Social Innovation and Sustainable Entrepreneurship

Download or read book Social Innovation and Sustainable Entrepreneurship written by Maritza I. Espina and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid and formative rise in research on social innovation and entrepreneurship means that theoretical frameworks are still being created, while traditional notions of economic efficiency and social welfare are tested. The field is progressing fastest in the measurement and measuring of social entrepreneurial effectiveness. Social innovators, who draw from philanthropy, as well as capital markets, for financial resources, have adopted the lean start up as a paradigm for their organization logics.