Most social ventures cross the boundaries between the private, the public and the non-profit/voluntary sectors, and this broad involvement of actors and intertwining of sectors makes the label 'societal' entrepreneurship more appropriate. Stating the importance of both the local and the broader societal context, the book reports close-up studies from a variety of social ventures. Generic themes include positioning societal entrepreneurship against other images of collective entrepreneurship, critically penetrating its assumptions and practices and proposing ways of promoting societal entrepreneurship more widely.
Contents: Preface 1. Introduction: In the Beginning was Societal Entrepreneurship Karin Berglund and Bengt Johannisson PART I: SOCIETAL ENTREPRENEURING ACROSS SECTOR BOUNDARIES AND TIME 2. Sectorial Intertwining at the Grass Root Level Malin Tillmar 3. Tracking the Everyday Practices of Societal Entrepreneuring Bengt Johannisson 4. Narrating Astrid Lindgren's World as Societal Entrepreneurship Bengt Johannisson and Elisabeth Sundin PART II: PENETRATING SOCIETAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: DARK AND BRIGHT SIDES 5. Small Business Promotion and Intermediating as Societal Entrepreneurship Lena Andersson and Anders W. Johansson 6. Societal Entrepreneurship Contextualized: The Dark and Bright Sides of Fair Trade Birgitta Schwartz 7. Dark and Bright Effects of a Polarized Entrepreneurship Discourse and the Prospects of Transformation Karin Berglund and Anders W. Johansson PART III: SOCIETAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP FROM AN EDUCATIONAL PERSPECTIVE 8. Friends, Feelings, and Fantasy: The Entrepreneurial Approach as Conceptualized by Preschool Teachers Karin Berglund 9 Translating Entrepreneurship into the Education Setting - a Case of Societal Entrepreneurship Carina A. Holmgren 10 Academic and Non-academic Education for Societal Entrepreneurship Anders W. Johansson and Erik Rosell 11 Conclusions TBC Index
