Overview
- Offers a framework for social start-ups combining the micro and macro contexts
- Highlights the most important unexplored research themes within social entrepreneurship
- Combines theoretical insights with qualitative studies to offer a guide for practitioners and researchers
Part of the book series: Contributions to Management Science (MANAGEMENT SC.)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Social Entrepreneurship from a Micro Perspective
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Social Entrepreneurship from a Macro Perspective
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The Convergence of the Micro and Macro Perspective
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About this book
The rise of hybrid ventures is proof that another way of doing business is possible. Many developments in the last 15 years highlight the significance of social entrepreneurship: the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize to Grameen Bank, the efforts of scholars in studying social ventures, and the new academic programs at Ivy League universities, as well as the creation of indices such as the United Nations Human Development Index to measure non-economic issues. This book portrays these as strong indicators to support the development and sustenance of a market-based economy that also imbibes social progress and human values.
This book emphasizes that awareness of the conditions under which social start-ups emerge is crucial. The authors provide a thorough and empirical analysis of the emergence of social entrepreneurship using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data as well as case studies from practice. From the perspective of individuals, they examine the most important characteristics of social entrepreneurs, and from a macro perspective, social ventures are studied as agents of change. A handpicked collection of successful cases of social ventures also provides the reader with an awareness of the best practices.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
María Rodríguez-García is a professor and researcher in the Department of Business Management at the University of Valencia, Spain. She is currently pursuing her PhD at this same institution, and her research is about the establishment of the family council in family businesses. María has also conducted research on entrepreneurship, specifically eco-entrepreneurship social entrepreneurship. She is also involved in the SPRING project, financed by the European Union.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Emergence of Social Entrepreneurship
Book Subtitle: Individuals and Social Ventures as Agents of Change
Authors: Virginia Simón-Moya, María Rodríguez-García
Series Title: Contributions to Management Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80635-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80634-7Published: 10 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80637-8Published: 10 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-80635-4Published: 09 September 2021
Series ISSN: 1431-1941
Series E-ISSN: 2197-716X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 181
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations
Topics: Entrepreneurship, Education, general, Non-Profit Organizations and Public Enterprises