Considered alongside research which argues that
entrepreneurial marketing is likely to occur within
organisations which display an entrepreneurial
culture (Bjerke and Hultman, 2002; Carson et al.,
1995), this data suggests that the prevailing culture
within most participating social enterprises was
conducive to approaching marketing from an
entrepreneurial perspective. However, when
respondents were asked if they would describe
themselves as “an entrepreneur” very few agreed
that this was a description which they would
attribute to themselves. Instead, many
respondents spoke of the “community” and