Social entrepreneurship : leveraging economic, political, and cultural dimensions /

Research from ten different countries on implementation, institutionalization and future prospects of social entrepreneurship, considering the needs of social and human development in the context of economy, politics, and cultural issues. By conceptualizing the notions of social entrepreneurship and...

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Group Author: Lundström, Anders, 1946-; Zhou, Chunyan; Friedrichs, Yvonne von; Sundin, Elisabeth
Published: Springer,
Publisher Address: Cham, Switzerland :
Publication Dates: [2014]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: International studies in entrepreneurship ; 29
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Summary: Research from ten different countries on implementation, institutionalization and future prospects of social entrepreneurship, considering the needs of social and human development in the context of economy, politics, and cultural issues. By conceptualizing the notions of social entrepreneurship and societal entrepreneurship, this volume disseminates the latest findings in research and theory of social entrepreneurship that will be useful to educators, libraries, scholars, non-profit researchers, public policy makers, practitioners, students, and anyone interested in staying abreast of advances in this field. It is also an important reference source for conducting research in or teaching social entrepreneurship.
Carrier Form: vi, 363 pages : illustrations, charts ; 25 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9783319013954 (hardback) :
3319013955 (hardback)
Index Number: HD60
CLC: F272.2
Call Number: F272.2/S678
Contents: Part I. Rethinking social entrepreneurship -- Introduction / Anders Lundström and Chunyan Zhou -- Soci(et)al entrepreneurship and different forms social enterprise / Malin Gawell -- A review of social entrepreneurship and social enterprises: a three-dimensional perspective / Anders Lundström and Chunyan Zhou -- Part II. Implementing social entrepreneurship -- Entrepreneurial discovery and Asian entrepreneurship in the UK / Spinder Dhaliwal and David Deakins -- Corporate social responsibility in family versus non-family enterprises: an exploratory study / Giovanna Campopiano, Alfredo De Massis and Lucio Cassia -- What sustainable entrepreneurship looks like: an exploratory study from a student perspective / Katia Richomme-Huet and Julien de Freyman -- Developing entrepreneurial self-efficacy and intent: a case of social entrepreneurship / Jess Co and Sarah Cooper -- How can a health-care business achieve strategy elasticity in a crisis environment? / Jarmila S̆ebestová and Thomas M. Cooney.
Part III. The institutionalization of social entrepreneurship -- Improving entrepreneurial competency in low-income segments: the impact of entrepreneurial development agents / René Díaz-Pichardo, Nicolás Gutiérrez and Juan Arriaga-Múniz -- Entrepreneurship in society: a review and definition of community-based entrepreneurship research / Anne Pierre, Yvonne von Friedrichs and Joakim Wincent -- The rise of social innovation parks / Chunyan Zhou and Anders Lundström -- Part IV. The future of social entrepreneurship -- Social entrepreneurship, gendered entrepreneurship? / Malin Gawell and Elisabeth Sundin -- The likely determinants of social entrepreneurship and policy implications / Habib M. Kachlami -- Social and political entrepreneurship: ways and means to develop sparsely populated regions? / Marie-Louise von Bergmann-Winberg -- Social ventures and regional development: important contributions unappreciated / Habib M. Kachlami -- The policy strategy of supporting social entrepreneurship based on a three-dimensional approach / Anders Lundström and Chunyan Zhou.