Keywords: age; gender; France; seniorpreneurship; social entrepreneurship.

DOI: 10.1504/IJESB.2017.084844

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2017 Vol.31 No.3, pp.363 - 381

Received: 12 Dec 2015
Accepted: 24 Dec 2015
Published online: 01 Jul 2017 *

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