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Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part IV: Organizational Structures and Hybrid Organizations for Social Enterprises -- Chapter 17: Legal Structures Available to Social Enterprises: An Overview -- Chapter 18: Examining the Ethics of Organizational Legal Forms: Lessons from the Social Enterprise Movement -- Chapter 19: The "Benefit Corporation": A Viable Option for Social Entrepreneurs? -- Chapter 20: International Case Studiesin Social Entrepreneurship: A Focus on Brazil -- Chapter 21: Aquamariner Project: A Path for Food Self-Reliance? -- Chapter 22: ECO Kitchen -- Chapter 23: Worksheet for "Organizational Structures and Hybrid Organizations for Social Enterprises" -- Part V: Mobilizing Resources to Fund Social Ventures -- Chapter 24: Financing Modes of Social Entrepreneurship -- Chapter 25: Microfinance: Models and Implications for Social Entrepreneurship -- Chapter 26: Crowdfunding -- Chapter 27: What's on the Menu? Feeding Your Social Enterprise -- Chapter 28: How to Crowdfund Your Venture -- Chapter 29: Communicating for Funding -- Chapter 30: Volu: Validating the Business Case -- Chapter 31: Worksheet for "Mobilizing Resources to Fund Social Ventures" -- Part VI: Scaling the Social Venture -- Chapter 32: Systems Thinking for the Social Entrepreneur -- Chapter 33: Made in Carcere: Scaling a Social Enterprise Business Model -- Chapter 34: Dairy Processing Social Venture among the Maasai in Northern Tanzania -- Chapter 35: Worksheet for "Scaling the Social Venture" -- Part VII: Ecopreneuring as Social Enterprises -- Chapter 36: Wholly Frijoles -- Chapter 37: Creating a Business Model for Recycled Materials -- Chapter 38: Gongali Nano Filter for Rural Water Purification -- Chapter 39: Worksheet for "Ecopreneuring as Social Enterprises" -- Resources -- About the Authors -- Additional Readings -- Index -- Adpage -- Backcover.

Educating Social Entrepreneurs: From Idea Generation to Business Plan Formulation appears at the time of unprecedented environmental disasters, natural resources depletion and significant failure of governments and global business to attend social problems occurring around the globe. In the world of downsizing, restructuring and social changes, notions of traditional venture creation and the ways of creating social values have been challenged. Drawing from contributions by scholars of social entrepreneurship from Europe, North and South America, and Africa, this edited volume reveals interdisciplinarity of entrepreneurship research. To assist the readers, students, and teachers in understanding some dilemmas of our time, the contributors to these collections adopt an array of theoretical frameworks that all examine a multitude of societal and business issues in which the social entrepreneur surfaces. This Social Entrepreneurship book draws examples from various parts of the global business world and various societies and prepares students, scholars, and entrepreneurial managers to deal with the challenges presented by a new and diverse business environment. It is our belief that these two volumes endorse the importance of social entrepreneurship in the competitive business landscape and prepare students of business and other faculties to create their own business plan for a social venture. Illuminating troublesome aspects of the global social and business worlds, this Social Entrepreneurship book comprises two volumes and covers key issues such as defining social entrepreneurship; contexts for social entrepreneurship; pitching and communicating social opportunities; and also implementing social opportunities that covers the areas of organizational structures and hybrid organization for social enterprises; mobilizing resources to fund social ventures; scaling the social ventures; and ecopreneuring as social enterprises. Students, scholars, and entrepreneurs who want to prepare themselves to help the poverty-stricken world and deal with social entrepreneurship will find this to be beneficial reading.

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Defining Social Entrepreneurship -- Chapter 1: Social Entrepreneuring: "What's Good for Society Is Also Good for Business" -- Chapter 2: I Think Therefore I Am … Social Entrepreneurial Identity and Network Development -- Chapter 3: Purpose versus Profits -- Chapter 4: Free Geek Toronto: Tradeoffs in Open Source and Triple Bottom Line Organizations -- Chapter 5: Worksheet for "Defining Social Entrepreneurship" -- Part II: Contexts for Social Entrepreneurs -- Chapter 6: Recognizing and Reframing Social Problems into Business Opportunities: MECE and Value Chain Analysis -- Chapter 7: The Significance of Stakeholders in Social Enterprises -- Chapter 8: Creating Social Value -- Chapter 9: The Organizational Form Design Studio -- Chapter 10: Beyond the Business Case -- Chapter 11: Worksheet for "Contexts for Social Entrepreneurs" -- Part III: Recognizing, Pitching, and Communicating Social Opportunities -- Chapter 12: Best Social Enterprise Pitch Competition -- Chapter 13: Mapping Stakeholders and Developing Communication Strategies -- Chapter 14: Marketing a Social Enterprise: Generating Questions to Construct Observation Experiences -- Chapter 15: Soup-On-The-Go: Joni's Soup Fellowship -- Chapter 16: Worksheet for "Recognizing, Pitching, and Communicating Social Opportunities" -- Resources -- About the Authors -- Additional Readings -- Index -- Adpage -- Backcover.

One of the persistent problems facing corporate governance is the increasing shift toward knowledge‐intensive organisations. This article focuses on the fiduciary responsibility of corporate governance for creating, developing, and leveraging the intellectual capital existing and embedded in the people, structures, and processes of the firm. Research and practice, traditionally concerned with governance responsibility for financial and physical capitals, has not much focused on the relations between governance and intellectual capital. Here, the authors' intellectual capital paradigm is overlayered on a recent taxonomy of systems and features of corporate governance. The result is an explication of the role and characteristics of corporate governance in relation to the intellectual capital of the firm.

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to generate an empirically informed theoretical framework which can be used to analyze the relationship between gender and innovation in the context of a municipality. The authors present and analyze three illustrative tales from a feminist perspective. The authors thus offer a more balanced approach to the conceptualization of gendered ascriptions with respect to the possible outcomes of innovation work in a public context.Design/methodology/approachAn ethnographic account which employed "shadowing" as a method of observation.FindingsThe article presents a debate on how the social construction of gender and innovation can be placed in the context of a municipal reality. Our analysis reveals how the complexities of a gendered work life within a municipality can create paradoxes. A constructionism approach was used in the identification of hidden and unspoken paradoxes that exist in public spheres.Research limitations/implicationsThe authors used empirical tales from a very specific context, namely a Swedish municipality. The central implication of this study is the recognition of innovation as being masculine-gendered within the feminine context. This implication thereby deepens our understanding of gender paradoxes in the public sector.Practical implicationsThis study provides insights to practitioners who intend to work with innovation in a public organization.Social implicationsThe social implications of this study is that when a male-gendered concept like innovation is implemented in a female-gendered context, like a municipality, it is of importance to contextualize the concept.Originality/valueThe empirical value of examples of a gendered work landscape at a Swedish municipality.

Purpose
The purpose of this study is to examine how women entrepreneurs are building embeddedness into male-gendered fields and how they are creating embedding in such fields in practice.


Design/methodology/approach
The qualitative methodology and three indicative case stories within gastronomic industry are illustrated and analysed.


Findings
The contribution of this study lies in the examination of the multifaceted embedding building process from dis-embedded, marginalised and suppressed position by women entrepreneurs. This was achieved with the help of building embedding through two strategies: sameness, that is, becoming one of the boys and then becoming a challenger, thereby enhancing their professional position.


Research limitations/implications
The study is subject to limitations; a small sample is not suited for the generalizability of results. The most important implication of this study is the identification of the process of building embeddedness as the most critical resource for women's entrepreneurship that should be supported by the scholarly and business community.


Originality/value
The theoretical framework developed for this study laid the foundation for developing literature on the embeddedness of women's entrepreneurship and how the process of creating embedding becomes instrumental in business ownership.