Abstract Against the background of the corona pandemic, economic, and geopolitical crises in the past years, the question of how to achieve a sustainable development recovery has become a critical issue for many organizations and governments. For this reason, in the context of a huge technological leap, our research approach aims to advance the discussion about the triad on which stable and prosperous societies must be laid, is made up of the three pillars: classic, social and public entrepreneurship. This conceptual paper proposes a theory that focuses on the connections and the complementarity of the three types of entrepreneurship. Using a comparative analysis, we adapted and extended the framework proposed by Austin et al. (2006); we started from their proposed four key variables to guide our analysis – mission, market failure, resource mobilization, performance measurement – and we added two other variables: knowledge and technology. We also used the triadic model as a background (Scarlat, 2017). Using the theoretical foundations we laid out, this paper develops a new understanding of social and public entrepreneurship. It also suggests areas for researchers to explore further and makes some practical recommendations for public and social entrepreneurs.
Grigore et al. (Mon,) studied this question.