ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses a city that, at least partly, seems to be applying such a social entrepreneurship strategy, namely, Malm, Copenhagen's twin city across the resund, long troubled by the aftermath of the 1970s crisis and socio-economic problems such as poverty, unemployment and alienation. The overarching purpose of this chapter is to advance understanding of how paradigm-building actors, by their actions, shape the reality of social entrepreneurship by using different narrative styles, and to tentatively outline the consequences of such reality shaping in terms of the legitimacy of social entrepreneurship in general and for the City of Malm specifically. The empirical material consists of two recently published books taken to be representative of the social entrepreneurship discourse. In the third and final section, the initiatives following in the wake of the Commission for a Socially Sustainable Malm come in focus as being shaped between Odysseus's scar and Abraham's sacrifice.
