| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 292 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: in the beginning was societal entrepreneurship -- PART I Positioning societal entrepreneuring as a sector-spanning phenomenon -- 2. Sectoral intertwining at the grass root level -- 3. Tracking the everyday practices of societal entrepreneuring -- 4. Narrating Astrid Lindgren's World as societal entrepreneurship -- PART II Penetrating societal entrepreneurship: dark and bright sides -- 5. Small business promotion and intermediating as societal entrepreneurship -- 6. Societal entrepreneurship contextualized: the dark and brightsides of Fair Trade7. Dark and bright effects of apolarized entrepreneurshipdiscourse ... and the prospects of transformation -- PART III Promoting societal entrepreneurship -- an educational perspective -- 8. Friends, feelings, and fantasy: the entrepreneurial approach as conceptualized by preschool teachers -- 9. Translating entrepreneurship into the education setting -- a case of societal entrepreneurship -- 10. Academic and non-academic education for societal entrepreneurship -- 11. Conclusions -- Index |
| Summary |
Most social ventures cross the boundaries between the private, the public and the non-profit/voluntary sectors, and this broad involvement of actors and intertwining of sectors makes the label 'societal' entrepreneurship more appropriate. Stating the importance of both the local and the broader societal context, the book reports close-up studies from a variety of social ventures. Generic themes include positioning societal entrepreneurship against other images of collective entrepreneurship, critically penetrating its assumptions and practices and proposing ways of promoting societal entrepren |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Social entrepreneurship.
|
|
Social responsibility of business.
|
|
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Entrepreneurship.
|
|
Social entrepreneurship
|
|
Social responsibility of business
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Berlgund, Karin.
|
|
Johannisson, Bengt, 1942-
|
|
Schwartz, Birgitta.
|
| ISBN |
9781781006337 |
|
1781006334 |
|
