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Values and opportunities in social entrepreneurship /

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"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"--

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hockerts, Kai, 1970-, Mair, Johanna, 1967-, Robinson, Jeffrey, 1971-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Subjects:
Social entrepreneurship.
Values.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General.
Table of Contents:
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  • 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 organizations; H. Douglas
  • PART II: RESOURCES FOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
  • Towards a Theory of Social Entrepreneurship; J. P. Eshun and J. A. Robinson
  • Is It Ever Better To Lend Than To Give? : A Social Embeddedness View Of Alternative Approaches to Poverty Alleviation; B. Victor and W. Lucas
  • PART III: DISCOVERY AND EXPLOITATION OF SOCIAL OPPORTUNITIES
  • Developing an Interactive Model of Social Entrepreneurship; C. Vurro and 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 and 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 and P. Tracey
  • The Thread of Inchoate Demand in Social Entrepreneurship; J. G. York, S. D. Sarasvathy and 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 and R. Stevens
  • Cases in Grassroots of Social Entrepreneurship; S. Maase and K. Dorst.