This article reviews the 30 entrepreneurs who have created profitable companies, and which also have been exemplary in their efforts to social responsibility. It examines their management practices in order to understand how these socially responsible entrepreneurs create and build their companies. Research shows that these socially responsible entrepreneurs founded their company, at least in part, to achieve idealistic goals, and pursued financial and non-financial targets simultaneously. Most avoid financing from institutional sources, employees of their common values, and cleverly used her social identity to differentiate themselves in the market. Many of these entrepreneurs have made extraordinary efforts to create a strong organizational culture and implement sustainable operational processes to meet their voluntary ethical standards. These socially responsible entrepreneurs gave a significant amount of their profits to the reasons for their choice, and volunteered themselves as role models for other businesses and entrepreneurs to follow. "Hide
by David W. Choi, Edmund R. Gray Source: Business Horizons 12 pages. Publication Date: July 15, 2008. Prod. #: BH287-PDF-ENG
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