Barinaga Ester, Social Entrepreneurship: Cases and Concepts

The book is organized in two autonomous but interrelated parts and contains sixteen chapters (eight in each part that are mirroring each other). The author choose eight topics (issues, aspects) of the management of a social entrepreneurship: starting up, scaling up, building partnership, mission drift, conflict resolution, rethinking scale, social value/social impact assessment, and application for funds. Each of these issues is illustrated in the first part of the book (Cases in Social Entrepreneurship) using the technique of the ‘‘case study’’ narrative, taking as an example a ‘‘real’’ case of a ‘‘concrete’’ social enterprise in Stockholm. However, in the second part of the book (Concepts in Social Entrepreneurship) the same topics are analyzed from a more theoretical point of view implying some key sociological concepts, such as actor-network theory and symbolic capital, framing processes and social movements, embeddedness and economic quantification, logic of fields and conflicts, interest and rationality, networks and social capital, valuation of performance, and theory of change.