New Strategies for Social Innovation - Market-Based Approaches for Assisting the Poor

This book is the first to assess emerging market-based social change approaches comparatively, focusing specifically on social entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, fair trade, and private sustainable development

List of contents

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction to Market-Oriented Social Development Approaches
2. Developing Social Change Models
3. Corporate Social Responsibility
4. Social Entrepreneurship
5. Private Sustainable Development
6. Fair Trade
7. Market-Based Social Change Models: Reflections on Strengths, Limitations, and Directions for Social Change Advocates
Notes
References
Index

About the author

Steven G. Anderson is professor and director of the School of Social Work at Michigan State University. He received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan and has served as a Fulbright Scholar in China. His research interests focus on strategies for improving the well-being of the poor.

Summary

This book is the first to assess emerging market-based social change approaches comparatively, focusing specifically on social entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, fair trade, and private sustainable development

Product details

• Authors: Steven (Director and Professor Anderson, Steven G Anderson, Steven G. Anderson
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.08.2014
• EAN: 9780231159234
• ISBN: 978-0-231-15923-4
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; Business, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, POLITICAL SCIENCE / NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, Social Work