How do social entrepreneurs compete? Entrepreneurial legitimacy in the Silicon Valley of humanitarian innovations
通过民族志分析，研究了社会企业家在争夺资金的同时，如何为个人认可和经济资本等资源带来的合法性而竞争，揭示了社会创业中常被忽视的竞争特征。
Social entrepreneurship has attracted much attention from celebrities, scholars, policymakers, and wealthy foundations. Yet little is known about this form of entrepreneurship beyond what is said in mission statements, autobiographies, and heroic narratives of social entrepreneurs. This paper contributes to this literature by discussing a feature of social entrepreneurship largely neglected by researchers: competition. Drawing on an ethnographic analysis inspired by Bourdieu, I argue that social entrepreneurs may not only compete for funds but also for legitimacy derived from resources such as personal recognition and economic capital.