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Social Innovation : Blurring Boundaries to Reconfigure Markets / edited by A. Nicholls, A. Murdock.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Small business.
- Strategic planning.
- Leadership.
- Technological innovations.
- Entrepreneurship.
- New business enterprises.
- Development economics.
- International economic relations.
- Small Business.
- Business Strategy and Leadership.
- Innovation and Technology Management.
- Development Economics.
- International Economics.
- Local Subjects:
- Small Business.
- Business Strategy and Leadership.
- Innovation and Technology Management.
- Entrepreneurship.
- Development Economics.
- International Economics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2012.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Focusing on social innovation broadly conceived in the context of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise in their global context this book is organised to address three of the most important themes in social innovation: strategies and logics, performance measurement and governance, and finally, sustainability and the environment.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface; About the Editors; About the Contributors; The Nature of Social Innovation; Part I: Context and Frameworks; 1 The Theoretical Foundations of Social Innovation; 2 Considering Context: Social Innovation in Comparative Perspective; 3 The Loop, the Lens, and the Lesson: Using Resilience Theory to Examine Public Policy and Social Innovation; 4 The Limits of Economic Value in Measuring the Performance of Social Innovation; Part II: Strategies and Logics
- 5 Social Innovation, Co-operation, and Competition: Inter-organizational Relations for Social Enterprises in the Delivery of Public Services6 Agency in Social Innovation: Putting the Model in the Model of the Agent; 7 The 'Porcupine in the Room': Socio-Religious Entrepreneurs and Innovators within the Framework of Social Innovation; 8 Social Entrepreneurs in the Social Innovation Ecosystem; Part III: Sustainability and Environmental Innovation; 9 Social-Ecological Innovation and Transformation
- 10 Green Technology Implementation in Developing Countries: Opportunity Identification and Business Model Design11 When David Meets Goliath: Sustainable Entrepreneurship and the Evolution of Markets; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230367098
- 1349327352
- 9781283867092
- 1283867095
- 9781349327355
- 0230367097
- 9780230280175
- OCLC:
- 818128838
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