Description

"Social Entrepreneurship" is 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.

Themed around the emerging agendas for developing new, sustainable models of social sector excellence and systemic impact, Social Entrepreneurship offers, for the first time, a wide-ranging, internationally-focused selection of cutting-edge work from leading academics, policy makers, and practitioners. Together they seek to clarify some of the ambiguity around this term, describe a range of social entrepreneurship projects, and establish a clear set of frameworks with which to understand it.

Included in the volume are contributions from Muhammad Yunus, the father of microfinance, Geoff Mulgan, former head of the British prime minister's policy unit, and Bill Drayton, founder of the Ashoka network of social entrepreneurs. Jeff Skoll, founder of the Skoll Foundation, and first president of eBay, provides a preface.

Features

• Examines the phenomenon of 'social entrepreneurship' as practised by grass-roots activists, NGOs, policy makers, international institutions, and corporations
• Seeks to address the ambiguity around the term 'social entrepreneurship' and develop clear frameworks to understand it
• International focus
• Contributions from leading academics, policy makers, and practitioners of social entrepreneurship, including Muhammad Yunus, Geoff Mulgan, and Bill Drayton
• Preface by Jeff Skoll, founder of eBay

Product Details

480 pages; ISBN13: 978-0-19-928387-3ISBN10: 0-19-928387-7

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