Social Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprises Nordic Perspectives

Social Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprises Nordic Perspectives

Migrant women stepping into ethnic catering; homeless men employed to take care of bees producing honey for sale; young people on the edge getting microcredit funding to start social businesses; or former criminals joining forces to create social and economic structures for an honest lifestyle. Thes...

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Other Authors: Anderson, Linda Lundgaard (Editor), Gawell, Malim (Editor), Spear, Roger (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Routledge Taylor & Francis Group 2016
Edition:Document : English
Series:Routledge Studies in Social Enterprise & Social Innovation
Subjects:
Social policy
Welfare state
Social entrepreneurship
Innovation
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / by Lars Hulgaard
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Social entrepreneurship and social enterprises in the Nordics : narratives emerging from
  • Social movements and welfare dynamics / Linda Lundgaard Andersen, Malin Gawell, and Roger Spear
  • Social entrepreneurship demolition of the welfare state or an arena for solidarity? / Linda Lundgaard Andersen and Lars Hulgaard
  • Social entrepreneurship and social enterprises : chameleons through times and values / Malin Gawell
  • Evolution of the social enterprise concept in Finland / Harri Kostilainen and Pekka Pottiniemi
  • Social enterprise as a contested terrain for definitions and practice : the case of Norway / Hans Abraham Hauge and Tora Mathea Wasvik
  • Practicing entrepreneuring and citizenship : social venturing as a learning context for university students / Bengt Johannisson
  • Employees as social intrapreneurs : active employee participation in social innovation / Catharina Juul Kristensen
  • The added value of social entrepreneurship in contemporary social design in Norway / Brita Fladvad Nielsen and Jonas Asheim
  • Social entrepreneurship : between Odysseus' scar and Abraham's sacrifice / Daniel Ericsson
  • Social entrepreneurship as collaborative processes in rural Sweden / Yvonne von Friedrichs and Anders Lundstrom
  • Microfinance as a case study of social entrepreneurship in Norway / Unni Beate Sekkesoeter
  • Social change through temporary short-term interventions : the role of legitimacy in organizing social innovation / Anders Edvik and Fredrik Bjork
  • Entrepreneurship invited into the (social) welfare arena / Malin Gawell, Elisabeth Sundin, and Malin Tillmar
  • Narratives of social enterprises : its construction, contradictions and implications in the Swedish debate / Ulrika Levander
  • Democratic innovations : exploring synergies between three key post-NPM concepts in public sector reforms / Victor Pestoff
  • About the authors
  • Index.

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