1st Edition

Case Studies in Social Entrepreneurship The oikos collection Vol. 4

Edited By Michael Pirson Copyright 2015
296 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge

289 Pages
by Routledge

This book is an essential resource for the increasing number of facilitators who wish to help students learn about the promise and pitfalls of social enterprise. The oikos-Ashoka case competition for social entrepreneurship was conceived in 2007 as a way to help find great material and case studies in this emerging field. This fourth collection of oikos case studies is based on the winning... Read more

Greeting Michael Pirson, Editor

List of contributors

Foreword Marina Kim, Executive Director, Ashoka U

Introduction Michael Pirson, Editor

Part 1: Socially-oriented enterprise cases – health and fair trade

1. Ndlovu: The clock ticks Charles Corbett and Sarang Deo

2. wellcome: Growth of a social enterprise Magdalena Kloibhofer

3. Madecasse: Competing with a 4x Fairtrade business model R. Scott Marshall, Darrell Brown, Bex Sakarias and Min Cai

Part 2: Ecologically oriented social enterprises

4. Bio-Vert: Green to what limit? Raymond Paquin, Catherine Bédard and Geneviève Grainger

5. TerraCycle  Jan Lepoutre

6. Tropical Salvage: From recession to expansion R. Scott Marshall, Lisa Peifer, Erin Ferrigno

7. Husk Power Systems: Lighting up the Indian rural lives Manish Agarwal and D. Satish

8. Better Place: Shifting paradigms in the automotive industry Dror Etzion and Jeroen Struben

Part 3: Corporate Social Entrepreneurship case studies

9. How to establish and manage a social business at the bottom of the pyramid: The case of OSRAM in Africa Pia von Nell

10. Vodafone's M-PESA (A): “Unusual innovation” — from a corporate social responsibility project to business model innovation Loic Sadoulet

About the oikos Case Writing Competition

ConceptList of the Award Committee Members

Short Biographies of the Award Committee Members

About oikos

About the authors

Biography

Michael Pirson