Social Entrepreneurship - J Mair, J Robinson and K Hockerts (eds)

‘Social entrepreneurship’ has been something of a buzz phrase for politicians, academics and third sector practitioners for almost ten years now, yet the amount of serious research into the subject has remained stubbornly small. This is now changing and there have been five scholarly collections of papers on the subject published this year,[1] including this important collection.

The book brings together ten papers presented at the first International Social Entrepreneurship Research Conference (ISERC) held in Barcelona last year. Its main audience is clearly an academic one, though more reflective practitioners could also engage with the case studies and consultancy-style frameworks that are presented throughout.