Social Entrepreneurship

This book draws on the latest theory and research to define the boundaries of ‘social entrepreneurship’. Global perspective and pedagogy provide students with learning tools to understand the unique structure, challenges and goals of social ventures...

This book draws on the latest theory and research to define the boundaries of ‘social entrepreneurship’. Global perspective and pedagogy provide students with learning tools to understand the unique structure, challenges and goals of social ventures...

This book explores the lived experience of cultural entrepreneurship to comment on the challenges associated with cultural labour including the insecurities of managing precarious working conditions. Drawing on interviews conducted with cultural workers, it focuses on how individuals articulate thei..

Enterprising Initiatives expands the definition of entrepreneurship beyond a profit-seeking phenomenon to a broader understanding of enterprising behaviour based on an individual-opportunity nexus. Exploring a broad range of individual, collective and cooperative citizen initiatives, it shows how cu..

An economic analysis of entrepreneurship and the development process for innovation. It seeks to distinguish the role of the capitalist from that of an entrepreneur, and to show how the entrepreneur's actions impact new employment, economic growth, and advancements in the standard of living...

This textbook introduces and explains the terminology surrounding social enterprise and brings much-needed rigour to proceedings by demonstrating how this can be measured, evaluated and held accountable. The result is a fascinating summary of current thinking surrounding this topic from some of the ..

Social Enterprise and Special Events focuses on events that are nonprofit, public and cross-sectorial in nature. Examining these types of events using relevant concepts such as social enterprise, public-private partnerships, collaborative governance, social capital, community building, diversity and..

What motivates someone to become a social entrepreneur? What are the competencies needed to be effective social advocates and agents for change? This book answers these questions in an accessible and practical way, providing comprehensive guidelines, numerous examples, and sources of information and..

What motivates someone to become a social entrepreneur? What are the competencies needed to be effective social advocates and agents for change? This book answers these questions in an accessible and practical way, providing comprehensive guidelines, numerous examples, and sources of information and..

Social entrepreneurship and social enterprises share the potential to make a difference for people and societies. The Nordic countries represent an interesting case. In this book the editors demonstrate how the leading narratives and discourses that has shaped the Nordic societies, also shape the na..

This book presents a fresh approach to poverty alleviation by bridging the fields of international development and social entrepreneurship. The authors present a six-step model for developing an IP business positioning strategy that allows developing country producers to position themselves better a..

By analysing organisational and contextual elements, this book offers an institutional perspective on how socio-economic systems can reply to challenges such as social and environmental degradation, financial crises, immigration, inequality, and marginalisation...