Social Entrepreneurship’s Solutionism Problem
质疑社会创业的正面作用，认为它可能减少对立法和制度改革的压力，从而对社会产生负面影响。作者指出社会创业者易陷入“解决方案主义”，误以为能通过创业手段解决复杂公共问题，并建议研究者明确社会创业与公共政策的适用边界。
Abstract Social entrepreneurship has developed as an important area of theory and practice over the past three decades. Despite a broad consensus that it is a desirable method for addressing social and environmental problems, I argue it may instead have a negative societal impact as it reduces the pressure for ambitious legislation and institutional reforms that have more scope to effect change. Social entrepreneurs themselves are prone to a form of ‘solutionism’ in which they believe complex social problems can be addressed neatly through the apparatus of the entrepreneur, something I argue is ineffectual and inappropriate for tackling many of the deep‐seated and essentially ‘public’ structural problems we face. I offer some suggestions as to how researchers can provide some critical balance to theories of social entrepreneurship, specifically through better demarcating when social entrepreneurship is an optimal mechanism for addressing social problems, and when public policy may be preferable.