An introduction to social entrepreneurship voices, preconditions, contexts / [electronic resource] : edited by Rafael Ziegler. - Cheltenham, U.K. ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, c2009. - 1 online resource (xiv, 252 p.) : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Return the lost water back to the continents / Michal Kravcik -- Taking responsibility : breaking away from hate and violence / Judy Korn -- Not about the number of seats in parliament : education for democracy and its places / Krzysztof Stanowski -- We call it work / Philipp Albers, Holm Friebe -- Schumpeter's full model of entrepreneurship : economic, non-economic and social entrepreneurship / Richard Swedberg -- The culture of management : self-interest, empathy and emotional control / Eva Illouz -- Forgotten antecedents : entrepreneurship, ideology and history / Rob Boddice -- New heroes, old theories? : toward a sociological perspective on social entrepreneurship / Ian Bogdan Vasi -- Social entrepreneurship in the UK : from rhetoric to reality? / Paola Grenier -- Entrepreneurship, sociality and art : re-imagining the public / Daniel Hjorth -- Hope for sustainable development : how social entrepreneurs make it happen / Christian Seelas, Johanna Mair.

This timely book sets social entrepreneurship in a historical context, from its philanthropic beginnings in the Victorian era to the present day, against the backdrop of contemporary global capitalism.

9781848446229 (e-book)

2008939771


Social entrepreneurship--History.


Electronic books.

HD60 / .I67 2009

361.00684