Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- PART I: VALUES IN SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP -- Vision and Values: the relationship between the visions and actions of social entrepreneurs; P. Grenier -- Religion and Social Entrepreneurship; R. Spear -- Divergent orientations in social entrepreneurship organizations; H. Douglas -- PART II: RESOURCES FOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP -- Towards a Theory of Social Entrepreneurship; J. P. Eshun and J. A. Robinson -- Is It Ever Better To Lend Than To Give? : A Social Embeddedness View Of Alternative Approaches to Poverty Alleviation; B. Victor and W. Lucas -- PART III: DISCOVERY AND EXPLOITATION OF SOCIAL OPPORTUNITIES -- Developing an Interactive Model of Social Entrepreneurship; C. Vurro and F. Perrini -- Social entrepreneurship: A study on the source and discovery of social opportunities; J. Monllor -- Entrepreneurial Opportunity Evaluation: A Discrete Choice Analysis of Financial and Social Entrepreneurial Opportunity Attributes; B. R. Smit, J. Kickul and F. Wilson -- PART IV: STRATEGIC SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP -- The Function of Metrics in Social Entrepreneurship: Control, Accountability, or Innovation? A. Nicholls -- Strategic Partnerships: Results from a Survey of Development Trusts in the UK; H. Haugh, M. Di Domenico and P. Tracey -- The Thread of Inchoate Demand in Social Entrepreneurship; J. G. York, S. D. Sarasvathy and A. Larson -- Social Entrepreneurship: Snapshots of a Research Field in Emergence; G. Desa -- PART V: -- A resource-based view of value creation in social purpose business ventures; N. Moray and R. Stevens -- Cases in Grassroots of Social Entrepreneurship; S. Maase and K. Dorst.

"Over the past years social entrepreneurship has grown as a research field. In this third edited volume we have collected contributions studying particularly questions of values in Social Entrepreneurship as well as the identification and exploitation of Social Venturing Opportunities"-- Provided by publisher.