Social Enterprises

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Benjamin Gidron, Yeheskel Hasenfeld

      Pages 1-15

3. Theoretical Approaches

   1. Front Matter

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   2. The State of Theory and Research on Social Enterprises

      • Dennis R. Young

      Pages 19-46

   3. Social Enterprises and Social Categories

      • Joseph Galaskiewicz, Sondra N. Barringer

      Pages 47-70

   4. Conceptions of Social Enterprise in Europe: A Comparative Perspective with the United States

      • Jacques Defourny, Marthe Nyssens

      Pages 71-90

   5. Defining Social Enterprise across Different Contexts: A Conceptual Framework Based on Institutional Factors

      • Janelle A. Kerlin

      Pages 91-117

4. Empirical Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119

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   2. Managing Conflicting Institutional Logics: Social Service versus Market

      • Eve Garrow, Yeheskel Hasenfeld

      Pages 121-143

   3. The Phenomenon of Social Businesses: Some Insights from Israel

      • Benjamin Gidron, Inbal Abbou

      Pages 144-161

   4. Social Enterprise in Mixed-Form Fields: Challenges and Prospects

      • Paul-Brian McInerney

      Pages 162-184

   5. Chasing the Double-Bottom Line: Fair Trade and the Elusive Win—win

      • Curtis Child

      Pages 185-197

   6. Mission Control: Examining the Institutionalization of New Legal Forms of Social Enterprise in Different Strategic Action Fields

      • Kate Cooney

      Pages 198-221

   7. Postscript: The Legitimacy of Social Entrepreneurship: Reflexive Isomorphism in a Pre-paradigmatic Field

      • Alex Nicholls

      Pages 222-247

5. Back Matter

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Presents an organizational perspective of social enterprises, which allows us to analyze issues such as their governing structure, their modes of operation and their marketing strategies, and to begin to formulate some theoretical constructs on how these entities can survive and thrive.

• business
• entrepreneur
• Entrepreneurs
• entrepreneurship
• marketing
• organization
• organizations
• service
• strategy
• trade

• Israeli Social Enterprise Research Center, Beit Berl Academic College, Israel

  Benjamin Gidron

• UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, USA

  Yeheskel Hasenfeld

INBAL ABBOU PhD Candidate at the Guilford Glazer School of Business Management in Ben Gurion University, Israel SONDRA N. BARRINGER PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Arizona, USA CURTIS CHILD Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Brigham Young University, USA KATE COONEY Assistant Professor at the Boston University School of Social Work, USA JACQUES DEFOURNY Full Professor of economics at HEC Management School, University of Liege, Belgium JOSEPH GALASKIEWICZ Professor of Sociology and has a courtesy appointment in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona, USA EVE GARROW Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work, USA JANELLE A. KERLIN Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Management and Policy at Georgia State University, USA PAUL-BRIAN MCINERNEY Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA ALEX NICHOLLS the first tenured Lecturer in social entrepreneurship appointed at the University of Oxford, UK MARTHE NYSSENS Full Professor at the Department of Economics of the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium STEVEN RATHGEB SMITH Nancy Bell Evans Professor of Public Affairs at the Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, USA DENNIS R. YOUNG Bernard B. and Eugenia A. Ramsey Professor of Private Enterprise in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University,USA

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