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Title The Search for Social Entrepreneurship
Published Brookings Institution Press 2008

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Description 1 online resource (313 pages)
Contents Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Information; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Declaring Assumptions; Building Sites; Creating Strategies; Exploring the Evidence; Selecting Cases; Comparing Activity; Drawing Conclusions; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; References; Further Reading; Index; Back Cover
Summary Research on social entrepreneurship is finally catching up to its rapidly growing potential. In The Search for Social Entrepreneurship, Paul Light explores this surge of interest to establish the state of knowledge on this growing phenomenon and suggest directions for future research. Light begins by outlining the debate on how to define social entrepreneurship, a concept often cited and lauded but not necessarily understood. A very elemental definition would note that it involves individuals, groups, networks, or organizations seeking sustainable change via new ideas on how governments, nonpr
Subject Nonprofit organizations -- Management
Social entrepreneurship.
Nonprofit organizations -- Management
Social entrepreneurship
Form Electronic book
Author Brainard, Lael.
Chollet, Derek.
ISBN 1282131168
9781282131163
9780815701590
0815701594