International Perspectives on Social Entrepreneurship

ISBN-13: 9780230543157 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 232 str.

Jeffrey Robinson; Johanna Mair; Kai Hockerts

Opis

Social entrepreneurship has become a global phenomenon. Drawing from the 2nd International Social Entrepreneurship Research Conference held in New York, this book provides an in-depth discussion of this vibrant area of research, explores its regional variation across continents, and looks at new theoretical perspectives.

Spis treści

Activist or Entrepreneur? An Identity-based Model of Social Entrepreneurship; S. V. K. Simms and J. Robinson Capturing the Performance of the Socially Entrepreneurial Organization: An Organizational Legitimacy Approach; A. Nicholls Long-Term Survivability of Social Ventures; Qualitative Analysis of External and Internal Explanations; M. Sharir A Research-Based Perspective of Social Entrepreneurship; H. Haugh Discrete Choices, Trade-Offs, and Advantages: Modelling Social Venture Opportunities and Intentions; N. Krueger, Jr. J. Kickul, L. K. Gundry, R. Verman and F. Wilson Social Entrepreneurship as Institution Building; J. Mair and I. Marti Social Entrepreneurship: An Asian Perspective; M. Lisa M. Dacanay Strategy in Social Enterprise of Business and Civil Society Organizations in Iberoamerica ; D. Arenas, J. Bruni, P. Márquez and A. Vernis Mechanisms for Supporting Social Entrepreneurship: A Case Study and Analysis of Israeli Incubator; V. J. Friedman

O autorze

DANIEL ARENAS is Associate Professor at ESADE Business School-Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain, where he teaches Business Ethics, Corporate Responsibility and Sociology. JOSEFINA BRUNI CELLI is Professor of Public Policy and Management at the Center for Public Policy of the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA), Caracas, Venezuela. MARIE LISA DACANAY is Associate Professor and faculty champion for social entrepreneurship at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) in the Philippines. LISA GUNDRY is Professor of Management at the Charles H. Kellstadt Graduate School of Business and Director of the Center for Creativity and Innovation at DePaul University in Chicago, where she teaches courses in Creativity in Business, and Entrepreneurship Strategy. VICTOR J. FRIEDMAN is Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior with a joint appointment in the Behavioral Sciences and Sociology-Anthropology at the Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel, Israel. HELEN HAUGH is Director of the MPhil Management at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. KAI HOCKERTS is Associate Professor at the Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, where he teaches "Social Entrepreneurship - Transforming the Non-profit Sector" and other courses. JILL KICKUL is on the faculty at New York University Stern School of Business, USA, where she has leadership responsibilities at the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship. MIRI LERNER is an Associate Professor at the Academic College of Tel-Aviv- Yaffo, The School of Management and Economics and is also a lecturer at the Faculty of Management, Tel-Aviv University, Israel. JOHANNA MAIR is Associate Professor of Strategic Management at IESE, the Business School of the University of Navarra in Barcelona, Spain where she teaches strategy and social entrepreneurship in the MBA program and executive programs and the PhD program. PATRICIA MÁRQUEZ is a professor at IESA's Center for Leadership and Organizations in Caracas, Venezuela. As IESA's Academic Dean from 2003 to 2005 she led two successful international accreditation processes and developed the participant-centered learning initiative. IGNASI MARTÍ is Assistant Professor of Strategy and Organization at EM Lyon business school in France. ALEX NICHOLLS is the first lecturer in social entrepreneurship appointed at the University of Oxford in England and was the first staff member of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. JEFFREY A. ROBINSON is Assistant Professor in the Management and Global Business department of the Rutgers Business School where he leads the school's urban entrepreneurship research and economic development initiatives. MOSHE SHARIR is an active director of the Institute for Immigration and Social Integration at Ruppin Academic Center, Israel, and is in charge of center policy and activities in civic engagement. SHALEI V. K. SIMMS is a doctoral candidate at Rutgers Business School in New Jersey, USA. ALFRED VERNIS is professor of Business Policy and Strategy at ESADE Business School, Spain. ROHIT VERMA is Associate Professor of service operations management at the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University, USA. FIONA WILSON is an instructor at the Simmons School of Management, Boston, USA, where she teaches in the MBA and Executive Education programs, and pursues research in social entrepreneurship. RONIT YITSHAKI is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Bar Ilan University, Israel.