Social Entrepreneurship Business Models - Incentive Strategies to Catalyze Public Goods Provision (Electronic book text)

An exploration of how social entrepreneurial organizations are able to create solutions that tackle today's global social and ecological problems. Sommerrock provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of social entrepreneurship as well as a sound theoretical foundation. She identifies incentives as a key element of social entrepreneurial value creation and details specific strategies for social value creation based on the structured analysis of actual examples of social entrepreneurial organizations. These insights are complemented by an in-depth analysis of three social entrepreneurial business models that highlight the incentive structures social entrepreneurs use to create social value. As such this book advances academic research in the field of social entrepreneurship and at the same time provides valuable inspiration for practitioners in the field.