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Social Entrepreneurship
Theory and Practice

  • Date Published: February 2012
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521149785
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  • Social Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice is about the creative ways in which social entrepreneurs solve pressing and insurmountable social problems. Theories of social change are presented to help demystify the 'magic' of making an immense, yet durable and irreversible, social impact. Utilizing case studies drawn from various fields and all over the world, the authors document how social entrepreneurs foster bottom-up change that empowers people and societies. They also review the specific personality traits of social entrepreneurs and introduce the new kind of leadership they represent. This book will be valuable to undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students, while remaining accessible to non-academic readers thanks to its clear language, illustrative case studies and guidelines on how to become a successful social entrepreneur.

    • Presents the concept of social entrepreneurship through the lenses of various theories such as dynamical systems theory, complexity and emergence theory, sociology and psychology, social networks analysis and theories of leadership
    • Documents the hypothesis that social entrepreneurs pursue their social mission through launching a bottom-up process and through building social capital
    • Links theory with diverse, colorful case studies from around the world, including photo documentation
    • Identifies and analyzes the specific personality traits of social entrepreneurs as compared to social activists and the average of the society
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    24th Jun 2014 by Nsha

    this book is really informative. i like this book very much.. i hope this is useful to everyone

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    • Date Published: February 2012
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521149785
    • length: 250 pages
    • dimensions: 226 x 150 x 18 mm
    • weight: 0.34kg
    • contains: 43 b/w illus.
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Part I. Social Entrepreneurship:
    1. Defining social entrepreneurship: an overview
    2. Dimensions of social entrepreneurship
    3. Identifying social entrepreneurship in practice
    Part II. The Dynamics of Social Change:
    4. Social change theories and dilemmas
    5. Equilibrium and complexity
    6. Theory of social emergence
    Part III. Social Capital Built by Social Entrepreneurs:
    7. Social capital
    8. Social networks: bedrock of social capital
    9. Personality traits that facilitate the building of social capital
    Part IV. A New Kind of Leadership:
    10. Social entrepreneurship: a dynamical account
    11. A new kind of leadership
    12. Addressing insurmountable problems and conflicts
    Epilogue: the past and the future.

  • Authors

    Ryszard Praszkier, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Poland
    Ryszard Praszkier, Ph.D., is a researcher at the University of Warsaw Complex Systems Research Center. His main field of interest involves the mechanisms of profound peaceful transitions, including social-change processes facilitated by social entrepreneurs, with a special focus on the role and properties of social networks supporting durable social change. Dr Praszkier has authored several academic publications regarding how social entrepreneurs find innovative ways to approach intractable conflicts. For more than 15 years, he has worked for Ashoka, Innovators for the Public, an international association that promotes social entrepreneurship in more than 70 countries.

    Andrzej Nowak, The Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities
    Andrzej Nowak, Ph.D., is a professor and lecturer at the Florida Atlantic University, University of Warsaw (where he is the co-founder of the Institute for Social Studies and a founding director of the Complex Systems Research Center), Columbia University in New York and the Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities (where he is the co-founder of the Institute of Social Psychology of Internet and Communication). Dr Nowak has written and contributed to a number of foundational theoretical books, monographs and articles in the fields of social psychology, dynamical social impact, social networks and dynamics of societal transition.

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