Title:
Introduction to social entrepreneurship : voices, preconditions, contexts / edited by Rafael Ziegler.
Contemporary issues.
Author:
Ziegler, Rafael.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Return the lost water back to the continents / Michal Kravcik -- Taking responsibility : breaking away from hate and violence / Judy Korn -- Not about the number of seats in parliament : education for democracy and its places / Krzysztof Stanowski -- We call it work / Philipp Albers, Holm Friebe -- Schumpeter's full model of entrepreneurship : economic, non-economic and social entrepreneurship / Richard Swedberg -- The culture of management : self-interest, empathy and emotional control / Eva Illouz -- Forgotten antecedents : entrepreneurship, ideology and history / Rob Boddice -- New heroes, old theories? : toward a sociological perspective on social entrepreneurship / Ian Bogdan Vasi -- Social entrepreneurship in the UK : from rhetoric to reality? / Paola Grenier -- Entrepreneurship, sociality and art : re-imagining the public / Daniel Hjorth -- Hope for sustainable development : how social entrepreneurs make it happen / Christian Seelas, Johanna Mair.
This timely book sets social entrepreneurship in a historical context, from its philanthropic beginnings in the Victorian era to the present day, against the backdrop of contemporary global capitalism. 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.
Publisher:
Edward Elgar,
Publication Place:
Cheltenham, UK. :
ISBN:
0857933728
9780857933720
Subject:
Social entrepreneurship -- History.
Sociology.
Social entrepreneurship.
Sociology.
History.
Contemporary issues.
Edition:
Pbk. ed.
Contents:
Return the lost water back to the continents / Michal Kravcik -- Taking responsibility : breaking away from hate and violence / Judy Korn -- Not about the number of seats in parliament : education for democracy and its places / Krzysztof Stanowski -- We call it work / Philipp Albers, Holm Friebe -- Schumpeter's full model of entrepreneurship : economic, non-economic and social entrepreneurship / Richard Swedberg -- The culture of management : self-interest, empathy and emotional control / Eva Illouz -- Forgotten antecedents : entrepreneurship, ideology and history / Rob Boddice -- New heroes, old theories? : toward a sociological perspective on social entrepreneurship / Ian Bogdan Vasi -- Social entrepreneurship in the UK : from rhetoric to reality? / Paola Grenier -- Entrepreneurship, sociality and art : re-imagining the public / Daniel Hjorth -- Hope for sustainable development : how social entrepreneurs make it happen / Christian Seelas, Johanna Mair.
Physical Description:
xiv, 252 pages ;
Publication Date:
2011, �2009.
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