Screen LibrarySocial Entrepreneurship and Social Inclusion : Processes, Practices, and Prospects /
This book argues that embeddedness and community participation bring unique propositions for social entrepreneurship to foster social inclusion. It uncovers the role of local knowledge and grassroots level innovations to create necessary environment for the positive social change to roll. Social ent...
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Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Singapore : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1615-8 |
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This book argues that embeddedness and community participation bring unique propositions for social entrepreneurship to foster social inclusion. It uncovers the role of local knowledge and grassroots level innovations to create necessary environment for the positive social change to roll. Social enterprises have proven to reduce drudgery of poor and excluded by offering creative and innovative solutions for long standing social problems. The grassroots level creative problem solving mechanisms they initiate travel through a variety of local dynamics and cultural contexts. However, social inn |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(XXI,178pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9789811016158 |
| Index Number: | HD72 |
| CLC: | F272.91 |
| Contents: | 1. Introduction -- 2. Social Entrepreneurship, Community Participation and Embeddedness -- 3. Barefoot College - Philosophy and Governance -- 4. Barefoot approach and its practice -- 5. Implications of the barefoot approach on the rural poor -- 6. Barefoot as a social enterprise -- 7. Conclusion. |