TY - BOOK
T1 - Learning about Social Entrepreneurship and Management in Times of Social Transformation
A2 - Langergaard, Luise Li
A2 - Dupret, Katia
A2 - Eschweiler, Jennifer
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Social entrepreneurship (SE) and social innovation (SI) are relatively new responses in the repertoire of social actors as they try to react, adapt or counteract, shaped by contexts. The research approach underlying this book is to try to advance understandings of SE’s and SI’s potentials to foster social change towards more sustainability, social justice and inclusion in different contexts. The introduction offers a short conceptual review of social entrepreneurship and social innovation, and reasons in favour of community-led and democratic oriented approaches to SE and SI as well as for critical engagement with the phenomenon in teaching and higher education. After making the case for societally engaged and responsible research we point to a variety of tensions underlying SE/SI research, illustrated by the chapters if this book: 1. bridging critical engagement and output focused technical solutions in university SE and SI education; 2. Participation as normative ideal and practical challenge; 3. Business for social justice, sustainability, democracy and citizenship? 4. Efficiency and impact evaluation for better or for worse? 5. How to combine social sciences and arts and humanities to develop research-based knowledge and practices for more sustainability of all living beings. These tensions are understood as important opportunities of reflection. The introduction finished with an overview how each chapter offers research-based perspectives and conceptual advancements that critically reflect on various aspects of the SE and SI research field today.
AB - Social entrepreneurship (SE) and social innovation (SI) are relatively new responses in the repertoire of social actors as they try to react, adapt or counteract, shaped by contexts. The research approach underlying this book is to try to advance understandings of SE’s and SI’s potentials to foster social change towards more sustainability, social justice and inclusion in different contexts. The introduction offers a short conceptual review of social entrepreneurship and social innovation, and reasons in favour of community-led and democratic oriented approaches to SE and SI as well as for critical engagement with the phenomenon in teaching and higher education. After making the case for societally engaged and responsible research we point to a variety of tensions underlying SE/SI research, illustrated by the chapters if this book: 1. bridging critical engagement and output focused technical solutions in university SE and SI education; 2. Participation as normative ideal and practical challenge; 3. Business for social justice, sustainability, democracy and citizenship? 4. Efficiency and impact evaluation for better or for worse? 5. How to combine social sciences and arts and humanities to develop research-based knowledge and practices for more sustainability of all living beings. These tensions are understood as important opportunities of reflection. The introduction finished with an overview how each chapter offers research-based perspectives and conceptual advancements that critically reflect on various aspects of the SE and SI research field today.
KW - Social Entrepreneurship
KW - Social Innovation
KW - social transformation
KW - social entrepreneurs
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-47708-9
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-47708-9
M3 - Book
SN - 978-3-031-47707-2
SN - 978-3-031-47710-2
T3 - Ethical Economy
BT - Learning about Social Entrepreneurship and Management in Times of Social Transformation
PB - Springer
ER -
