Social Innovation: Blurring Boundaries to Reconfigure Markets [Hardcover]

Focusing on social innovation broadly conceived in the context of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise in their global context this book is organised to address three of the most important themes in social innovation: strategies and logics, performance measurement and governance, and finally, sustainability and the environment.The Nature of Social Innovation PART I: CONTEXT AND FRAMEWORKS The Theoretical Foundations of Social Innovation Considering Context: Social Innovation and Social Enterprise in Comparative Perspective The Loop, the Lens, and the Lesson: Using Resilience Theory to Examine Public Policy and Social Innovation The Limits of Economic Value in Measuring the Performance of Social Innovation PART II: STRATEGIES AND LOGICS Social Innovation in the Delivery of Public Services: Social Enterprises: Cooperation and Competition Agency in Social Innovation: Putting the 'Model of the Model' in the Agent The 'Porcupine in the Room': Socio-Religious Entrepreneurs and Innovators Within the Framework of Social Innovation Social Entrepreneurs in a Social Innovation Ecosystem PART III: SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION Socio-Ecological Innovation and Transformation Green Technology Implementation in Developing Countries: Opportunity Identification and Business Model Design When David Meets Goliath: Sustainable Entrepreneurship and the Evolution of MarketsALEX NICHOLLS is the first tenured lecturer in social entrepreneurship appointed at the University of Oxford, UK. He published in a wide range of peer reviewed journals and books, including four sole authored papers in Financial Times Top 30 Journals and eight book chapters. His 2009 paper on social investment won the Best Paper Award (Entrepreneurship) at the British Academy of Management. In 2010, Nicholls edited a Special Edition of Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice on social entrepreneurship  the first time a top tier management journal hl3¬