FROM URBAN ENTREPRENEURIALISM TO MUNICIPAL ENTREPRENEURIALISM: THE CASE OF SOCIAL PROJECTS IN İZMİR METROPOLITAN MUNICIPALITY

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Enterprises, entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurial functions have started to be studied in the 1920s under Max Weber’s influence. From that day to today, scholars have studied “entrepreneurship” and since the 1990s “social entrepreneurship” has drawn the attention of scholars, the private sector, and the public in general. In recent years, social entrepreneurship has received attention also in Turkey; however, it is still a new concept for the country. Although there seems not to be consensus on the definition and social entrepreneurship studies have proliferated, it has rarely been discussed from a local government perspective. This Master’s thesis seeks to develop a better understanding of how local governments approach social entrepreneurship and how urban entrepreneurialism changes into municipal entrepreneurialism in the case of İzmir Metropolitan Municipality. In the scope of this study, the policies and actions of the İzmir Metropolitan Municipality regarding municipal entrepreneurialism during the presidency periods of Ahmet Piriştina, Aziz Kocaoğlu and Tunç Soyer and the social entrepreneurship ecosystem dynamics in İzmir will be examined.

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Social Entrepreneurship, Urban Entrepreneurialism, Municipal Entrepreneurialism, Local Development, İzmir Metropolitan Municipality

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G. Akdoğan, “FROM URBAN ENTREPRENEURIALISM TO MUNICIPAL ENTREPRENEURIALISM: THE CASE OF SOCIAL PROJECTS IN İZMİR METROPOLITAN MUNICIPALITY,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2022.