Values and Opportunities in Social Entrepreneurship

Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 9
List of Appendix......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Notes on Contributors......Page 13
1 Introduction......Page 22
2 Social Entrepreneurship: Snapshots of a Research Field in Emergence......Page 27
Part I: Values in Social Entrepreneurship......Page 50
3 Religion and Social Entrepreneurship......Page 52
4 Vision and Values: The Relationship between the Visions and Actions of Social Entrepreneurs......Page 73
5 Divergent Orientations of Social Entrepreneurship Organizations......Page 92
Part II: Discovery and Exploitation of Social Opportunities......Page 118
6 Social Entrepreneurship: A Study on the Source and Discovery of Social Opportunities......Page 120
7 Entrepreneurial Opportunity Evaluation: A Discrete Choice Analysis of Financial and Social Entrepreneurial Opportunity Attributes......Page 142
8 The Thread of Inchoate Demand in Social Entrepreneurship......Page 162
Part III: Modelling the Social Venturing Process......Page 184
9 Developing an Interactive Model of Social Entrepreneurship......Page 186
10 Emerging Social Entrepreneurship: Exploring the Development Process......Page 202
Part IV: Strategic Perspectives in Social Entrepreneurship......Page 222
11 Strategic Partnerships: Results from a Survey of Development Trusts in the UK......Page 224
12 A Resource-Based View of Value Creation in Social Purpose Business Ventures......Page 242
13 The Functions of Performance Measurement in Social Entrepreneurship: Control, Planning and Accountability......Page 262
14 Is It Ever Better to Lend Than to Give? A Social Embeddedness View of Alternative Approaches to Poverty Alleviation......Page 294
Index......Page 316