De Gruyter Handbook of Social Entrepreneurship

Part 2: Consideration of the Environment, Conditions, and Ecosystems Contributing to Social Entrepreneurship

Overview

Part 2 focuses on the documentation and codification of the ecosystem conditions and policies conducive to social entrepreneurship activity. This section, following the farming analogy, is symbolically represented by contributors like how the fields are tilled, how the crops are rotated, what fertilizers are used in the soils, innovative irrigation techniques, sunlight, climate change, and adaptation to policies that spur or stymie growth and farming decisions (literally and figuratively). Part 2 will focus on the theoretical underpinnings of ecosystems and provide current examples of how various domains (e.g., policy, ...