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.
Preface,Jeff Skoll Introduction,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