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Book SynopsisSocial entrepreneurs are change makers that aim to solve societyâs unsolved problems. Not surprisingly, social entrepreneurship has thus created high expectations. To better understand the potential as well as the limitations of social entrepreneurship, however, a more nuanced approach is needed in two ways.
First, social entrepreneurship is a multi-level phenomenon. It spans macro-level questions as well as meso-level questions and, finally, micro-level questions. If we really want to understand social entrepreneurship, we need to bring together all three levels of analysis and see how they are connected.
Second, while social entrepreneurship can certainly produce socially desirable outcomes, we also need a critical perspective to capture potential undesirable effects that social entrepreneurship can cause, often unintendedly, in society, in markets, in organizations, and for individuals. To this end, an ethical perspective can help complement the positi
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction – Why Social Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics?
Part I: Social Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics – The Foundations
Chapter 2: What is Social Entrepreneurship (not)?
Chapter 3: Refining our Ethical Perspective on the Light and Shadows in Social Entrepreneurship: The Concept of Normative Ambivalence
Part II: Society, Economy and Social entrepreneurship – A Macro perspective
Chapter 4: The Societal Function of Social Entrepreneurship – Innovating in the Voids between Market and State
Chapter 5: From Informal Economies to Welfare States: Social Entrepreneurship in Different Macro-level Contexts
Part III: Social Entrepreneurship, Organizations, and Management – A Meso Perspective
Chapter 6: Social Mission and Hybrid Resources: Business Models in Social Entrepreneurship
Chapter 7: Measuring Impact – Blessing or Curse?
Chapter 8: Scaling Social Ventures – Growing the Limits or Limiting Growth?
Part IV: Social Entrepreneurship and the Micro-Level
Chapter 9: Social Mission, Agency, and Calling – The Impact on Individuals within and around Social Ventures
Chapter 10: Personality Traits, Abilities, and Intention: Can Mission-driven Venturing be Taught?
Chapter 11: Narratives, Hagiographies, and Future Perspectives
