Social entrepreneurship is constituted of various market initiatives aimed at balancing the economic objective achieved with the so-called social goals. These initiatives are both top-down (e.g. non-for-profit companies established as a result of public-private partnerships), mixed (e.g. student...

Social economy and social entrepreneurship are concepts subject of much debate in the academic environment, as their importance is growing in the present times, when the public sector and business environment alike have demonstrated their incapacity to solve specific social problems, such as...

David Bornstein`s How to Change the World is the first book to study a remarkable and growing group of individuals around the world--what Bornstein calls social entrepreneurs. These men and women are bringing innovative, and successful, grass-roots approaches to a wide variety of social and...

This text brings together the core business and management topics impacting on the strategy and operation of social enterprise organisations, and is therefore required knowledge for social entrepreneurs

The aim of this volume is to explore entrepreneurship and business from the perspective of Islamic principles, which are usually based on collaboration, teamwork, generosity and altruism. The contributions deal with the confluence of Islamic Principles with entrepreneurial and business ownership...

Preface -- Introduction -- Commons entrepreneurship -- Benefit corporations & associations -- From the platform deathstars to technology-enabled platform cooperativism -- Alternative currencies and place-based PCE -- The distributed autonomous organization -- Venture capital is dead in a PCE...