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Social Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprises: Nordic Perspectives book cover

1st Edition

Social Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprises Nordic Perspectives

Edited By Linda Lundgaard Andersen, Malin Gawell, Roger Spear Copyright 2017
300 Pages
by Routledge

300 Pages
by Routledge

300 Pages
by Routledge
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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. These initiatives capture the transformative power of social enterprise and might indicate how social... Read more

1. Social Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprises in the Nordics: Narratives Emerging From Social Movements and Welfare Dynamics
Linda Lundgaard Andersen, Malin Gawell, and Roger Spear

2. Social Entrepreneurship Demolition of the Welfare State or an Arena for Solidarity?
Linda Lundgaard Andersen and Lars Hulgård

3. Social Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprises: Chameleons through Times and Values
Malin Gawell

4. Evolution of the Social Enterprise Concept in Finland
Harri Kostilainen and Pekka Pättiniemi

5. Social Enterprise as a Contested Terrain for Definitions and Practice: The Case of Norway
Hans Abraham Hauge and Tora Mathea Wasvik

6. Practicing Entrepreneuring and Citizenship: Social Venturing as a Learning Context for University Students
Bengt Johannisson

7. Employees as Social Intrapreneurs: Active Employee Participation in Social Innovation
Catharina Juul Kristensen

8. The Added Value of Social Entrepreneurship in Contemporary Social Design in Norway
Brita Fladvad Nielsen and Jonas Asheim

9. Social Entrepreneurship: Between Odysseus’ Scar and Abraham’s Sacrifice
Daniel Ericsson

10. Social Entrepreneurship as Collaborative Processes in Rural Sweden
Yvonne von Friedrichs and Anders Lundström

11. Microfinance as a Case Study of Social Entrepreneurship in Norway
Unni Beate Sekkesæter

12. Social Change Through Temporary Short-term Interventions: The Role of Legitimacy in Organizing Social Innovation
Anders Edvik and Fredrik Björk

13. Entrepreneurship Invited into the (Social) Welfare Arena
Malin Gawell, Elisabeth Sundin, and Malin Tillmar

14. Narratives of Social Enterprises: Its Construction, Contradictions and Implications in the Swedish Debate
Ulrika Levander

15. Democratic Innovations: Exploring Synergies between Three Key Post-NPM Concepts in Public Sector Reforms
Victor Pestoff

Biography

Linda Lundgaard Andersen is a Professor in Learning, Evaluation and Social Innovation at Roskilde University, Denmark.

Malin Gawell is an Associate Professor in Business Administration at Södertörn University, Sweden.

Roger Spear is a Professor of Social Entrepreneurship teaching Organizational Systems and Research Methods at the Open University, UK.

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