Thanks to sponsorship from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) was pleased to award the Social Entrepreneurship Paper Awards from 2022 to 2024 for promising research centering social entrepreneurship and innovation.

2024 Winners

Winner: Yi Ming Ng, Northwestern University and Dr. Alwyn Lim, Singapore Management University

• Pape Title: "Integrative Interactions as Market Contestations: A Microfoundational Perspective on Transformative Hybrid Organizer"

Student Winner: Srishti Manivel, CSE at ETHZ & Co-Founder at TryNew

• Paper Title: "The Pillars of Social Enterprise Success: Drivers, Opportunities and Challenges"

Yi Ming Ng	Dr. Alwyn Lim	Srishti Manivel

2023 Winners

Winner: Dr. Meenal Rana, Cal Poly Humboldt; Beth Phelps, Oregon State University; Lonny Grafman, Cal Poly Humboldt

• Paper Title: “Youth-Adult Partnership in Social Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement: A Case Study of Daula Village in India”

Student Winner: Karina Santellano, University of Southern California

• Paper Title: “'We are Children of Immigrants': Entrepreneurial Pivots Towards Market Strategies of Belonging”

Dr. Meenal Rana	Beth Phelps	Lonny Grafman	Karina Santellano

2022 Winners

Winner: Michael C. Dreiling, Univeristy of Oregon; Tomoyasu Nakamura, Senshu University; and Yvonne A. Braun, University of Oregon 

• Paper Title: “Nuclear Denial in Japan: Policymaking, Innovation, and the Network Power of an Energy Industrial Complex”

Student Winner: Demetrius Murphy, University of Southern California 

• Paper Title:“Quem pode ser a dona? (Who Can Be the Boss?): Afro-Brazilian Women Entrepreneurs and Gendered Racism” 

Dr. Michael C. Dreiling	Dr. Yvonne A. Braun	Demetrius Murphy