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Social Entrepreneurship

Leveraging Economic, Political, and Cultural Dimensions

  • New three dimensional perspective combining commercial, social and humanistic dimensions of entrepreneurship
  • Core focus on social entrepreneurship, its implementation and institutionalization
  • Overview of the existing knowledge of the area of social entrepreneurship and route map for future research?
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
  2. Rethinking Social Entrepreneurship

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Introduction

      • Anders Lundström, Chunyan Zhou
      Pages 3-22
    3. A Review of Social Entrepreneurship Research

      • Anne Pierre, Yvonne von Friedrichs, Joakim Wincent
      Pages 43-69
  3. Implementing Social Entrepreneurship

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
    2. Entrepreneurial Discovery and Asian Entrepreneurship in the UK

      • Spinder Dhaliwal, David Deakins
      Pages 93-111
    3. Corporate Social Responsibility in Family Versus Non-Family Enterprises: An Exploratory Study

      • Giovanna Campopiano, Alfredo De Massis, Lucio Cassia
      Pages 113-154
  4. The Institutionalization of Social Entrepreneurship

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219
    2. Improving Entrepreneurial Competency in Low-Income Segments: The Impact of Entrepreneurial Development Agents

      • René Díaz-Pichardo, Nicolás Gutiérrez, Juan Arriaga-Múzquiz
      Pages 221-237
    3. Entrepreneurship in Society: A Review and Definition of Community-Based Entrepreneurship Research

      • Anne Pierre, Yvonne von Friedrichs, Joakim Wincent
      Pages 239-257
    4. The Rise of Social Innovation Parks

      • Chunyan Zhou, Anders Lundström
      Pages 259-269
  5. The Future of Social Entrepreneurship

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 271-271
    2. Social Entrepreneurship, Gendered Entrepreneurship?

      • Malin Gawell, Elisabeth Sundin
      Pages 273-291

About this book

This contributed volume features state-of-the-art research from ten different countries on implementation, institutionalization and the future prospects of social entrepreneurship. This volume aims at bringing together research that considers the context of economy, politics and cultural issues combining with the needs of social and human development. By conceptualizing the notion of social entrepreneurship and societal entrepreneurship, this volume aims to disseminate the numerous streams of research and theory of social entrepreneurship to educators, libraries, scholars, non-profit researchers, public policy makers, practitioners, undergraduate and graduate students, and any organization or person interested in staying abreast of advances in this area. It is also an important reference book for teachers, students and faculty interested in conducting research or teaching social entrepreneurship. ​  

Editors and Affiliations

  • MidSweden University, Östersund, Sweden

    Anders Lundström, Yvonne von Friedrichs

  • MidSweden University, Shenyang, Beijing, People's Republic of China

    Chunyan Zhou

  • Linköpings University, Linköping, Sweden

    Elisabeth Sundin

About the editors

Anders Lundström has broad experience in coordinating international research projects and he has built-up the Swedish Foundation for Small Business Research and has founded the Swedish Award for Entrepreneurship Research. Professor Lundström has also developed the international research network Innovative Policy Research for Economic Growth (IPREG) and has chaired three large international conferences. He was the former President of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB). He is a full professor of Entrepreneurship and Small business at the Mid Sweden University in Östersund. Professor Lundström has also published international books and reports in the area of entrepreneurship, innovation and small business policies in different countries.

Chunyan Zhou is an academic leader (regional innovation and Science and Technology policy) of Shandong Academy of Sciences. She has participated in the RIPWATCH (EU Program) research project as the Country Correspondent for China. She has been active in joint research at Tsinghua University of China, and was a visiting scholar at Stanford University, and a visiting professor at Stony Brook University and Newcastle University. More recently she has worked with the International Institute of Triple Helix at LaSalle Innovation, Complutense University of Madrid and Mid Sweden University. She is also the founder and general manager of Tongxin Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Co. Ltd in Beijing.

Yvonne von Friedrichs is an associate professor of Business Administration. She has been a partner in the several EU funded projects in recent years: EU Objective 2- Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Business development; EU Interreg IIIc – Sustainable and Vocational Tourism; EU Leonardo Program – Vocational Enterprise Education and Training; EU Inerreg IIIc– Growth in Women Entrepreneurship; EU Interreg IVc– Ruraland Development Players

Elisabeth Sundin is a full professoremerita in business administration and management at Linköping University, Sweden. She is also one of the senior research leaders at HELIX, a Winn Excellence Centre on Managing Mobility for Learning, Health and Innovation where she is responsible for the research area on new forms of organizations and organizing. Sundin has previously been a professor also at the Jönköping International Business School and National Institute of Working Life (NIWL). Her main research area is organizational change in established as well as in new organizations related to entrepreneurship and innovations. She is currently leading a new research project on the elderly as entrepreneurs. Sundin has published a number of books, reports and articles both in Swedish and English.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Social Entrepreneurship

  • Book Subtitle: Leveraging Economic, Political, and Cultural Dimensions

  • Editors: Anders Lundström, Chunyan Zhou, Yvonne von Friedrichs, Elisabeth Sundin

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01396-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

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

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-01395-4Published: 27 November 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34585-7Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-01396-1Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 363

  • Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Entrepreneurship, Business Ethics, Innovation/Technology Management, Social Policy

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Softcover Book USD 219.99
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Hardcover Book USD 219.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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