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Social Entrepreneurship and Grand Challenges

Navigating Layers of Disruption from COVID-19 and Beyond

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Authors:
  1. Emilio Costales

    1. School of Business and Management, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK

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  2. Anica Zeyen

    1. School of Business and Management, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK

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  • Discusses the role of social entrepreneurs as potential agents for positive social change

  • Explores the role of space, imaginary, and communication in social entrepreneurship

  • Illustrates through a range of diverse case studies

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Social Entrepreneurship and Grand Challenges

    • Emilio Costales, Anica Zeyen
    Pages 1-16

  3. Social Entrepreneurship, Grand Challenges and Crisis: What We Know So Far

    • Emilio Costales, Anica Zeyen
    Pages 17-32

  4. Social Systems and Modern Society

    • Emilio Costales, Anica Zeyen
    Pages 33-49

  5. Spaces and Places from the Imagination to Reality: The Case of the Global COVID-19 Spatial Lockdowns

    • Emilio Costales, Anica Zeyen
    Pages 51-77

  6. Deconstructing Social Entrepreneurship and its Role in Society

    • Emilio Costales, Anica Zeyen
    Pages 79-98

  7. The Sustainable Development Goals, Complexity, and Errors of the Third Kind

    • Emilio Costales, Anica Zeyen
    Pages 99-116

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 117-120
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About this book

This book illustrates how social entrepreneurship can be used as a tool for addressing grand challenges. Combining leading theoretical insights with rigorous empirical methodologies, the book is the result of field work with 17 social entrepreneurs in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom at various points during the COVID-19 pandemic. Adopting a highly innovative theoretical synthesis to discuss the role of social entrepreneurs as potential agents for positive social change, the book introduces the sociomateriality of space, Luhmann’s systems theory, and the social imaginary as missing building blocks in which disruption is created and navigated for creating positive social change. Concluding with a chapter that focuses on the practicalities of meeting the Sustainable Development Goals, the authors extend scholarship in social entrepreneurship and provide a comprehensive account of insights gained from the pandemic, demonstrating how these insights can enable the navigation of further grand challenges.

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Business and Management, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK

    Emilio Costales, Anica Zeyen

About the authors

Emilio Costales is a PhD candidate at the School of Business and Management at Royal Holloway University of London (UK). His research examines the role of Social Entrepreneurship in the development of Smart Cities and is heavily involved with Systems Theory and Social Innovation. 

Anica Zeyen is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Entrepreneurship and Sustainability at the School of Business and Management at Royal Holloway University of London (UK). Anica’s research focusses on disability-related topics. Specifically, Anica investigates how (social) entrepreneurship supports societal inclusion of disabled people.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Social Entrepreneurship and Grand Challenges

  • Book Subtitle: Navigating Layers of Disruption from COVID-19 and Beyond

  • Authors: Emilio Costales, Anica Zeyen

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07450-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07449-3Published: 24 August 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-07450-9Published: 23 August 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 120

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Entrepreneurship

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