An Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship

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Edward Elgar Publishing, Jan 1, 2011 - Business & Economics - 264 pages
Starting with contributions from social entrepreneurs and innovators, this anthology describes the workings of social entrepreneurship and explores its import as a gauge of contemporary social, environmental and economic conditions. Drawing on perspective
 

Contents

voices preconditions contexts
1
PART I Voices
19
2 Return the lost water back to the continents
21
breaking away from hate and violence
33
education for democracy and its places
53
5 We call it work
64
PART II Preconditions
75
economic noneconomic and social entrepreneurship
77
entrepreneurship ideology and history
133
PART III Contexts
153
9 New heroes old theories? Toward a sociological perspective on social entrepreneurship
155
from rhetoric to reality?
174
reimagining the public
207
how social entrepreneurs make it happen
228
Index
247
Copyright

selfinterest empathy and emotional control
107

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Edited by Rafael Ziegler, Professor, Department of Management, HEC Montreal and Director, Institut International des Coopératives Dorismène et Alphonse Desjardins, Montreal, Canada

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