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        <journal-title>Journal of Security and Sustainability Issues</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">2029-7017</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2029-7017</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>LKA</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">JSSI437</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.9770/jssi.2015.4.3(7)</article-id>
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          <subject>Article</subject>
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        <article-title>Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainability – Understanding the Context and Key Characteristics</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Goyal</surname>
            <given-names>Sandeep</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:sandy2u@gmail.com">sandy2u@gmail.com</email>
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        <aff id="j_jssi_aff_000">Management Development Institute, Mehrauli Road, Sukhrali, Gurgaon - 122 007, Haryana, India</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Sergi</surname>
            <given-names>Bruno S.</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:bsergi@fas.harvard.edu">bsergi@fas.harvard.edu</email>
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        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_jssi_aff_001">Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA and University of Messina, Via T. Cannizzaro 278, Messina, Italy</aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <volume>4</volume>
      <issue>3</issue>
      <fpage>269</fpage>
      <lpage>278</lpage>
      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <day>31</day>
        <month>03</month>
        <year>2015</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>31</day>
        <month>03</month>
        <year>2015</year>
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        <p>This research article presents sustainable model system based framework derived from the scholarly investigation into the existent research literature on social entrepreneurship. The social entrepreneurship is emerging as a viable alternative to the traditional institutional setups for making a sustainable impact and reach towards the underserved needs of the low-income population living in the developing economies. The existing research on social entrepreneurship lacks focus on creating an integrated framework thereby posing a limitation to the entry, growth and penetration of the social entrepreneurship based market setup. The sustainable model system comprises a combination of the constraining conditions and key choices. The constraining conditions include the environmental and firm-specific constraints like need addressed, mission type and socio-economic objectives. The relative impact and significance of the key choices vary for different social enterprises depending upon the applicable constraining conditions.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>social entrepreneurship</kwd>
        <kwd>base of the pyramid</kwd>
        <kwd>sustainability</kwd>
        <kwd>literature review</kwd>
      </kwd-group>
      <kwd-group kwd-group-type="JEL">
        <label>JEL</label>
        <kwd>M140</kwd>
        <kwd>M10</kwd>
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