Potentials for Business, Social Entrepreneurship, Welfare and Civil Society

Section: Management including Cross-Project Activities, Institut, Work and Equal Opportunities

This book, edited by Hans-Werner Franz, Josef Hochgerner and Jürgen Howaldt, is based on major contributions to the famous conference 'Challenge Social Innovation' of September 2011, which immediately produced the influential 'Vienna Declaration: The Most Relevant Topics in Social Innovation Research'.

Now a reader with 22 contributions on sections concerning social innovation theory, social innovations in the service sector, on social innovation and welfare, social entrepreneurship, workplace innovation, open innovation and social meadia, measuring social innovation, and on social innovation and the social sciences is available in bookshops and as an e-Book, published bei Springer.

There are two introductory notes (forewords) by Agnés Hubert (BEPA/European Commission) and Antonella Noya (OECD Forum on Social Innovations), highlighting the relevance of concepts and practices of social innovation on the one hand, and the commitments to Social Innovation made by the Commission as
part of the EU2020 strategy and OECD's interest to 'go social to give the people hope, confidence and perspectives' on the other hand.

Hans-Werner Franz, Josef Hochgerner, Jürgen Howaldt (eds): 
Challenge Social Innovation. Potentials for Business, Social Entrepreneurship, Welfare and Civil Society 
Springer Heidelberg, New York, Dordrecht, London, 2012.
ISBN 978-3-642-32878-7, ISBN 978-3-642-32879-4 (e-book), DOI 10.1007/978-642-32879-4

With contributions of Jo Barraket, Andrea Bassi, Birgit Blättel-Mink, Anne de Bruin, StuartConger, Peter Cressey, Anup Dash, Alexander Degelsegger, Steven Dhondt, Faridah Djellal, Rosemary Exton, Hans-Werner Franz, Craig Furneaux, Faïz Gallouj, Bjørn Gustavson, Denis Harrisson, Rolf G. Heinze, Josef Hochgerner, JürgenHowaldt, Heike Jacobsen, Milena Jostmeier, Daniel Kahnert, Karoliln Eva Kappler, Alexander Kesselring,  Christoph Kaletka, Ralph Kopp, Flavia Martinelli, Ralphael Menez, Geoff Mulgan, Gerhard Naegele, Peter Oeij, Bastian Pelka, Frank Pot, Ricard Ruiz de Querol, György Széll, Peter Totterdill, Werner Wobbe and introductions by Agnès Hubert (European Commission) and Antonella Noya (OECD).

For detailed information by the publisher please follow this link.

Authors: Hochgerner (external Senior Advisor), J., Franz, Hans-Werner; Howaldt, Jürgen (eds.)

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