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Social Entrepreneurship

An Innovative Solution to Social Problems

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Editors:
  1. Meng Zhao

    1. Business School, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China

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  2. Jiye Mao

    1. Business School, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China

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  • Provides an original, theoretically rigorous and practically useful framework for defining and categorizing social enterprises
  • Supports and specifies the framework through rich case studies of ten leading social enterprises in China
  • Reveals various challenges and solutions for running a successful social enterprise in China
  • Practitioners will learn experience and lessons from the case studies. Academics can use the cases in different teaching contexts, and gain research inspirations from our framework and case studies. Policy makers, accreditation agencies, professional service providers, and institutional investors will learn to identify and evaluate promising social enterprises
  • Highly recommended by Professor Muhammad Yunus (Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2006) and several globally leading scholars and professionals in the area of social enterprise

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Social Enterprise Theoretical Framework

    • Meng Zhao
    Pages 1-27

  3. SharedHarvest: From CSA to Rural Revival

    • Yan Fu, Jingyue Xu, Jianying Wang
    Pages 29-55

  4. Xihaner Carwash: Dream Home for People with Intellectual Disabilities

    • Xiaoguang Li, Jianying Wang, Jingyue Xu, Qiang Wang
    Pages 57-79

  5. Chengdu Langli: Recreate a Society Adapted for the Elderly

    • Jianying Wang, Jingyue Xu, Xiaoguang Li, Qiang Wang, Yuyu Liu
    Pages 81-110

  6. DaddyLab: Let Good Money Drive Out Bad Money

    • Qiang Wang, Xiaoguang Li, Yanfang Xu, Zhuang Mi, Shuo Zhan
    Pages 111-130

  7. BeBetter Education: Introduce Financial Education to the Young People

    • Yunxia Feng, Jinfeng Cai
    Pages 131-148

  8. 0Fenbei: Helping the Poor People

    • Yanfang Xu, Jiwen Song, Kangtao Ye, Meng Zhao, Wei Wu
    Pages 149-170

  9. Dream Cycling: Guardian of the Spiritual Journey

    • Jingyue Xu, Jianying Wang, Yuyu Liu
    Pages 171-194

  10. Rice Donate: Good Behavior Leverage Public Welfare

    • Qiang Wang, Shuo Zhan, Yanfang Xu, Zhuang Mi
    Pages 195-216

  11. 123langlang: Help People with Dyslexia to Read Freely

    • Wei Wu, Jiwen Song, Yanfang Xu
    Pages 217-237

  12. Carbonstop: Carbon Management Innovation with Information Technology

    • Yuyu Liu, Yujia Zhai
    Pages 239-259
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About this book

This book incorporates theoretical framework and management cases in discussions on social enterprise in China. The authors look to address two fundamental questions about social enterprises in China that have been very controversial over the years. First, what is social enterprise? This book proposes a framework that defines Chinese social enterprises based on social entrepreneurship, and includes ten case studies for justification. Second, who are well-performed social enterprises with financial viability and proved social impact? The book describes in detail some of the leading social enterprises in China. It is aimed at a wide target audience. Practitioners will learn experience and lessons from the case studies. Academics can use the cases in different teaching contexts, and gain research inspirations from our framework and case studies. Policy makers, accreditation agencies, professional service providers, and institutional investors will learn to identify and evaluate promisingsocial enterprises.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Business School, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China

    Meng Zhao, Jiye Mao

About the editors

Meng Zhao,  a visiting associate professor at Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, and a senior research fellow at Nanyang Center for Emerging Markets. He was an associate professor at the Renmin Business School, and the founding director of Yunus Center for Social Business & Microfinance, Renmin University of China. He received his Ph.D. from the Said Business School, Oxford University. He was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University’s Philanthropy and Civil Society Research Center, and a visiting scholar at Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a cofounder of an Oxford-based nonprofit organization called Youth Business Development International. He is the founding member of the Beijing Initiative on Social Enterprise Development in China. He sits in the academic committee for the annual Global Social Business Academic Conference and serves on the editorial review board for Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal. His research on stakeholder management, corporate social responsibility and social entrepreneurship has appeared on Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Social Entrepreneurship,Business Horizons, Stanford Social Innovation Review, CEIBS Business Review, Financial Times, etc.




Ji-Ye Mao,  a Professor and Dean of the School of Business, Renmin University of China. His areas of research include managerial and behavioral issues in the adoption of information systems in general, and IT outsourcing management and digital transformation in particular. He is a leader and strong advocate in case-based and qualitative research in developing indigenous theories grounded in business administration in China. He is the Chairman of China Association for Information Systems (CNAIS), and the founding editor or Frontiers of Business Research in China. He holds a Ph.D in MIS from the University of British Columbia (1995), MBA from McGill University (1987), and B.Eng from Renmin University of China (1985). Previously he was a tenured professor at the University of Waterloo and a visiting faculty at the City University of Hong Kong.






Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Social Entrepreneurship

  • Book Subtitle: An Innovative Solution to Social Problems

  • Editors: Meng Zhao, Jiye Mao

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9881-4

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: China Renmin University Press and Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-9880-7Published: 20 January 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-9883-8Published: 21 January 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-9881-4Published: 19 January 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 259

  • Number of Illustrations: 77 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Entrepreneurship, Corporate Social Responsibility, Asian Business

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