Research Catalog

Title

Social entrepreneurship : new models of sustainable social change / edited by Alex Nicholls.

Publication

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Nicholls, Alex

Description

l, 448 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

This text examines the phenomenon of 'social entrepreneurship' as practised by grass-roots activists, NGOs, policy makers, international institutions, and corporations. Leading academics, policy makers, and practitioners seek to clarify some of the ambiguity around this term, and develop clear frameworks to understand it.

Subject

• Social entrepreneurship
• Social change
• Gestion d'entreprises
• Economie sociale
• Innovations
• Politique sociale
• Responsabilité sociale de l'entreprise
• Développement social
• Développement durable
• Social change
• Social entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurship
• Sozialer Wandel
• Soziale Verantwortung
• Unternehmen

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Social business entrepreneurs are the solution / Muhammad Yunus -- The citizen sector transformed / Bill Drayton -- For what it is worth : social value and the future of social entrepreneurship / Rowena Young -- Cultivating the other invisible hand of social entrepreneurship : comparative advantage, public policy, and future research priorities / Geoff Mulgan -- Social entrepreneurship : the structuration of a field / Alex Nicholls and Albert Hyunbae Cho -- Social entrepreneurship : agency in a globalizing world / Paola Greneir -- Rhetoric, reality, and research : building a solid foundation for the practice of social entrepreneurship / Beth Battle Anderson and J. Gregory Dees -- Social entrepreneurship : it is for corporations, too / James E. Austin ... [et al.] -- Social entrepreneurship : exploring a cultural mode amidst others in the Church of England / Doug Foster -- Social enterprise models and their mission and money relationships / Sutia Kim Alter -- The socially entrepreneurial city / Charles Leadbeater -- Helping people is difficult : growth and performance in social enterprises working for international relief and development / Alex Jacobs -- The social entrepreneurship collaboratory (SE Lab) : a university incubator for a rising generation of social entrepreneurs / Gordon M. Bloom -- Wayfinding without a compass : philanthropy's changing landscape and its implications for social entrepreneurs / Sally Osberg -- Delivering on the promise of social entrepreneurship : challenges faced in launching a global social capital market / Pamela Hartigan -- Social entrepreneurship : the promise and the perils / Jerr Boschee -- Moving ahead together : implications of a blended value framework for the future of social entrepreneurship / Jed Emerson.

ISBN

• 9780199283880
• 0199283885

LCCN

9780199283880

OCLC

• ocn190967275
• 190967275
• SCSB-9134077

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library