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Over the past few years social entrepreneurship has grown as a research field. In this 3rd volume in the series, contributions explore questions of values in social entrepreneurship as well as the identification and exploitation of social venturing opportunities.
List of contents
Introduction PART I: VALUES IN SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP Vision and Values: the Relationship between the Visions and Actions of Social Entrepreneurs; P.Grenier Religion and Social Entrepreneurship; R.Spear Divergent Orientations in Social Entrepreneurship Irganizations; H.Douglas PART II: RESOURCES FOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP Towards a Theory of Social Entrepreneurship; J.P.Eshun & J.A.Robinson Is It Ever Better To Lend Than To Give?: A Social Embeddedness View of Alternative Approaches to Poverty Alleviation; B.Victor & W.Lucas PART III: DISCOVERY AND EXPLOITATION OF SOCIAL OPPORTUNITIES Developing an Interactive Model of Social Entrepreneurship; C.Vurro & F.Perrini Social Entrepreneurship: A Study on the Source and Discovery of Social Opportunities; J.Monllor Entrepreneurial Opportunity Evaluation: A Discrete Choice Analysis of Financial and Social Entrepreneurial Opportunity Attributes; B.R.Smit, J.Kickul & F.Wilson PART IV: STRATEGIC SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP The Function of Metrics in Social Entrepreneurship: Control, Accountability, or Innovation? A.Nicholls Strategic Partnerships: Results from a Survey of Development Trusts in the UK; H.Haugh, M.Di Domenico & P.Tracey The Thread of Inchoate Demand in Social Entrepreneurship; J.G.York, S.D.Sarasvathy & A.Larson Social Entrepreneurship: Snapshots of a Research Field in Emergence; G. Desa PART V: A Resource-based View of Value Creation in Social Purpose Business Ventures; N.Moray & R.Stevens Cases in Grassroots of Social Entrepreneurship; S.Maase & K.Dorst
About the author
GEOFF DESA Assistant Professor of Management at San Francisco State University, USA
MARIA LAURA DI DOMENICO Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour at the Open University Business School, UK
KEES DORST Professor of Design and Associate Dean Research at the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building of the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
HEATHER DOUGLAS Doctorate Candidate at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia
PAOLA GRENIER
HELEN HAUGH Senior Lecturer in Community Enterprise at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK
JILL R. KICKUL Director of the Stewart Satter Program in Social Entrepreneurship, New York University Stern's Berkley Centre for Entrepreneurial Studies, USA
SIMONE MAASE Consultant for Emerging Social Entrepreneurship at GreenWish, The Netherlands
JAVIER MONLLOR Doctoral Candidate in the Marketing and Entrepreneurship Department, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
NATHALIE MORAY is Assistant Professor in Management at University College Ghent, Belgium
FRANCESCO PERRINI Professor of Management& CSR and SIF Chair of Social Entrepreneurship, the Institute of Strategy, Department of Management of Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
BRETT R. SMITH Assistant Professor and the Founding Director, Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Miami University, USA
ROGER SPEAR Chair of the ICA Research Committee
PAUL TRACEY Lecturer in Organizational Behavior at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK
CLODIA VURROPhD Candidate of Business Administration and Management, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
FIONA WILSON Instructor, Simmons College School of Management, Boston, USA
JEFFREY G. YORK PhD Candidate in Management and Research Assistant, the Batten Institute, University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, USA
Summary
Over the past few years social entrepreneurship has grown as a research field. In this 3rd volume in the series, contributions explore questions of values in social entrepreneurship as well as the identification and exploitation of social venturing opportunities.
