Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Format:Paperback
Publisher:SAGE Publications Inc
Published:21st Apr '22
Should be back in stock very soon
Mission-driven ventures have the power to change the world and solve today’s most pressing social problems. Social Entrepreneurship equips students with the theories, models, tools, and templates they need to generate ideas and shape opportunities into impactful social enterprises. Author Carole Carlson uses a variety of real-world examples, cases, and profiles to illustrate how entrepreneurs around the world are changing their communities. Exercises allow students to practice developing their entrepreneurial skillset as they learn the fundamentals of structuring, financing, marketing, and scaling social ventures. Whatever social cause your students are passionate about, they will find Social Entrepreneurship a vital resource for making their vision a reality.
A thorough introductory handbook to what social entrepreneurship is and what it takes to run a social venture. -- Jason Brennan * Draft Chapter Review *
A solid primer on social entrepreneurship and the first comprehensive text that I have found. -- Caroline E.W. Glackin * Draft Chapter Review *
This text takes a fresh approach to social entrepreneurship, focusing on the theoretical applications. -- Timothy F. Burke * Draft Chapter Review *
[Social Entrepreneurship] is complete. Other texts have a very biased smathering of topics which reflect the building of the subject area as an academic course. The textbook shows evidence of consolidation of the subject area and that the area as a whole is settling into social entrepreneurship as a theory. -- Tammi C. Redd * Draft Chapter Review *
[Social Entrepreneurship] is a student-focused text that will be easy to read and easy to teach. [The text] provides a great introduction and overview to build upon in class and to have other readings complement for your undergrads. -- Adela Z. Ghadimi * Draft Chapter Review *
A social entrepreneurship textbook that is theory rich. -- Sarah Kimakwa * Draft Chapter Review *
The book does a nice job with team building and ecosystem, and has some interesting class exercises. -- Steve Rundle * Draft Chapter Review *
[The text] is well organized and structured with good cases. -- Marcus D. Harris * Draft Chapter Review *
[Social Entrepreneurship] is simple to read, hands-on-activity oriented, good balance of theoretical content & cases. -- Angeline Nariswari * Draft Chapter Review *
Easy to read, full of real-life stories and examples, with great application exercises and cases - all in one place! -- Inessa Korovyakovskaya * Draft Chapter Review *
A decent primer on social entrepreneurship with lots of examples and cases. -- Justin Gandy * Draft Chapter Review *
This book serves as a beginner level guide to social entrepreneurship likely best used in an undergraduate course. It is clearly written
and straight forward and appears to hit all the basics. It also provides strong student exercises. -- Janelle Kerlin * Draft Chapter Review *
This is an extremely useful textbook that presents information in a logical and well formatted way, which is conducive to learning. Each
chapter includes a glossary of terms to help reinforce student understanding and draw attention to the most important concepts, a
profile of a successful social entrepreneur, and a mini case study. There are also very helpful questions that will guide deeper
consideration of the topics presented and application of knowledge gained. The book is very user friendly. -- Veronica Gutierrez * Draft Chapter Review *
This is a very good overview of social entrepreneurship that guides students through consideration of what these are, how they are
established, how they operation (or can operate), and how to assess their impact. The book provides a lot of insightful and engaging
cases and examples. In addition there are a number of useful exercises to provide experiential learning for students in developing
skills to support each aspect of social venturing. -- Tom J. Sanders * Draft Chapter Review *
This is a great book for introduction to social entrepreneurship. -- Justin Peart * Draft Chapter Review *
ISBN: 9781071811597
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 610g
360 pages