Social Innovation: Blurring Boundaries to Reconfigure Markets

by A. Nicholls (Editor), A. Murdock (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349327355
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/14/2016
Edition description:	1st ed. 2012
Pages:	302
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

The Nature of Social Innovation PART I: CONTEXT AND FRAMEWORKS The Theoretical Foundations of Social Innovation Considering Context: Social Innovation and Social Enterprise in Comparative Perspective The Loop, the Lens, and the Lesson: Using Resilience Theory to Examine Public Policy and Social Innovation The Limits of Economic Value in Measuring the Performance of Social Innovation PART II: STRATEGIES AND LOGICS Social Innovation in the Delivery of Public Services: Social Enterprises: Cooperation and Competition Agency in Social Innovation: Putting the 'Model of the Model' in the Agent The 'Porcupine in the Room': Socio-Religious Entrepreneurs and Innovators Within the Framework of Social Innovation Social Entrepreneurs in a Social Innovation Ecosystem PART III: SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION Socio-Ecological Innovation and Transformation Green Technology Implementation in Developing Countries: Opportunity Identification and Business Model Design When David Meets Goliath: Sustainable Entrepreneurship and the Evolution of Markets