Social Entrepreneurship
An Evidence-Based Approach to Creating Social Value
Chao Guo, Wolfgang Bielefeld
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Social Entrepreneurship
An Evidence-Based Approach to Creating Social Value
Chao Guo, Wolfgang Bielefeld
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Social entrepreneurship explained
Social entrepreneurship is a hot topic in public and non-profit management. Organizations everywhere are looking for innovative ways to respond to financial, social, and regulatory pressures. The next generation of transformative leaders will be risk takers who know how to face even the biggest challenges using market-driven strategies that get results. This book contains everything students and professionals need to know about the cutting-edge practice of social entrepreneurship.
In Social Entrepreneurship, you'll learn how to read markets and environments to identify opportunities for entrepreneurial activity. Then, the authors show to convert opportunities into successful ventures: one-time initiatives, ongoing programs and new, mission-driven organizations are all covered. Sector-specific strategies and recommendations guide readers directly to the techniques that will have the biggest impact.
- Employs an evidence-based approach to help organizations achieve goals more efficiently
- Offers advice on taking advantage of new technologies and untapped resources using the most current approaches
- Written by renowned experts in the field of social entrepreneurship
Authors Guo and Bielefeld have been instrumental in advancing the study of social entrepreneurship, and they understand the trends and currents in the field. They bring readers up to date and ready them to begin implementing changes that really make a difference. In non-profits and government, leadership is already becoming synonymous with social entrepreneurship, and this book is its foundation.
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Part One
Social Entrepreneurship: Concept and Context
Chapter One
The Many Faces of Social Entrepreneurship
WHAT IS SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP?
Author(s), Year | Definition |
Austin, Stevenson, & Wei-Skillern (2006)3 | Innovative, social value creating activity that can occur within or across the nonprofit, business, or government sectors (p. 2). |
Brinckerhoff (2000)4 | Social entrepreneurs have the following characteristics:
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Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship (2008)5 | Innovative and resourceful approaches to addressing social problems. These approaches could be pursued through for-profit, nonprofit, or hybrid organizations. |
Dees (1998)6 | Social entrepreneurs play the role of change agents in the social sector, by:
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Frumkin (2002)7 | Social entrepreneurs have a combination of the supply-side orientation and the instrumental rationale, providing a vehicle for entrepreneurship that creates enterprises that combine commercial and charitable goals (p. 130). |
Light (2006a)8 | A social entrepreneur is an individual, group, network, organization, or alliance of organizations that seeks sustainable, large-scale change through pattern-breaking ideas in what governments, nonprofits, and businesses do to address significant social problems or how they do it. |
Martin & Osberg (2007)9 | Social entrepreneurship has the following three components.
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Mort, Weerawardena, & Carnegie (2003)10 |
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Peredor & McLean (2006)11 | Social entrepreneurship is exercised where a person or group:
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Pomerantz (2003)12 | Social entrepreneurship can be defined as the development of innovative, mission-supporting, earned income, job creating or licensing ventures undertaken by individual social entrepreneurs, nonprofits, or nonprofits in association with for-profits (p. 25). |
Thompson, Alvy, & Lees (2000)13 | Social entrepreneurs are people who realize where there is an opportunity to satisfy some unmet need that the state welfare will not meet, and who gather together the necessary resources (generally people, often volunteers, money, and premises) and use these to “make a difference” (p. 328). |
Young (1986)14 | Nonprofit entrepreneurs are the innovators who found new organizations, develop and implement new programs and methods, organize and expand new services, and redirect the activities of faltering organizations (p. 162). |