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Upon completing this chapter, you should be able to accomplish the following:
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Understand the evolution and historical background of social entrepreneurship.
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Understand the role of social entrepreneurship in societies, economies and politics.
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Get first insights into social entrepreneurship research.
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Keywords
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Market Orientation
- Social Enterprise
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Social Entrepreneur
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Further Reading
Bornstein, D. and Davis, S. (2010), Social entrepreneurship: what everyone needs to know, Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford.
Dacin, P.A., Dacin, M.T. and Matear, M. (2010), “Social Entrepreneurship: Why We Don’t Need a New Theory and How We Move Forward From Here”, in Academy of Management Perspectives, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 37–57.
Dees, J.G. (2010), Creating Large-Scale Change: Not ‘Can’ But ‘How’, What Matters, McKinsey & Company, New York.
Nicholls, A. (ed.) (2006), Social Entrepreneurship. New Models of Sustainable Social Change, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Nicholls, A. (2010), “The Legitimacy of Social Entrepreneurship: Reflexive Isomorphism in a Pre- Paradigmatic Field”, in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, vol. 34, issue 4, pp. 611–633.
Zahra, S.A., Gedajlovic, E., Neubaum, D.O. and Shulman, J.M (2009), “A typology of social entrepreneurs: Motives, search processes and ethical challenges”, in Journal of Business Venturing, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 519–532.
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Volkmann, C., Tokarski, K., Ernst, K. (2012). Background, Characteristics and Context of Social Entrepreneurship. In: Volkmann, C., Tokarski, K., Ernst, K. (eds) Social Entrepreneurship and Social Business. Gabler Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8349-7093-0_1
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