TY - CHAP AB - From its earliest incarnations, entrepreneurship has been linked to innovation, and often innovations with a societal or social impact. Although classical economists discussed the role entrepreneurs play in handling risk in an economy (Hébert & Link, 2009), perhaps the greater risks have been the social impacts which entrepreneurship brought to societies (Drucker, 1985). The power of mercantile economies like the Phoenician or two thousand years later the British came as much from the new ideas and processes they introduced to the societies of trading partners as from the goods traded. VL - 13 SN - 978-1-78052-073-5, 978-1-78052-072-8/1074-7540 DO - 10.1108/S1074-7540(2011)0000013004 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1074-7540(2011)0000013004 AU - Lumpkin G.T. AU - Katz Jerome A. ED - G.T. Lumpkin ED - Jerome A. Katz PY - 2011 Y1 - 2011/01/01 TI - An Introduction to the Special Volume on Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship T2 - Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship T3 - Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - xi EP - xix Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -