Synopses & Reviews
"Social Entrepreneurship" is a term that has come to be applied to the activities of grass-roots activists, NGOs, policy makers, international institutions, and corporations, amongst others, which address a range of social issues in innovative and creative ways.
Themed around the emerging agendas for developing new, sustainable models of social sector excellence and systemic impact, Social Entrepreneurship offers, for the first time, a wide-ranging, internationally-focused selection of cutting-edge work from leading academics, policy makers, and practitioners. Together they seek to clarify some of the ambiguity around this term, describe a range of social entrepreneurship projects, and establish a clear set of frameworks with which to understand it.
Included in the volume are contributions from Muhammad Yunus, winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize and the father of microfinance, Geoff Mulgan, former head of the British prime minister's policy unit, and Bill Drayton, founder of the Ashoka network of social entrepreneurs. Jeff Skoll, founder of the Skoll Foundation, and first president of eBay, provides a preface. Alex Nicholls provides a substantial new preface to this paperback edition, reflecting on the latest developments in the study and practice of social entrepreneurship.
Synopsis
This study examines "Social Entrepreneurship," a term that has come to be applied to the activities of grass-roots activists, NGOs, policy makers, international institutions, and corporations, amongst others, which address a range of social issues in innovative and creative ways.
About the Author
Dr. Alex Nicholls originally trained in medieval hagiography and lexicography, but has more recently converted a lifelong passion for social justice and societal innovation into an academic focus on social entrepreneurship. As a writer, researcher, and consultant, he has been actively involved with
social entrepreneurs for more than ten years. Nicholls has published a major research book on Fair Trade as well as a range of academic journal articles on the relationship between business, society, and social innovation. He is a regular speaker at international conferences and policy workshops.
Having previously held posts at four other universities, Nicholls is currently the University Lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship at the Skoll Centre for
Social Entrepreneurship, University of Oxford, where he leads the development of several research projects and teaches a range of social entrepreneurship courses.
Table of Contents
Preface,
Jeff SkollIntroduction, Alex Nicholls
Part I: New Contexts
1. Social Business Entrepreneurs are the Solution, Muhammad Yunus
2. The Citizen Sector Transformed, William Drayton
3. For What It's Worth: Social Value and the Future of Social Entrepreneurship, Rowena Young
4. Cultivating the Other Invisible Hand of Social Entrepreneurship: Comparative Advantage, Public Policy, and Future Research Priorities, Geoff Mulgan
Part II: New Theories
5. Social Entrepreneurship: The Structuration of a Field, Alex Nicholls and Albert Cho
6. Social Entrepreneurship: Agency in a Globalising World, Paolo Grenier
7. Rhetoric, Reality, and Research: Building a Solid Foundation for the Practice of Social Entrepreneurship, Beth Battle Anderson and J. Gregory Dees
8. Social Entrepreneurship: It's For Corporations, Too, James E. Austin, Herman B. Leonard, Ezequiel Reficco, and Jane Wei-Skillern
9. Social Entrepreneurship: Exploring a Cultural Mode Amidst Others in the Church of England, Doug Foster
Part III: New Models
10. Social Enterprise Models and Their Mission and Money Relationships, Sutia Kim Alter
11. The Socially Entrepreneurial City, Charles Leadbeater
12. Helping People is Difficult: Growth and Performance in Social Enterprises Working for International Relief and Development, Alex Jacobs
13. The Social Entrepreneurship Collaboratory (SE Lab): A University Incubator for a Rising Generation of Social Entrepreneurs, Gordon M. Bloom
Part IV: New Directions
14. Wayfinding without a Compass: Philanthropy's Changing Landscape and its Implications for Social Entrepreneurs, Sally Osberg
15. Delivering on the Promise of Social Entrepreneurship: Challenges Faced in Launching a Global Social Capital Market, Pamela Hartigan
16. Social Entrepreneurship: The Promise and the Perils, Jerr Boschee
17. Moving Ahead Together: Implications of a Blended Value Framework for the Future of Social Entrepreneurship, Jed Emerson
Endnote, Alex Nicholls