Social Entrepreneurship: An Evidence-Based Approach To Creating Social Value

Strong research and evidence are key to the success of social entrepreneurship. The book provides a critical analysis of research on this complicated and rapidly evolving field. It then translates that research into a practical resource for social entrepreneurs to create social value within and across sectors. Taking an opportunity-centric view, the book offers an approach to understanding how to identify a social entrepreneurial opportunity, turn that opportunity into a viable program or organization, and measure the social impact created. It also presents a framework for managing the social intrapraneurial process in which innovative opportunities emerge and develop into new programs, services, and ventures in an existing organization. Additional topics include social entrepreneurship in the public sector, boundary-spanning social entrepreneurship, the role of new media, and much more.

CHAO GUO, PhD, is associate professor of nonprofit management in the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Guo is senior vice president of the International Council of Voluntarism, Civil Society, and Social Economy Researcher Associations and serves on several boards of directors and editorial boards. In 2008, he was selected as a recipient of the IDEA Award for research promise by the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management.

WOLFGANG BIELEFELD is professor emeritus at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the School of Philanthropy at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. He has taught at the University of Texas at Dallas, the University of Minnesota, and Stanford University. He has written many articles and books, including Managing Nonprofit Organizations and Nonprofit Organizations in an Age of Uncertainty.