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Taking social entrepreneurship seriously

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  • Bornstein, David. 2004.How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurship and the Power of New Ideas. New York: Oxford University Press.

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  • Dees, J. Gregory, and Beth Battle Anderson. “Sector Bending: Blurring the Lines between Nonprofit and For-Profit,”Society 40, 4, May/June 2003. Reprinted in Peter Frumkin and Jonathan B. Imber (eds.), InSearch of the Nonprofit Sector. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2004.

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  • Mosher-Williams, Rachel, ed. 2006.Research on Social Entrepreneurship: Understanding and Contributing to an Emerging Field, ARNOVA Occasional Paper Series, vol. 1, no. 3.

  • Nichols, Alex. 2006.Social Entrepreneurship: New Paradigms of Sustainable Social Change. New York: Oxford University Press.

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  • Yunus, Muhammad. 1999.Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty. New York: PublicAffairs.

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  1. Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, USA

    J. Gregory Dees (adjunct professor and faculty director of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship)

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He is co-author of Enterprising Nonprofits and Strategic Tools for Social Entrepreneurs.

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Dees, J.G. Taking social entrepreneurship seriously. Soc 44, 24–31 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02819936

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