Values and opportunities in social entrepreneurship
By: edited by Kai Hockerts, Johanna Mair, Jeffrey Robinson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230216686
Subjects: Social entrepreneurship; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship; Values; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General
Description: "Over the past years social entrepreneurship has grown as a research field. In this third edited volume we have collected contributions studying particularly questions of values in Social Entrepreneurship as well as the identification and exploitation of Social Venturing Opportunities"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; title: PART I: VALUES IN SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP; title: Vision and Values: the relationship between the visions and actions of social entrepreneurs; P. Grenier; title: Religion and Social Entrepreneurship; R. Spear; title: Divergent orientations in social entrepreneurship organizations; H. Douglas; title: PART II: RESOURCES FOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP; title: Towards a Theory of Social Entrepreneurship; J. P. Eshun and J. A. Robinson; title: Is It Ever Better To Lend Than To Give? : A Social Embeddedness View Of Alternative Approaches to Poverty Alleviation; B. Victor and W. Lucas; title: PART III: DISCOVERY AND EXPLOITATION OF SOCIAL OPPORTUNITIES; title: Developing an Interactive Model of Social Entrepreneurship; C. Vurro and F. Perrini; title: Social entrepreneurship: A study on the source and discovery of social opportunities; J. Monllor; title: Entrepreneurial Opportunity Evaluation: A Discrete Choice Analysis of Financial and Social Entrepreneurial Opportunity Attributes; B. R. Smit, J. Kickul and F. Wilson; title: PART IV: STRATEGIC SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP; title: The Function of Metrics in Social Entrepreneurship: Control, Accountability, or Innovation? A. Nicholls; title: Strategic Partnerships: Results from a Survey of Development Trusts in the UK; H. Haugh, M. Di Domenico and P. Tracey; title: The Thread of Inchoate Demand in Social Entrepreneurship; J. G. York, S. D. Sarasvathy and A. Larson; title: Social Entrepreneurship: Snapshots of a Research Field in Emergence; G. Desa; title: PART V:; title: A resource-based view of value creation in social purpose business ventures; N. Moray and R. Stevens; title: Cases in Grassroots of Social Entrepreneurship; S. Maase and K. Dorst.