Social Innovation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. The Nature of Social Innovation

   1. The Nature of Social Innovation

      • Alex Nicholls, Alex Murdock

      Pages 1-30

3. Context and Frameworks

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31

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   2. The Theoretical Foundations of Social Innovation

      • Geoff Mulgan

      Pages 33-65

   3. Considering Context: Social Innovation in Comparative Perspective

      • Janelle A. Kerlin

      Pages 66-88

   4. The Loop, the Lens, and the Lesson: Using Resilience Theory to Examine Public Policy and Social Innovation

      • Michele-Lee Moore, Frances R. Westley, Ola Tjornbo, Carin Holroyd

      Pages 89-113

   5. The Limits of Economic Value in Measuring the Performance of Social Innovation

      • Michel Marée, Sybille Mertens

      Pages 114-136

4. Strategies and Logics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137

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   2. Social Innovation, Co-operation, and Competition: Inter-organizational Relations for Social Enterprises in the Delivery of Public Services

      • Fergus Lyon

      Pages 139-161

   3. Agency in Social Innovation: Putting the Model in the Model of the Agent

      • Kirsten Robinson, David Robinson, Frances Westley

      Pages 162-177

   4. The ‘Porcupine in the Room’: Socio-Religious Entrepreneurs and Innovators within the Framework of Social Innovation

      • Randy M. Ataide

      Pages 178-198

   5. Social Entrepreneurs in the Social Innovation Ecosystem

      • Heather Cameron

      Pages 199-220

5. Sustainability and Environmental Innovation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221

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   2. Social-Ecological Innovation and Transformation

      • Per Olsson, Victor Galaz

      Pages 223-247

   3. Green Technology Implementation in Developing Countries: Opportunity Identification and Business Model Design

      • Benedetto Cannatelli, Antonio G. Masi, Mario Molteni

      Pages 248-267

   4. When David Meets Goliath: Sustainable Entrepreneurship and the Evolution of Markets

      • Kai Hockerts, Rolf Wüstenhagen

      Pages 268-293

6. Back Matter

   Pages 294-302

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Focusing on social innovation broadly conceived in the context of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise in their global context this book is organised to address three of the most important themes in social innovation: strategies and logics, performance measurement and governance, and finally, sustainability and the environment.

• business
• Developing Countries
• entrepreneur
• Entrepreneurs
• Entrepreneurship
• innovation
• performance
• performance measurement
• strategy
• sustainability

ALEX NICHOLLS is the first tenured lecturer in social entrepreneurship appointed at the University of Oxford, UK. He published in a wide range of peer reviewed journals and books, including four sole authored papers in Financial Times Top 30 Journals and eight book chapters. His 2009 paper on social investment won the Best Paper Award (Entrepreneurship) at the British Academy of Management. In 2010, Nicholls edited a Special Edition of Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice on social entrepreneurship – the first time a top tier management journal had recognized the topic in this way. He is the General Editor of the Skoll Working Papers series and the Editor of the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship. 
ALEX MURDOCK Professor of Not for Profit Management and Leadership and Head of Centre for Government and Charity Management at London South Bank University, UK. The Centre is part of the Social Enterprise Cluster of the Third Sector Research Centre (funded by the Economic and Social Research Council UK). His research focused on the intersection of the public, private and third sectors. He is actively involved in charities and social enterprises as a trustee and board member. He has worked at The University of Paris (Sorbonne), France, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, and Brunel University, UK, and is Visiting Professor at two Norwegian Universities. He has degrees from the University of London, University ofMaryland, USA, and London Business School, UK. He qualified as a Probation Officer at University of Newcastle and worked in Social Work for 11 years.

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