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Cover Rethinking the Social in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Rethinking the Social in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Edited by Beniamino Callegari, Bisrat A. Misganaw, and Stefania Sardo
Offering a comprehensive classification of the analytical approaches to the social within the fields of innovation and entrepreneurship studies, this book showcases a wide variety of perspectives and a collection of theoretical analysis tackling social complexity.
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Monograph Book
Published:
15 Mar 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839108174
Collection:
Business 2022
Cover Research Handbook of Women’s Entrepreneurship and Value Creation
Research Handbook of Women’s Entrepreneurship and Value Creation
Edited by Shumaila Yousafzai, Colette Henry, Monique Boddington, Shandana Sheikh, and Alain Fayolle
This Research Handbook highlights the importance of women as agents of change, acknowledging women entrepreneurs’ efforts and supporting their value-creation activities. With important implications for policymaking, contributing authors direct attention to and provide evidence for the positive contribution of women entrepreneurs to the economy, regardless of their businesses’ size and formal status.
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Handbook
Published:
04 Feb 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789901375
Collection:
Business 2022
Cover A Research Agenda for Social Innovation
A Research Agenda for Social Innovation
Edited by Jürgen Howaldt, Christoph Kaletka, and Antonius Schröder
This insightful Research Agenda offers unique perspectives into the different strands of social innovation research, covering the history and theory of this ever-growing research field. Chapters show the range and depth of the social advances that characterize this vibrant and contested subject, and analyse the strong increase in political and public interest in social innovation.
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Monograph Book
Published:
12 Nov 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789909357
Collection:
Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2021
Cover Peace Entrepreneurs and Social Entrepreneurship
Peace Entrepreneurs and Social Entrepreneurship
Life Stories from Israelis and Palestinians
Amalya Oliver-Lumerman, Tammar B. Zilber, Haneen S. Magadlah, Tammy Rubel-Lifschitz, and Yosepha Tabib-Calif
This timely book comprises detailed personal narratives of entrepreneurs who have worked towards peace in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. It begins by offering an innovative framework of analysis based on scientific knowledge about social entrepreneurs, defining ‘peace entrepreneurship’ and mapping its unique characteristics. It also explains the narrative methodology used, and provides a short history of the conflict in the region.
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Monograph Book
Published:
21 Sep 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789906295
Collection:
Business 2021
Cover Scaling the Social Enterprise
Scaling the Social Enterprise
Lessons Learned from Founders of Social Startups
Jennifer M. Walske, Elizabeth Foster, and Laura D. Tyson
Scaling the Social Enterprise is an ideal text for courses that focus on social entrepreneurship and social innovation, at either the graduate or undergraduate level. Common themes across high growth social startups discussed in the book include:   • building and modifying a management team for growth • creating and maintaining a dynamic stakeholder network • choosing corporate form and funders • moving from idea to pilot, to roll-out, and pivots along the way • the importance of media magic in building a brand • developing and refining one’s value chain • the pivotal role of technology in scaling   Featuring high profile, high growth social startups including Fair Trade USA, Revolution Foods, Sanergy, Kiva, d.light, Back to the Roots, and Grameen America, the chapter on funding social startups also profiles social funders such as Bridges Fund Management and Better Ventures, amongst others.
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Monograph Book
Published:
20 Jul 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788113724
Collection:
Business 2021
Cover Research Handbook of Sustainability Agency
Research Handbook of Sustainability Agency
Edited by Satu Teerikangas, Tiina Onkila, Katariina Koistinen, and Marileena Mäkelä
This innovative Research Handbook answers crucial questions about how individuals and organisations can make a difference towards sustainability. Offering an integrative perspective on sustainability agency, it reviews individual, active, organisational and relational forms of sustainability agency, demonstrating the capacity of individuals and organisations to act toward sustainable futures.
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Handbook
Published:
16 Jul 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789906035
Collection:
Business 2021
Cover Field Guide for Research in Community Settings
Field Guide for Research in Community Settings
Tools, Methods, Challenges and Strategies
Edited by M. R. Islam, Niaz A. Khan, Siti H.A.B. Ah, Haris A. Wahab, and Mashitah B. Hamidi
This insightful book offers practical advice to fieldworkers in social research, enabling robust and judicious applications of research methods and techniques in data collection. It also outlines data collection challenges that are commonly faced when working in the field.
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Monograph Book
Published:
07 May 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800376328
Collection:
Business 2021
Cover A Research Agenda for Social Finance
A Research Agenda for Social Finance
Edited by Othmar M. Lehner
This insightful Research Agenda explores social finance and impact investing, surveying the latest research in this area. It considers a range of actors from across the social finance ecosystem, from investors and social banks, to the entrepreneurs who propose sustainable solutions and seek finance.
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Monograph Book
Published:
04 May 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789907964
Collection:
Economics 2021
Cover World Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurship
World Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurship
Edited by Léo-Paul Dana
This second edition of a classic reference work, written by some of the most eminent academics in the field, contains over 30 per cent more entries on entrepreneurship. Comprehensive in scope, it includes topics from business angels, to export services to family business and uncertainty and venture capital. There are also entries on individuals including George Eastman, Howard Hughes, Joseph Schumpeter and Walt Disney. Providing its readers with a unique point of reference, as well as stimulus for further research, this Encyclopedia is an indispensable tool for anyone interested in entrepreneurship, particularly students, scholars and researchers.
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Encyclopedia
Published:
19 Jan 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839104145
Collection:
Business 2021
Cover Implementing Sustainable Development Goals in Europe
Implementing Sustainable Development Goals in Europe
The Role of Political Entrepreneurship
Edited by Charlie Karlsson and Daniel Silander
This unique book expertly analyses European political entrepreneurship in relation to the European Union’s approach towards the Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development strategy. It explores the role of European political entrepreneurs in shaping, influencing and realising the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. Chapters examine EU actors in the context of numerous development goals to assess how political entrepreneurship challenges traditional EU institutions and promotes visionary activity.
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Monograph Book
Published:
11 Sep 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789909975
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2020