Social Innovation: Blurring Boundaries to Reconfigure Markets

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
The Nature of Social Innovation....Pages 1-30
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
The Theoretical Foundations of Social Innovation....Pages 33-65
Considering Context: Social Innovation in Comparative Perspective....Pages 66-88
The Loop, the Lens, and the Lesson: Using Resilience Theory to Examine Public Policy and Social Innovation....Pages 89-113
The Limits of Economic Value in Measuring the Performance of Social Innovation....Pages 114-136
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Social Innovation, Co-operation, and Competition: Inter-organizational Relations for Social Enterprises in the Delivery of Public Services....Pages 139-161
Agency in Social Innovation: Putting the Model in the Model of the Agent....Pages 162-177
The ‘Porcupine in the Room’: Socio-Religious Entrepreneurs and Innovators within the Framework of Social Innovation....Pages 178-198
Social Entrepreneurs in the Social Innovation Ecosystem....Pages 199-220
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
Social-Ecological Innovation and Transformation....Pages 223-247
Green Technology Implementation in Developing Countries: Opportunity Identification and Business Model Design....Pages 248-267
When David Meets Goliath: Sustainable Entrepreneurship and the Evolution of Markets....Pages 268-293
Back Matter....Pages 294-302