Social Entrepreneurship: An Evidence-Based Approach to Creating Social Value

CONCLUSION: THE ROAD TRAVELED AND THE JOURNEY AHEAD

This book set out to provide a critical overview and assessment of the rapidly growing field of social entrepreneurship, and to offer social entrepreneurs and innovators the necessary knowledge, tools, and skillsets to tackle some of the most difficult problems in our society.

We have taken a theory-based approach that draws extensively on the existing entrepreneurship and innovation literatures. In particular, we have followed the spirit of evidence-based management to educate current and future social entrepreneurs in evidence-based practices. We believe that such an approach is most effective not only in helping students understand the potentials and limits of social entrepreneurship but ...